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I was 12 years old when a family moved in to the neighborhood, and with them an 11 year old brother and 12 year old sister. I remember running around with these new friends and the neighborhood kids in the summertime playing and having fun, but unknown to me at the time, the 11 year old brother had a crush on me! (Fast forward and this sister is my best friend and MOH and this brother is the love of my life and fiancee!) Five years after that summer of kickball, and one day, I receive a message online from a guy named Ben. He politely introduces himself as the neighbor I've met a few times. I was a little at loss for someone who apparently remembered me but who I did not really know! I was a bit hesitant on getting to know this kind and spirited 16 year old boy, but hundreds of messages later and getting to know Ben in person, we become best friends! And through Ben and his family I learn about Jesus, and give my heart to Him! A beautiful plan the Lord had all along for me that I am eternally grateful for! Shortly after becoming best friends, we can't deny that this closeness developed into something more, a true love for one another, and before we know it, we are officially dating. And even though it sadly ended too soon and we went our separate ways, God was not done writing our story! Years passed, and a message every now and then of "how are you?" And "happy birthday" came and went but nothing more than that. While I focused on my walk with the Lord and prayed for my future husband, I also prayed for Bens heart to come back to Jesus. Its October of 2022, and Ben is being put on my heart. I was unsure why at the time, but felt so strongly God's fingerprints were on this! Some time later it's March 2023 and I am still leaning into God and praying for Ben. Still unsure of whats going on, I lift him up to the Lord one specific night and then decide to release him into Jesus' hands from my heart and mind. I then felt the desire to ask God that night for my future husband. Interestingly enough... That next morning, I wake up and see "Benjamin Holley" on my phone notifications, reaching out to me. I remember feeling absoultely shocked at the timing of it all! It had been years since we spoke or saw each other. I felt so shocked at the confirmation from the Lord as well that there was a reason he had been put on my heart a lot for the past few months! Looking in retrospect God's timing, as always, was so precise & perfect, that there is no other way to make sense of it other than God in His kindness and goodness had a plan all along. His signature will forever be stamped on our love story! We are beyond grateful that He had something beautiful in store for us without us ever planning or knowing!

I was a young, eleven year old boy when my family moved to Pflugerville. It didn't take long for my sister, Amanda, and I to get to know and play with some of the neighborhood kids our age. One of these kids was none other than Gabrielle Nina Smith. From the very beginning, when we would play kickball and tag, I thought she was so beautiful and always had a crush on her. Fast forward, we are in high-school now and have become best of friends. We talk constantly and know everything about each other. This eventually turned into us dating and going to prom together! Things ended up falling apart in my life and I ran from it all, including Nina. I always loved her and wished things had been different, but did not live a life that would allow that to happen. I fell away from the Lord and the faith and struggled and battled through life. I never did stop loving the beautiful human; Nina. Eventually, after almost 10 years, I began to open my heart back up to Christ. I was unhappy and dissatisfied with how life was on my own power. The Lord started working in mysterious and powerful ways. He caused dreams and visions in me that led me back to Nina. He showed me what happiness could be in store for me and the blessings he wanted to give us. It was around March, in 2023, almost ten years from when we first started dating and said "I love you" that I reached out to her and we began talking again. It was as if no time passed. We fell in love so quickly again, we kept referring to it all as a hurricane. It was like we were best friends again, almost right from the start. We met up and spent hours together, yet I felt like I blinked and it was over. I couldn't get enough. We continued talking and meeting up, and only a short time later we were dating. We spent sun up to sun down together on a beautiful day and at the end of the day at sun set, I asked her to be my girlfriend. She said yes and I made a promise to her. I am dating you so that I can marry you. My entire purpose of asking her to date, was to marry her. I eventually made the promise that I would marry her in a year. Now we arrive at April 24th, 2024.