We’re getting married!

We met in Hawaii while doing missions with Youth With A Mission — I was in a discipleship school, and Luke was learning to sail. I liked him early on (and tried to avoid him), but he didn’t catch on until a friend told him. In the last few weeks, we started spending time together, and it quickly became something special. Soon after, I went to Cambodia for missions, and he sailed to French Polynesia — oceans apart, but somehow still finding our way back to each other.

Luke surprised me with a trip back to Hawaii, where we first met. One night, he took me to the same beach where we’d once danced under the stars and tiki torches — the place he was so nervous he could barely hold my hand. There, with the waves and the starlight all around us, he asked me to marry him. It couldn’t have been more perfect.