www.BenjaminAlyssa.com
Hello Everyone! Many of you have been waiting for some time to hear the details of how the Lord brought the two of us together. Well, at this time, we'd love to share with you the goodness of our Lord in working so distinctly and in such a unique way in our lives. We hope that you enjoy the story and that it's a blessing to you today.
Our story begins here:
1: Though our story truly starts back in Alyssa's and my highschool years when we made a decisions to wait for God's choice of a life-mate, we will begin telling our story from the point of when our lives began to finally intertwine. After my graduation from the Lehigh Valley Baptist Bible Institute in the spring of 2011 I began to spend more time praying with my parents that God would bring the right girl into my life for a wife. The Lord began to impress more so on me that the time was coming for me to focus my attention on this area of life. The Lord brought my attention to Alyssa and I began to follow her blog to learn more about her. She had already been following my sister's blog for a few months. I decided not to mention it to my parents yet, and I didn't want to bring it up until I felt that this was even a direction worth considering.
2: While Ben was actively praying for a wife who would complement the Lord's call in his life to go into the ministry, I was preparing to spend three months in Thailand with the Gaudets. It was during this time that the Lord really began to burden my heart for missions and opened my heart to the possibility of a future in missions. After returning from my trip in Thailand I continued in my studies that fall in music at the local Skagit Valley College not having any idea that the Lord was already working to bring a man into my life.
3: On my birthday in November I told my parents about Alyssa which initially perked my Moms excitement, until she realized how far away Washington State is. This would truly be an obstacle because how could my parents and I really learn about her when she was so far away? It was during this time that our prayers together began to shift from a more general time of praying together for a wife into praying specifically how we could get to know Alyssa. I knew for myself I didn't just want to simply pick a girl based on how she looked, the abilities she had and the character she seemed to possess, but whether the Lord was the one directing the whole situation. I wanted God's wisdom, and confidence.
4: I had heard about Benjamin several years ago from some friends and from what I had seen on his blog, he seemed to be a nice guy, but I just dismissed the whole thing and put my future in the Lord's hands and just moved on with school :) Later, I saw the "Who We Are" video that LVBC had produced and realized that Benjamin was the main person behind the whole project. I was very impressed with his abilities and the initiative it must have taken to put together such an involved video. It was a small piece in the puzzle I was beginning to form in my mind of Benjamin.
5: I continued to read up on Alyssa's blog and restrain myself from conniving out a way to get over to Washington. I obviously wanted to meet her in person, but overall I wanted to see God's hand directing me to her. My parents and I continued to pray often and in January I found out Pastor Roland was going to be flying out to Washington to preach a series of messages. Somehow I didn't put two and two together in my mind that where Pastor was going was actually where Alyssa lived.
6: Pastor Roland came into town to preach and I thought it was pretty interesting that he already knew my name. Little did I know that he had me in mind for Benjamin and had already talked to Pastor Sargent about the possibility.
7: One night I went to my sisters' room...
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