Hi, Natalie here. I love telling our story! We met when I was a freshman, and Devin was a junior at Southern Adventist University at a small group Friday night vespers. We both remember thinking we really wanted to get to know each other better. Our interest in each other ended up developing into a really sweet friendship. We would watch movies together, get coffee downtown, and even got to go to a few concerts! Devin graduated in May 2019 and took a call pastoring in Asheville, North Carolina (only three hours away from Southern). I came back to Southern in Fall 2019 after spending four months at home in Colorado, and within a few weeks of seeing each other in person again we realized our friendship had deepened into something really special. We fell in love without even trying! Since then, we've navigated dating short and long distances during COVID. We're so excited to get married and have a built in best friend for life.