we're getting married!

We met on May 27, 2022, at a Memorial Day Weekend get together hosted by our dear friends, the Galloway family and Nicole Erickson. Though it was not love at first sight, Andy messaged me a week after we met. I was very hesitant but my best friend, Raelin, told me to just go for it. "After all, what's the worst that can happen?" Andy and I talked the entire summer and I went back and forth on whether I was interested in him. But I had prayed that if he was the one, that he would be persistent. And he was nothing if not persistent. Toward August, I was beginning to fall for him. We started video chatting and reading the Bible together in the evenings, and I developed strong feelings, but was still hesitant. Then, he invited me to Malcolm convention, and we met up in person for the first time since we’d met in May. After a wonderful convention weekend we decided to start dating. Fast forward a couple months, and I knew he was the one I was going to marry. There was no particular moment that it hit, instead it just kind of snuck up on me, this feeling that he was the one God had in mind for me. We periodically discussed getting married, and Andy bought our rings. He came down to visit my family during my college winter break. Like a gentleman he asked for my father's permission. Of course my dad said yes, and so on January 6, 2023, he got down on one knee and said, "I love you. I love you so much, in fact, that I want to spend the rest of my life with you. Sophia Ann Wostrel, will you marry me?" Obviously I said "yes," and now we have a lifetime of love to look forward to! <3 -Sophia