Love Story Part 1

This is us...back in the missionary stage :) 

This is our story. How we met. Why we love each other. Why we love life.

We both served LDS Missions in the Texas Houston South Mission. I was called to serve Spanish speaking, Zach was called to serve English speaking.

What Zach remembers as the first time we met:

It was about 2 weeks into my mission when we had a Zone Conference. This was at the beginning when the English and the Spanish areas met together. We were paired off with our companions to role play together. He saw that I was in pain, he naturally wanted to help, but when he prayed about it he was told he could not help- yet. When we role played together he says that he thought I was amazing, but he still had his ex-girlfriend writing him and he was a missionary so there was nothing there.

What I remember as the first time we met:

About two weeks into my mission I became really sick with pain all over my body. I went from doctor to doctor- until I was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis and Fibromyalgia. I was living with a senior missionary and working as an office missionary. Had I been healthy it would have been my dream mission. I loved it and was able to use my organization skills.

I was working on organizing all of the Christmas gifts as they came in for the missionaries from their parents. Some parents (mine included!) sent huge boxes. I could hardly hold a pen at this point and had no grip- so I was unable to lift these boxes. Zach was serving with the English Assistant at the time and was in the office often. Each time he was there, he always offered to help and always lifted those stinking heavy boxes for me. He was always a gentleman- not something I experienced much prior to my mission. But I had decided prior to leaving that I would NOT under any circumstance marry anyone I met while on the mission. ;) ( Funny how things rarely go the way we plan!)

However, both of us agree that we did not "officially" meet or get to know one another until we were both serving in SUNNYSIDE :)