Well last week is a week that I will remember for sure! On Tuesday the 10th Ericka Lowe called me and told me that the ring(s) had come! Wow it took long enough haha. I felt like I had been waiting forever. I picked out the ring May 19th so it took almost an entire month before it got to the Idaho Falls store for me to pick up. That Thursday the 12th of June Kay's jewelry store called me and informed me that the ring had come in. So now the dilemma was how to get a 30 minute car ride. I thought surely it wouldn't be too big of a problem considering all of the people that had offered to help me when they heard I was going to be engaged soon. Let me tell you it was a problem. I asked Carla's best friend Noel if she could give me a ride and she said she would have to ask her fiancé Bryce (who I both see almost every Sunday at game night) if he could take me. Then about 5 hours later at night she said text him. I felt like that was a sign of "He'd rather not" because I felt like they were most likely together and that she could ask him because she was probably right next to him. Then I called Jordan who I went on a double date with his girlfriend Amber Perez (who served in my mission) and then he called me right back and I just barely missed his call. I still needed a ride and had no idea of how I was going to get there. So I went back home and I was thinking if I should ask my roommate Johnny for a ride or a seek another source. So I started walking down the hallway and I saw a girl I recognized as a girlfriend of one of the guys in my ward. I went up to her and asked "Do you have a car?" She replied that she did in a little confused. I introduced myself and I told her my dilemma and she quickly agreed to help me on my journey for the ring. She was from Idaho Falls and knew right where the mall. We enjoyed talking on the way up and she said how she and Andre had become engaged recently and it got me excited for this next step in my life. After getting gthe ring without any trouble then I came home and saw her and had to play it cool till Saturday (I got the ring on Thursday).
Saturday rolled around and we did baptisms for the dead. We typically do them on Thursday but I wanted to do it outside of the temple. It was our first temple date is when we kissed that night and when we became "official". We had been going together every week this semester so we had a lot of good memories there serving. After getting dressed back into the temple after doing the baptisms we sat out on the bench on the West side of the temple and just talked. It was there where I first told her a little under 3 months prior when told her I wanted to kiss her. She gave me a cute expression that almost told me "oh you do". After talking for a while we noticed a bride and a groom getting their pictures taken together. As they came closer they Carla recognized the bride. The photographer and the couple started going the opposite direction but I prayed silently that they would come back and past us. I wanted the photographer to get a picture of me proposing at the instant I was going to do it. It seemed unlikely that they would be coming back but God answered my prayer and for some reason one of the 3 mentioned suggested they take a picture at a certain location pretty close to us. As they were passing us I plucked all the courage I could muster and said to the photographer "Excuse me, could you take a picture of me and my girlfriend?" "Yeah, sure." She moved in a specific location on some steps that only a picture of our faces. That wouldn't do I thought I want her to see me kneeling. I asked her politely "Could you just take one more picture of us with a full body shot?". "Are you going to pay me?" she inquired. "I just might", I said. I then got one knee and pulled open up the Kay's box with the ring it in and said something along the lines with a trembling voice to Carla "Carla, I love you. You know I love you. Will you marry me? I want to be with you forever. So will you marry me?" She had her hand over mouth in excitement. "Yes Eric, I will marry you. I love you too." During this entire time she the photographer was taking pictures of us. It was a great moment. I wasn't too nervous about asking her because we had already been talking about for a month. So that's how I asked her. After that we took some pictures with her smart phone that of course positioned her hand so the viewer could of course see the ring. Later that day we posted it on Facebook. It was a great day. Thanks Heavenly Father for sending this beautiful and righteous girl in my life! I know that if we live God's commandments to the best of our abilities God will send us blessing even more than we deserve and that's what I truly believe! :) After that moment she said yes I felt like the luckiest man on earth. No material wealth could ever bring more joy than know that you will spend eternity with the woman you love. :)
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