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February 1, 2020
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Carinna & Daniel

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Daniel Penn

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Carinna Burnett

February 1, 2020

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

How God gave us the gift of each other

Here is a short version of a wonderful story :). Daniel is from Missouri and I (Carinna) am from Oklahoma so who would have thought that we would meet in CO?! We met the fall of 2017 on the Ellerslie campus at a discipleship course we both were taking. We spent about 10 lovely days on campus altogether, although we didn't have a lot interaction. We do both remember crossing paths some, mainly that we sat on the same row in sessions a few chairs apart, and that we were the only ones NOT from the North. : ) We have more things we both remember about each other and some things only one of us remembers and other doesn't, but we do remember both being there with the intention of knowing Jesus and intentionally focusing on Him and growing our relationship with Him,...not on meeting someone. We ended up following each other on social media a couple months later, but that was nothing special...we didn't talk or anything. The summer of 2018 I had a close family friend pass away in a car accident, 6 weeks later Daniel's brother passed away in a car accident. Similar stories in that they left a spouse and young child behind...needless to say we both were freshly shaken with the brevity of life. Through this similar life experience, we ended up messaging each other. This turned into several weeks of encouraging each other to live this short time on earth well, to love our Jesus with everything, to not get comfortable here on this earth... and well, we never really stopped :). That fall Daniel approached my Dad...the next spring Daniel and I started some pretty "intense" email correspondence. We sent emails full of lots of questions, following them up with video calls to discuss a wide range of topics. September 29th, 2019 my best friend and a man I greatly admire asked me to marry him! Here we are today, excited for you to join in witnessing our covenant with each other and with God, and in celebration of God's amazing design of marriage!

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