Three springs ago, both of us decided to go on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land with a group called FOCUS: Fellowship of Catholic University Students. We each had missionaries at our respective campuses that were leaders of the trip, which is how we found out about the opportunity. There were students from other states as well, 3 seminarians from Boston, and a priest from South Dakota that joined, too! We spent a week in Israel, taking in many sites where Jesus walked and performed miracles. It was an incredible experience that shaped our Christian Catholic faith, especially as Jacob was in RCIA to enter the Catholic church that April. Everyone on the trip became so close and we figured out our schools were only half an hour away from each other! A date happened that summer and the rest is history...