July of this year was an extremely hard time for me. While Jillian and Carl were in Hawaii, I was so frustrated about my current life. I was crying and praying all the way home from work and then I was about to be home and I decided that I needed more than a few prayers, but that I needed a father's blessing.
I called my father and headed to my parents' home. I was given a blessing of comfort and the tears would not stop falling from my eyes. I was talking with my mom and she wasn't able to understand what I was going through. The loneliness was too much for my heart. I stormed out of the house sobbing. As I was getting on the expressway, Jillian called me from Hawaii. She was truly heaven sent. She just had felt like she needed to call me and it was so comforting to know that my prayers weren't just hitting the ceiling or the roof of the car.
A couple weeks later I was at church and the institute instructor, Sister Worlton took me over to meet this nice gentlemen. His name was Ben Allen. Our fist meeting was quite awkward, but every time that I would go to church, I would think, where is Ben, I want him to see how good I look today.
After weeks of this questioning, I asked Nalihda what she thought of Ben. Nalihda is good about getting the 411 on everyone. All that she said was reassuring. After we finished our chat, she turned me and said, he's a great guy, you should totally go for it. I was like, what I just was curious. At that moment, I realized that I was interested in getting to know him.
A few weeks passed by and I was on my last furlough in August. I left a few important facts out of my previous post about going to Tennessee.
While there, I had no TV, Cellphone, or Internet. I had quite a bit of quite time. While there, my grandmother gave me her wedding set. At that moment, it was confirmed that I would marry soon. My mind kept on thinking, there are no prospects. Several evenings I would be relaxing and Ben Allen would come into my mind. I was like, seriously, I don't even know him. It was really funny because one day on the way home from the hospital, I told my mom about my entire wedding reception. I even showed my grandma and mother a picture of the dress I had picked out in December of last year when I was visiting Jenny in Utah. I thought this is so bizarre that I'm telling them about this and I'm not even dating anyone.
The following Sunday after I returned Ben gave a talk in church, which was probably the best talk I've ever heard. That is the point, I started opening up to the idea of dating him.
That evening I texted him and gave him my phone number. The following day Ben called me before Family Home Evening. It felt so good talking to him. He asked me if I had a key to the building. I actually had never brought back the key from when my roommate was in charge of FHE, so I was able to give him the key. Afterwards, I had to meet with the missionaries. He waited for me to get out of my meeting. Then Dave, Mark, Jonelle, Ben and myself headed to Buffalo Wild Wings.
I called my father and headed to my parents' home. I was given a blessing of comfort and the tears would not stop falling from my eyes. I was talking with my mom and she wasn't able to understand what I was going through. The loneliness was too much for my heart. I stormed out of the house sobbing. As I was getting on the expressway, Jillian called me from Hawaii. She was truly heaven sent. She just had felt like she needed to call me and it was so comforting to know that my prayers weren't just hitting the ceiling or the roof of the car.
A couple weeks later I was at church and the institute instructor, Sister Worlton took me over to meet this nice gentlemen. His name was Ben Allen. Our fist meeting was quite awkward, but every time that I would go to church, I would think, where is Ben, I want him to see how good I look today.
After weeks of this questioning, I asked Nalihda what she thought of Ben. Nalihda is good about getting the 411 on everyone. All that she said was reassuring. After we finished our chat, she turned me and said, he's a great guy, you should totally go for it. I was like, what I just was curious. At that moment, I realized that I was interested in getting to know him.
A few weeks passed by and I was on my last furlough in August. I left a few important facts out of my previous post about going to Tennessee.
While there, I had no TV, Cellphone, or Internet. I had quite a bit of quite time. While there, my grandmother gave me her wedding set. At that moment, it was confirmed that I would marry soon. My mind kept on thinking, there are no prospects. Several evenings I would be relaxing and Ben Allen would come into my mind. I was like, seriously, I don't even know him. It was really funny because one day on the way home from the hospital, I told my mom about my entire wedding reception. I even showed my grandma and mother a picture of the dress I had picked out in December of last year when I was visiting Jenny in Utah. I thought this is so bizarre that I'm telling them about this and I'm not even dating anyone.
The following Sunday after I returned Ben gave a talk in church, which was probably the best talk I've ever heard. That is the point, I started opening up to the idea of dating him.
That evening I texted him and gave him my phone number. The following day Ben called me before Family Home Evening. It felt so good talking to him. He asked me if I had a key to the building. I actually had never brought back the key from when my roommate was in charge of FHE, so I was able to give him the key. Afterwards, I had to meet with the missionaries. He waited for me to get out of my meeting. Then Dave, Mark, Jonelle, Ben and myself headed to Buffalo Wild Wings.
Ben and I talked the entire evening to each other. It was quite easy conversation. What truly made me hesitant is that he's an oldest child also. Two oldest makes for quite the pair. As we were leaving the restaurant, Jonelle and I headed one direction and the guys headed another. I thought that was absolutely the end of it. While I was driving home, feeling that nothing was going to happen, a text came to me from Ben wishing me a good night and that I drove home safely. I then thought, "maybe there is hope."
A week had passed and he hadn't asked me out on a date. I was playing the Organ in church and then he came up to me before the meeting and said that he had prayed that I would have angel hands when I was playing that day. Then I just blurted out,"Want to come over to dinner tonight?" He said yes and I could hardly contain myself.
He came over at 4pm and then he stayed and talked to me until 11pm. He basically told me his whole life story in one night. At the end of our date, we hugged and I thought that this might only be a friendship. I was disappointed and went downstairs to bed. I called Jillian and told her about my day and how I thought nothing was going to happen. She then told me to take a chill pill and that everything seemed perfectly normal.
The next day we went out and things seemed to be going well.
Things began to progress quickly and we have become best friends. Ben is so kind and giving. He will help me out with all of my responsibilities and lightening my load. I love him so much and cannot wait to be married to him forever.
