Jake was excited to return to a place he loved and reunite with people he missed. Katy was excited to leave the country for the first time on a trip of a lifetime. While they were excited for a trip to Hungary, God had some big plans in the works. Katy and Jake were on the sports team together. This means that they planned, facilitated, and played games with hundreds of Hungarian children each day. Katy noticed Jake's hardworking spirit, compassion for others, and how good he looked in his BRIGHT pink t-shirt. Jake noticed Katy on the first team meeting months before. Throughout the trip, they laughed, served, and competed in an epic step count competition that Jake won every day. When they returned, they continued to talk through the business of college and student leadership. Jake was getting ready to graduate and Katy was preparing for a trip around the world. A year after they got back from the trip, they decided to catch up and go see Spider-Man: Far From Home. That was the date that started it all (even if Katy did not know it was a date until Jake bought frozen yogurt after the movie). Even with Katy leaving the country in less than a month, they both knew that this relationship would be something special and worth pursuing through extreme long-distance and time zone differences. Long story short, they were right.