I met David during my first year of Master's Commission. I remember seeing him for the first time at Pastor Josiah and Macey's house, and he sat right next to their fireplace. The whole night he cracked jokes, and I thought to myself, "Okay, so this is going to be the guy who doesn't take the year seriously." However, my opinion quickly changed a couple of days later when we were all painting bottles. He was sharing paint with me, asking me questions, and he seemed like a genuinely nice guy. I then thought to myself, "Okay, this guy isn't so bad after all." As time went on, I started to notice his prayer life growing. We always would have 9 a.m. prayer together, and that's when I started to notice how badly he wanted to know who God was. My heart was moved by how passionately he began to pursue the Lord, and slowly but surely, my affections for him began to grow as well. I knew I really liked him, but I also knew that I needed time, as I had just left a relationship before starting Master's Commission. Towards the ending of my first year, the Lord grew a desire in my heart to do another year of not dating anyone. At first, I wanted to fight it, but after a month of wrestling I knew I wasn't completely ready to date after my last relationship, and I still needed to discover who I was in Christ. Crazily enough, David also felt the same way, and so we both spent our second year still pursuing God on our own. The summer after our second year end, right before our third year began, David finally told me how he felt and asked if we could get to know each other better - to which I, of course, said yes! We went to the aquarium together, we explored Downtown Houston together, and we danced in the driveway of my house one night after visiting his grandparents. He then asked me to be his girlfriend the day before Thanksgiving of 2021! I knew I was falling for him, but there was a fear that our paths wouldn't align. We both felt called to fulltime ministry, but what church would hire the both of us before we were engaged? I prayed fervently for God's will to be done in our lives, and I left the outcome up to our Heavenly Father. A month after our graduation, we amazingly got a job at Trinity Assembly, where we still work as Youth and Young Adults Pastors! Our desires to be together in ministry were being blessed by God! 6 months later, two days before my birthday, David took me to San Antonio to have a picnic at a flower farm, where he finally asked me to marry him - which, I of course, said yes! God has been so faithful to us and so good to us, and He has shown us His favor the whole way through. We are so excited to have our friends and family with us on our wedding day, and we can't wait to spend the rest of our lives together honoring the Lord in marriage!

Basically what she said lol. Me and Summer met during our first year in HMC, and right off the bat I thought she was pretty cute, but I was also just getting out of a relationship and was NOT looking to start a new one. During our first year, all I wanted to do was grow closer to God with my brother Mark, while along the way praying for my future spouse. After about the midway point in the school year I started going to 6am prayer at our church, Crossroads Fellowship, and a few of the other classmates would go as well. Waking up that early to go pray definitely takes a toll on you, however, I noticed that aside from me one girl in particular would consistently go - Summer. Throughout the year I slowly but surely saw Summer growing in the Lord and as a person. After we graduated I decided to come back for a second year and also to do another year of singleness and do another year of covenant (an HMC tradition to place the Lord first and follower after God with all your heart). During the summer time, me and Summer consistently kept going to 6am prayer, and that's when my feelings for her really started to grow because I saw how much she loved the Lord and was willing to put work in to her relationship with God. But I had made a commitment not to date, I still wanted to focus on God! And I knew that if she was the person the Lord had for me then it could wait another year because the Lord does not rush His timing. I knew that at the end of there year if it was meant to be then God would open the door of opportunity for us to be together. So, in the mean time, I would just drop small hints to her, dressing to impress (on special occasions) and flirt just a little bit with her from time to time to keep her on her toes. I had a pretty confident feeling that she liked me, it was something about the look in her eyes when she would look at me. It was different than when she looked at anyone else (which I cant blame her, I would do the same if I was her. How could she resist liking a guy as funny and charming as me, right?) Well, I guess its a God thing that she liked me back. We both waited till the end of our second year to properly start talking and to get to know each other better. We started off with a small date at the Houston aquarium, and that lead to Steak dinner downtown and ice skating and Discovery green, where I asked her to be my girlfriend. A year later we accepted the greatest job we've ever had as Youth pastors at Trinity assembly (shout out ablazy nation!) with the greatest youth group in the world. Six months after that, I popped the question to the woman I love the most in the world and never looked back since. The rest is history and all we can do in look forward into the amazing future with each other that God is crafting. To this day I still look at Summer and see the hand of God on her molding her into the Woman of God I have always been praying for since my first year in college. Growing as a woman, friend, fiancé, daughter, disciple, and just over all amazing person. I never though I would be blessed enough to live the life I have and share it with my dream girl. But here we are, years later, living out our dreams with the person we love the most. God truly is good and is the reason we are together today. I can't wait to marry this beauty queen and make her my forever! That's my story ;)