We met through Good Shepherd Community Church. In the seventh grade, we were both placed on the same team to go and serve the homeless in Seattle. That is where it all began. After that, for the next two years, we mostly saw each other once a week at our church's youth group. Sometimes we would get together once every couple weeks to spend our time talking as we walked around the neighborhood for hours. We started off as friends with feelings for one another right off the bat, and it slowly grew into the greatest relationship we could ever ask God for. When I, Malia, went off to Bible college in Spokane, WA, our relationship began to change because we were beginning to grow up and experience real life. Ransom and I were pursuing different things in different places. He was pursuing paramedic school and I was pursuing a Bible degree. We discovered more about ourselves and our relationship in that one year than all the years we had been together previously. We even questioned why we were together as a couple at different points in that same year. However, we worked through it and became closer as a couple because of it. After that year I moved back to Salem, Oregon to go to Corban University. The summer going into my junior year we just jumped into seriously considering and planning on getting married the next spring. Ransom proposed in November and that brings us to where we are today! Now that we have made these plans to commit ourselves to one another before God, family, and friends; we are beyond excited! God has been so faithful and kind to us! We are grateful that God has given us each other, and we are grateful that God gave us all of you. Life would not be the same without those of you who helped us along the way (family and friends). Thank you for the impact you have made on us. We are excited to celebrate with all of you!