We met on a mission trip to Cuba. Really, it was the third to last day. During the proposal of another couple on the trip with us, everybody piled onto one side of the bus we were on to get a look and Lily just so happened to sit next to me. She introduced herself and talked on the ride back to where the team was staying. Later that evening at dinner she sat at my table, and we had a long conversation that included her asking me a ton of questions just to get to know me. Pretty much after that night, we sat next to or close to each other various times the remainder of the trip. Once we got back home, I told her I enjoyed getting to know her and she invited me up to Fayetteville with some others to visit during the summer! The rest of the summer we really got to know each other and really fell for one another. The next 3 years we had our ups and downs, but we learned, grew and realized that we couldn’t picture our lives without each other.