WE’RE GETTING MARRIED!

We officially met through mutual friends when we went caving together in summer of 2019. We didn’t start to get to know each other until right after quarantine, as my family started to host fire get togethers, game nights, and pool days. When Reuben asked me out, we had just gotten back from soccer with our friends. As we pulled up to my house, he asked me how my sisters and I would want a guy, who was interested in us, to approach our dad about dating us. I wasn’t sure how to answer that so I began to ramble on a bit. He then said, “You know I like you, right?” Not hearing him at first, I kept on rambling...Once it registered, I looked at him and said, “Wait, like for real for real?” I definitely was not expecting him to say that. I told him that the Lord was teaching me some valuable life lessons that I felt I needed to grasp hold of before getting into a relationship. He said that he wanted to ask me out and see what I thought before he went and officially asked for my dad’s permission to intentionally date me. Reuben said that if we were to start dating, he wanted to treat me with the utmost purity—physically and emotionally, like I was to be someone else’s future wife. I made him wait, almost a month, without an answer from me. On May 29, 2020, Reuben went to my parents to ask about dating me. (Yes, that's exactly one year to the date of when we get married and when we will have our first kiss!) When he talked to them, he said that he wanted to pursue me and see if God was leading us to marriage. To my surprise, they said yes. I was thinking that I would need to bring him around for 3-4 years as a friend to get to know him better before starting to date... if my mom had it her way, that’s probably how it would have played out! (I love you mama!) But thankfully, that didn’t happen. God has used us to encourage one another in our personal relationship with Christ. With God's help, I am ready to marry this man and to do life alongside him, serving the Lord.