The story of how Faith and I met isn’t a super long one, but I figured I’d tell y’all how I had the catch of a lifetime with this beautiful, amazing woman I get to marry. In my freshman year of college, I was doing the basic freshman things. Hanging with friends, going to football practice, waking up late, staying up later. At Furman, we were fortunate enough to have the baseball field right outside the freshman dorms. So I stroll out there one day, soaking up the sun with some of my buddies, and I spot this drop-dead gorgeous girl sitting on the first base side. Next thing I know, she comes walking over with a teammate of mine. He introduces us (shout out Hamp). I catch her name, and that’s about it. She walks away with some of her friends. I stay to watch the rest of the game with mine. The next morning she sits next to me in the dining hall. I am dressed to the nine’s in my finest PJ’s and flannel, and she is in her Sunday best. I thought in my head, “Why in the world is she sitting next to me at breakfast right now?” So we small-talk a little before we part ways. I have yet to get her “digits” to reach out. Freshman move. Two weeks later, the infamous COVID outbreak happens, and my chances go from slim to none. When everyone returns to campus in the fall of 2020, my friend Hamp (I really owe you one) asks me to borrow my truck and my small muscles to help move his girlfriend and friend into their apartment. So I drive to the storage unit where he told me, and there is Faith. Wow. Felt like God giving me a tap on the butt, telling me to get in the game. So, after a short afternoon moving furniture from a storage unit to their apartment, the kind ladies of Apartment Building E tell us that they’re going to invite us over for dinner to thank us. Don’t mind if I do. So after more talking and eating Mexican food, I finally acquired the contact information. Took me long enough. About a week later, she is studying for a test in a class I already took, so I offer to help her study. That’s where I learned that not everyone knows how to say words like “occipital” and “olecranon”. Another week passes, and I FINALLY ask her out to get some ice cream. I figured it would be a quick hour date, get to know each other, because we both had to study for a test coming up. 3 hours later, sitting at a picnic table, I learned that Faith didn’t eat ice cream, that she loves Jesus, and that she cares about her friends more than anything in the world. It was at this moment that I knew I was in love. This was the girl I was going to spend the rest of my life with. So after 5 years of dating my person, I’m happy to say that I get to put a ring on it, and spend the day with not only her, but all the people in our lives that mean so much to us.