Well hello again,
It's been a while since I've posted anything and I'm not even sure if people still read this thing but hey, it's better then writing in a journal for me so I'll keep at it when I can.
I wrote a post a few months ago about an activity that another ward in our stake invited us to attend. It was during February and it was before the dreaded day of Valentines, so it was obviously a dating type of activity where they were gonna try and pair us off with people in their ward, and try to make the activity as awkward as possible with the games they had us play. Now I will be the first to admit that I do a lot of embarrassing things(not really for me, more for those that are with me at the time) HA and I pretty much have no shame, but when it comes to playing games that put me in an awkward situation for another person, especially someone of the opposite sex I can get really reserved and it just isn't good. Boy did we play those kinds of games. Kissing Rugby. A person of the opposite sex sits in the middle and has a member of the same gender protect them by kissing the person of the opposite gender that is trying to kiss the person in the middle...yeah...not my kinda game...yet these are the kinda games/situations that our leaders love to put us in for some reason all the time.
Needless to say I wasn't planning on going to the activity at all. 8 had rolled around and I was still nestled at my house doing some homework I believe.(probably not but I'll go with it, because it makes me sound better.) I got a text from a friend of mine about 30 minutes after 8 telling me to hurry up to the activity because there were only like 4 guys from our whole ward there. You see our ward is really close with each other. We are usually hanging out together during the week or we go on camp outs and things together all the time. For some reason though a lot of the other wards in our stake are not as close as we are at all. So we usually stay away from things like this. I had decided a few months earlier after I had broken up with my ex that I was going to steer clear of the ladies for a while. I was tired of nothing working out on both ends, but I knew if I didn't show up he would be a angry guy for a while. He apparently had been trying to get a lot of us there, because when I pulled up so did 3 of my really good friends. We all walked in played some of the really boring dumb games and were getting ready to bail when they herded us into another room to do a speed dating thing. They gave us 3 minutes to find everything out about the person on the other side of the table and when the ding sounded we had to move on. OH JOY 3 minutes to try and soak in tons of info about people I didn't really care to get to know in the first place. The thing that made it even worse was that not a lot of people in the other ward seemed very interested at all in playing this game. Our ward was going crazy with people in the other ward and they were just kind of like ok, whatever I will talk to you. I got pretty much all the way around the room, when I got to a girl that was sitting next to a friend of mine in the ward. We got talking and come to find out she was the younger sister of the guy that told me to come to the activity in the first place. We got talking and we had a lot of fun. There was a bunch of candy in different bowls and she handing me a candy heart that said something I can't remember on it. She looked at me and jokingly said "Here take my heart" So I did and I ate it. It was tasty. The ding sounded and we moved on, I got about halfway down the next table when she shouted out hey I want my heart back to give to this guy. I told her that I ate it, she was sad and the night carried on. She seemed like a really great girl that I wanted to get to know better. I failed horribly in trying to get her number that night because she ran off, as did most of our ward, right after the activity was over. So I had the night to sit and stew and think about how I was going to get her number. I also realized again that while I had told myself I was done dating, a person was put in my path that totally destroyed that thought and I was once again in the wanting to know her more phase.
We ended up hanging out a few times at FHE and much to the then dismay of her older brother who I was friends with got her number. We started talking and I found out how old she was. 19 :( Why couldn't there be any girls in the ward that were somewhat near my age that were interested in dating? Oh well I thought, I asked her out and it was kind of a roller coaster from there. I found out later down the road that her dad and of course older brother were against me going out with her because of the age difference. I've got 8 years on her and I could see their worry at that time. Her mom though believed in her daughters judge of character and was ok with the date. We had a great time, went to dinner and went and saw Comedy Sportz which is a fun improve to kinda show. We ended up spending the next couple days together and one thing led to another and we are now engaged! Pretty stoked about it all even though it's still kinda weird for me. I love the girl and she is the best thing to happen to me. Supports me in all I do and I know we are going to have a great life together.
I just find it funny that we met in an activity that I originally had no intent on going to. I'm sure we would of met later down the road, but what if things didn't go the way that they did? Would we be engaged right now? Or would we know that the other existed. I'm sure being in the same ward we would of eventually met, but she had plans to move out on her own soon for school and I most likely would of never met her then. Just crazy how things sometimes work out huh?
