The Thompsons

I first met Logan at Cru, a campus ministry at the University in Eau Claire. It was my first time attending one of the weekly meetings and she was up front singing for worship. I certainly took notice of her and her beautiful singing voice. We talked a little bit afterwards and remained acquaintances for the next year. At this time, I was on the sound system team at Cru and Logan took on the role as the worship leader. Once she found out about my musical abilities, she had me playing music for worship along with her. We went to a worship conference with some other friends of ours and I got to hear her sing again. It was at that conference that I realized I wanted to be more than just her friend. We continued to be friends and I got to know her more and more, especially at a Cru Winter Conference, where I got to meet some of her family. Fast forward to May 8, 2023, where we were playing some games with some friends of ours. After finally conquering my nervousness to ask, and with some help, I asked Logan out on a date. It must not have been a complete disaster because she said yes to another date after that, and then more still! We dated with an end goal of marriage in mind until September of 2024, when I asked Logan to marry me. Since then, we've grown to know each other more and more each day and I am looking forward to the day I get to call her my wife!

I distinctly remember meeting Ethan in college during one night at Cru, our college ministry. It was Sept 17, 2021 and after leading worship, I was helping to pack up the instruments and Ethan saw a place to help and came and took the piano I was carrying from me. It was his first time there, but anyone who knows Ethan knows he looks for every opportunity to help, and he saw one. While I’m not someone who normally gets flustered by guys, Ethan, I did. I tried asking his name and what he was going to school for, etc. and when I only got Ethan’s infamous one word answers, I thought, “Wow this guy either really isn’t interested in me, or, he has a girlfriend he is very loyal to”. (Come to find out it was neither, but rather, his nervousness to talk to me). Flash forward and Ethan, still always looking for where to help, started volunteering with sound for worship because it’s where help was needed. As we continued to serve together, I learned Ethan had musical talent and I basically forced him to go beyond just sound and join team and sing/play guitar/play cajon in front of 100 students. We became friends and as I looked to graduate college, I swore my husband wasn’t in Eau Claire and was looking to move across the State. Before graduating, I went to Cru’s winter conference in the cities one last time. While there, Ethan and I genuinely talked for the first time while I was trying to help Ethan find his car he forgot where he parked in downtown Minneapolis (we drove around for over 2 hours looking when the whole time it was in the garage I pointed out multiple times that he swore it wasn’t in). We got to talk and laugh, and, that was the first time I realized I might have a genuine interest in this guy. Through the weekend, Ethan hung out with me, my twin siblings, my cousin Trayton, and one of my best friends, Grace as we played jackbox games, got to share the gospel in the streets of Minneapolis, worship with 1,000 cru students, and join a spike ball tournament. I realized at this point, no guy hangs out with a girl and her family if he’s not interested. After the conference, as I was driving back to my hometown, my brother said to me, “I think you need to marry someone like Ethan”. For anyone who knows my brother and I’s relationship, it has been everything but sappy. So to hear this from him, I knew it mattered. Ethan and I texted for a few weeks before I stopped hearing back. The next few months I followed the Lords guidance to stay in Eau Claire instead of moving cross state. One Thursday, I came back to Cru to watch a friend speak and I swear I watched Ethan’s eyes widen. The guy I thought stopped texting me because he wasn’t interested really just thought I moved. We began finding ways to hang out in groups of friends and eventually one on one as we continued to get to know one another. Finally one day while playing spike ball with friends, I decided I needed to ask Ethan what the heck was happening. I walked up to him ready to ask if we were friends or more but my nervousness got the best of me and I almost barfed on his shoes. I abruptly yelled “BYE” and ran to my car leaving Ethan confused. The chicken I am texted him and asked what we were because the butterflies in my stomach were taking over. Ethan asked to meet me in person where he finally asked me out saying “I’ve been trying to ask you out since October of last year but I keep chickening out. I was actually going to ask you after spike ball but you abruptly ran away”. What timing. The next year and a half of dating was so blissful to get to know the quiet mystery Ethan is. His humor, wittiness, wisdom, and thoughtfulness continue to surprise me every day. I have never met someone who serves others like Jesus so joyfully. They say the second most important decision you make, after choosing to follow Jesus, is who you marry. Even so, saying Yes to Ethan’s proposal was so easy. I feel honored and blessed to have such a man as my husband