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Meet Sarah.....my fiance......part II

About a week after I had received word from the other girl that she didn't want to go out, I got in the car and drove about 600 miles to Baton Rouge, LA. I must confess, this trip wasn't entirely to see Sarah, it was also to see my buddy Matt who was teaching at the LSU RUF meeting that night. But at any rate, Sarah was in town, and I saw her, and I told her what went down with the other girl, etc. In true Sarah fashion, she looked at me and asked if she could have a few days to think about it, and that she would let me know when she came back up to Nashville in a few days. I accepted her proposal.

-LONGEST TWO DAYS EVER-

When she arrived back in Nashville, I went over to her apartment, and after a little bit of small talk, I asked her what she had decided. She told me to 'ask her some questions.' So my first question was,"will you go out on a date with me on Thursday?" to which she answered "YES." Did yall catch that? She said YYYYEEEEESSSS! I immediately stood up and threw my hands in the air. Then I asked her what had changed to make her like me. She said, "I'll tell you someday" which I both hated and loved to hear. Hated, because I was curious, but loved because it meant that she was thinking about being with me in the future. So that was June 8, and we began dating.

I was Sarah's first real boyfriend. She has had crushes on different guys before, but had never called anyone her boyfriend, and for that reason, I wanted to take things slow and at her pace so that we could enjoy dating each other, and to not freak her out by moving too fast(which i am/was entirely capable of).

I left to go to Ethiopia on July 28 for 2 weeks, and the night before I left, Sarah said to me something to the effect of, "I don't want to do this(date) much longer." Instead of blurting out, "well then, lets get married" something inside of me mustered up the words to say "lets pray about it and think about it these next few weeks while I am gone and see where we are when i get back." So we did. And while I was gone in Ethiopia, I decided that Sarah was the girl for me and I started making the necessary arrangements to talk to her parents, etc. I also decided that I didn't want to talk a whole lot about marriage with her until I had actually asked her to marry me. After I returned home, the two weeks leading up to the point when I asked her to marry me were a really confirming time that the Lord had brought our hearts together and that we were created for each other, but I still was a little scared that she might say no.

Almost there......part III upcoming......how it all went down

-for those bored with the details, i love the show 24, and it is full of details. And I figure if I can't star in the show, I might as well try to write my own drama, and to try to entice you to the next episode like Keifer does week after week

posted by corbs @ 1:33 PM