And this is how two hearts fell in love...
I graduated from Alta High School in Sandy, UT in June of 2011. I had applied to BYU Idaho, Utah State, and Utah Valley University. I got accepted to all 3 of them and then I had to make the big decision of where I wanted to attend school. I was planning on becoming a nurse and UVU had a great nursing program and so I decided that I was going to be moving to Utah County that coming Fall. My parents and I spent so many weekends looking at all of the different student apartment complexes over by UVU and then my parents thought that I should live over in BYU approved housing. UVU and BYU are only 10 minutes apart so it was not a big deal to make the drive everyday if I lived over by BYU. My mom and I ended up finding Alpine Village where I would spend my first year of college. We showed my dad and he felt good about it as well. We signed the contract, payed the money, and I was ready to go. Little did I know, I was going to meet my husband.
I moved down to Provo in August 2011 and I was so excited to start college. I felt so old moving out of my parents house and being on my own. My mom, aunt, and grandma moved me all in and then my dad came down the next day to hang everything on the walls in my room. Sunday rolled around and I was ready to go to church. I remember getting up super early because I knew I was going to be going to church with a lot of older people so I wanted to make sure that I looked all put together. I was living in a complex and there were not many freshman that lived there. That meant lots of returned missionaries!
My roommates and I walked into church and sat down and I remember seeing Eric sitting closer to the front. It was testimony meeting and Eric got up and bore his testimony. There was something about it and I just knew that he was a special guy. I didn't think much about it and then he was assigned to be my home teacher and was in my family home evening group (I know this sounds like the typical BYU story). I left church that day feeling so glad that I was living over by BYU. That meant I went to school with UVU students but lived and went to church with BYU students so that meant double the friends.
We started having family home evening and Eric started to do his home teaching every month. I saw him every week on monday nights and then one sunday a month for home teaching. At first, he was really bugging me! I felt like when he was coming over he was staying so much longer than I wanted him to. He was just making sure that we were okay though and fixing everything that we had already broken. I was really impressed with the lessons that he would share when he would come home teaching. He is a spiritual giant.
In November 2011, I started to really like Eric. He was a student body officer at BYU and was always busy but we still found time to hang out. We texted over Thanksgiving break and then we went on our first date right before Christmas break. I, of course, over thought it but he just took me out to dinner to be nice because I was taking him to the airport the next day to spend Christmas with his family in West Virginia. We texted and skyped quite a bit over Christmas break and I really thought this was going somewhere. However, come January I just kind of blew it off because he didn't seem very interested.
January-April of 2012 Eric and I still saw each other every monday night for family home evening and once a month for home teaching. He started to call though more and wanted to come over and hang out more often. I was all for it so he kept coming over more and more. This went on for a good couple months and we started to steadily date in June 2012. I flew to West Virginia in August and met his family. In October the missionary age changed and I started to feel pressure about going on a mission. I prayed hard about it but felt like I needed to see where things were going to go with Eric before I started to make the decision if I wanted to serve a mission and put in mission papers.
I started to hint marriage to Eric in November but he didn't really seem interested. At this point, I told him that he needed to decide if he still wanted to date or not because I was not going to waste my time if he wasn't interested. I had no idea, but he had talked to my mom and dad and had the ring. He bought me a ticket to West Virginia to go and visit his family the day after Christmas and we were going to take a weekend trip to Washington D.C. He proposed to me in Washington D.C. on December 31, 2012. I had no idea that he was thinking marriage and was totally surprised when he asked me to marry him. We were married in the Draper, UT LDS temple 4 months later in April 2013 for time and all eternity. This is our happily ever after!
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