My Love Story

It's been interesting for me to see how the Lord has guided my life lately to better things than I would have imagined. This May I decided to go on a mission. I started working on my papers and thought I would have them completed sometime in June, but for some reason or another they were taking me a lot longer to complete than expected. Certain things kept coming up that kept pushing them back later and later.

Finally, by July 17th, I had my interview with my Bishop and only needed my interview with my Stake President. However, the day I had my final interview with Bishop, was the day I was leaving to visit my sister in Alaska for two weeks, which also meant I would need to wait two weeks to have my interview with my Stake President. Also, on July 17th was the first time I talked to a guy named Taylor.

I met Taylor through Facebook. His friend, Tyler, went to the same high school as me. We were Facebook friends and he randomly wrote me and said something like, "Hey, I know we don't talk at all, but I need to know if you have a boyfriend or not. I'll explain later." (Ha weird, random?) I wrote him back and said I didn't. He then responded by saying he had a really good friend, named Taylor, who seemed like my type and we should become friends. At this time I was thinking oh great, a set up. These things never work, but after talking to Tyler for a little bit, I decided to add Taylor as a friend on Facebook. July 17th is the when we started talking.

I left for Alaska, which meant I couldn't turn my papers in until I came back, which also meant I had time to talk and get to know Taylor. We texted for a couple of days before he called me. We talked for the first time for about an hour and a half and it wasn't even awkward. Then the next night I lost a bet with him and so I had to call him that night. We talked for almost four hours that night and poor guy was in Ohio (selling pest control for the summer) and I was in Alaska. That makes a four hour time difference between the two of us. He stayed up until 4:30 his time talking to me. It was sure sweet of him. And then we talked every night after that. Even while I was on my trip we just assumed we would talk to each other every night. I had so much fun talking to him. He was really easy to talk to and we had a lot in common. After a little while, we started talking about us hanging out when he got back from Ohio and he asked me what my school schedule was so we could plan a time to do something. Well, I didn't have a school schedule. I was going on a mission and wasn't signed up for fall semester, but I wasn't about to tell him that, yet. I was going to tell him eventually, of course, but I just didn't want to then. Everyday I talked to him I liked him more and more. I was planning on telling him once I got home from my trip, but not during. I didn't want to be sad while I was on vacation, so I just made sure to enjoy it :) So when he asked me what my school schedule was, I lied and made one up and continued talking to him for the rest of the week with my fake schedule.

Finally, the night I got home from my trip, July 28th, I told Taylor I was going on a mission. He was pretty surprised and just didn't really now how to respond that night. He made a joke about me being an awkward sister missionary and I made a joke about him writing me. It was a pretty quiet conversation, just because we were both doing a lot of thinking, but what he was saying was making it sound like he wasn't just going to disappear. He asked if there was a chance that if I had my call and things were going well then I would stay home. I told him no. In one of my interviews with my Bishop, when I was trying to decide if I wanted to go or not, he said there was no harm in working on my papers and if I decided to not go I could just stop my papers anytime and be fine, but once those papers were turned in and I had my call, then he believed my call was from the Lord and that I should go. And that's what I told Taylor I would do. After talking to Taylor, my parents, my siblings and praying and analyzing every situation possible, I decided to sign up for fall semester. My justification for it all was that it was taking me so long to turn in my papers that I wouldn't even leave until about November anyway and then I would just be sitting and waiting until then. I might as well sign up for fall semester and then leave on my mission right after that. That way I wouldn't be wasting any time. That was my justification, but the real reason was Taylor, but I wasn't going to tell people that, especially because I hadn't even met him yet. He was still in Ohio until August 27th.

Our very first date!

We talked and skyped for the next month until he came home. We went on our first date August 28th. I was a little nervous and was wondering what he would think of me. We met at the City Creek mall and went and look around all the shops and then had dinner at P.F. Changs. After that we just sat and talked. It was pretty low key, but I enjoyed every second of it. We continued to date and every time we saw each other it just got better and better. I don't think there was any question for either one of us about where things would lead. Everything was always just so perfect and things couldn't have worked out better for us to be together :)

Taylor proposed on December 7, 2012 and I graciously accepted :) We will be married March 16, 2013 in the Logan LDS temple and I couldn't be happier. I love to look back and see how the Lord has guided me through my life that has led me to where I am today and all my many blessings.