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Moira:&nbsp;Almost 3 years ago, Parker and I met through an on campus ministry group called Cru. I was a piano player for the worship team, and Parker commonly hosted the weekly meetings. Even though we were in the same ministry group and both helped lead weekly meetings, we really didn't start talking to each other until we both went to Fall Getaway, a ministry retreat.&nbsp; Parker:&nbsp;Whoah, Whoah, Whoah it definitely started before Fall Getaway! Let me start it. I had just gotten back from an internship in South Carolina. I missed my friends over the summer, and getting back I began to learn a lot about myself and God. I finally had longer than 3 months in Kalamazoo and felt like I had matured enough to try and find a girlfriend. Moira was on my list, and after fall getaway she shot right to the top!&nbsp;

Parker: The only trouble is when we got back I couldn't catch Moira long enough to ask her out on a date! At Cru's Thursday Nights I would keep an eye out for her and try to catch her before she left. After a couple of weeks of not seeing her there... Moira: (Because I was on gone for multiple Geology camping trips) Parker: ...because she was gone for Geology, seeing her only briefly at Applebees, or totally missing her I was getting restless. I REALLY wanted to hang out with this girl! My roommate David offered to ask her if she wanted to come to a hockey game, and just happened to mention that I would be there (very smooth David). Moira: Yes! David being the ultimate (and very obvious) wingman helped clue me in on Parker's interest. I went of course, and although we may have talked to each other more than actually watching the game, I had a really fun time! At the very end of the night when I was walking to my car, Parker jogged over and finally asked me for my number, and we planned our first date: Getting boba and watching "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"

Moira: We spent the next few weeks hanging out a lot. Many nights were spent sitting on my couch, where we would talk, laugh, and ask a lot of questions about each other until the wee hours of the morning. During this time, I realized that Parker was like no one I had ever met before. He was many things, but I remember being wowed about how thoughtful, emotional, and at how good at listening he was. Parker: Moira and I talked long and hard about a lot of things. I remember thinking about how deep of a thinker she was, how good her questions were, and about how she was so funny and lived her life with so much whimsy. I knew I didn't want to let this one get away. I planned a date to take her skiing and we spent the whole day together. By the end of it we had decided to go "official" with it! Moira: For someone who's never been skiing before, I was a natural. That day continues to be one of my most favorite days we've ever had. We spent the whole day laughing, whether it was when Parker was doing fun tricks on the slopes, or whenever I fell. For lunch, Parker had packed us a picnic and even brought a bottle of tums incase I got a stomach ache. It was that day that I figured out I loved him, I had spent the whole day with him and I still wasn't sick of him by the end of the night!

Parker: The next semester we grew a lot, learned about being in a committed relationship, and started making (or maybe just started to notice) some mistakes, but the Lord was working on us that season and taught me a lot about being a Christ Follower and about the things I still hadn't yet given to Him. Moira: Yes, there was a lot of making mistakes, learning, and growing that semester. We were both in some pretty tough classes that semester, and we had to learn how to balance school schedules, campus clubs, time with each other, time with other people, and sleep. But that semester was filled with a lot of fun dates that celebrated milestones and big life achievements. Parker: Over that semester we also began to prepare for our first stretch of time apart! I would spend that summer at camp and Moira would have her internship. It would be tough but we would make it!

Moira: Long distance is never easy, but we made it work! Even though I didn't get to hear from Parker during the week because of camp, I sent him lots of letters and we passed journals back and forth with notes in them to read throughout the week for each other. On weekends one of us would either drive up to Holland or down to Kalamazoo to visit one another. Parker: That summer was so fun! I can't say how thankful I am that I got to work at Camp Geneva that summer, and the Lord taught me so much in that time, and I just expected to have fun loving on the campers that came through my cabin! By the end of the summer we were excited to be together again, and after our 6 month anniversary we began to talk more and more about what our future looked like together!

Parker: That Fall we hit the ground running, and with the advent of Fall Engineering Expo I began thinking about my summer time internship placement! We talked about where we might lived if we were to get married and so on and so forth! What an exciting, crazy, and nerve wracking time. We did a lot of living that next year: cars broke down, Moira graduated, weddings attended, excursions traveled, friendships forged, and events big and small along the way. We kept on learning how to be in community and how to point each other towards God in ways big and small. Moira: Yes, we lived life! Looking back, I think we spent a lot of our first year together simply learning how to love each other, what works and what doesn't. After our first year, I'd say we shifted our focus on still learning how to love each other, but also learning how to love on others, and figuring out what that looks like too. During that spring semester I graduated with my bachelors and I received an offer to continue at WMU for my masters! More to come!

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