(HER) It had been a busy Bethel day for the both of us. Him at Warwick, me at Wallkill. I had friends visiting from Cali and so I asked a friend to tour them around Warwick while I was at Wallkill. She did and asked Francisco to show them Vehicle Maintanance. He did. My friends invited Francisco for dinner, the same dinner they had invited me later that evening. We both came but sat down on opposite ends of the table. The only words we exchanged were maybe a “hi” and a wave. And that would have been it. But as we were leaving the restaurant two ladies outside saw us and asked, “Wow, you all look so nice! What’s the occasion?” I came up to them with a contact card and he joined in. And so together we gave them a brief witness... little did we know we had just found our forever service partner! ❤️

(HIM) After we met it was several months later until I would occasionally have the pleasure of catching up with Paola since it was rare seeing her. I would get assigned to work at Wallkill for a week or two at a time and would take the opportunity to get to know who Paola really was. It was mainly during our lunch breaks among a group of friends. I started taking notice of her Beautiful Loving qualities through the way she would treat her friends and also from what I had heard. I was able to be myself and she made me feel like a true friend of hers. On one occasion when working at Wallkill, Paola had car troubles, she reached out to her VM friend (me). In return I asked if she would glean food for me; I wanted see if she was kind enough to do it. As I was working on her car she surprised me with a rack of ribs! I was a happy man. That opportunity opened the door to many more happy doors 😁