Being where i am in my life right now, its made the past 2 years of my life make perfect since. I Left for an LDS Mission April 10, 2013. I served For 3 Months before having to come home to get surgery for Endometriosis, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endometriosis)
After my Surgery my doctor told me that because my condition was so bad he highly suggested i "find a good christian man, settle down, and start having kids." i don't think any person, male or female would feel at peace with hearing that there reproductive system had an expiration date.
after my surgery i decided i would not be returning to The mission field in Colorado springs. this decision only lasted about 6 weeks when i was advised by a priesthood leader that i needed to go back and continue serving the lord. So exercising all the faith i had, i did what i knew to be right. Returned to The mission field and served for another 7.5 months before getting very sick again due to the same old endometriosis. LDS women's missions are supposed to be 18 months, deciding to come home again was the hardest decision i had made to that point in my life. i wanted to serve an 18 month mission, i had been called to serve an 18 month mission, but my body was not having it. So i came home again.
i got home for the second time in May 2014. i attempted to work a full time job, but things with my health weren't being fixed so i was unable to. A few months later in July, still about 4 months before i should have come home, my health was good enough i decided to move to Provo UT.
Finding a job has never been hard for me, my personality is perfect for any retail job in the world. for the first month i was in Utah i applied day, after day, after day, to different stores all over provo, and none were working out.
One day on Facebook a friend from before my mission in Provo, posted about an opening at his work for an administrative assistant, the company was called Nudge, and i had no clue what the company did. it wasn't even located in Provo, but i was desperate. so i sent him my resume. i was called that day for an interview, and the next day i was offered the job. I had never worked an office job before so i was a little hesitant to accept, but i had a feeling that, with this job, i would find something that i needed.
my first day i met Parker Douglas Jenkins, i was distributing the office mail, and his supervisor walked up to me sand told me to stay away from him because "Parkers good looks and Charm would get me." all i could think was, i am not dating people i work with. "DONT POOP WHERE YOU EAT!" am i right?
my second day at work the company rented out a movie theater after work, there were about 6 movies playing. when i was trying to decide if i was going to go or not i called my 3 main boy toys because i was not going to a work thing alone. i didn't know anyone! but of course, no one was able to go. while driving home i passed the movie theater that the work thing was going on at, and then the next thing i knew i was parked at the theater. I went inside, alone. got in the snack line, alone. Then There he was, Parker Jenkins, he cut in line with me and talked to me while i waited in line.
Once i had my snacks i knew i didn't want to see a movie unless i was sitting next to parker. so i went with him to see The Edge of Tomorrow, for the FOURTH time. we talked on and off during the whole movie, and when the movie was over, he asked me out.
our first date was set for that friday, so of course between me saying yes, and the actual date, i had many many many freak outs of "oh gosh... we work together... what are the chances I'm going to marry him? crap we work together."
luckily i didn't cancele, because he was the most polite, kind, person i had ever been on a date with.
from our first date i knew i was going to marry him. i know people say that all the time, and i never believed it was possible to really know that so soon, but i knew it.
after 3 weeks i realized i wasn't ready to get married, and i knew with Parker that's where it was headed, so i broke up with him. we stayed broken up about 3 days when Heavenly Father chastised me for being chicken.
long story longer he is the love of my life, he is the man i want to be holding me when I'm sick, he's the man that will father my babies, he's the man that will love me when I'm tired and grumpy, and he is the man ill be sitting next to while i grow old.
Friday, January 9th 2015, This amazing man asked me to spend eternity with him. He had his sister in law pick me up for a dinner date. She took me to a Park in Springville, where candles created a path from the parking lot, over the bridge of the pond, that had floating candles in it, to a matte covered in rose peddles, where Parker was Standing with floating lantern behind him.
I'm so glad i decided to date people i work with because i don't know where i would be without this Man. haha.
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