questions #3

Brought to you by Jerilee...

I would like to know how you and Paul met?

It was the summer of 1998. I had made a lot of bad decisions. I had stopped going to church, dropped out of high school, and I stopped talking to most of my closest friends. I can't remember why my Mom decided to move from the stompin' ground that I had always known, but she did. We moved to a pretty ghetto area of Salt Lake. I still didn't want to go to church, but I told my Mom I would go with her so she didn't have to do it alone.

In all of my life I never remember inviting the missionaries over for dinner, probably because my Mom was single...and that is not allowed. I don't know what got into her, but she invited them one Sunday at church.

At the time I was still trying to get rid of an exboyfriend that was hanging on for dear life. He was pathetic, really. The missionaries show up for dinner, and it was my exboyfriend, my Mom, my cArazy brother Kyle, and me...with Elder Sell and Elder Tate.

This is where our story began! Elder Sell hated being in Utah, and I loved to make people happy. We soon began writing notes, hanging out for dinner appointments, I went to church to see him, and I was in love. Our notes turned from random questions about each other to love notes. I still adore reading through them, Paul has always known what to say to make me feel amazing.

Elder Sell finally decided that Utah was not for him and went back to sunny California in November. I had really low self esteem, and thought that I would never see him again...maybe he was just lonely, and was using me for attention. We talked on the phone a lot, and his first trip to Utah in January of 1999...Paul would ask me to be his wife. We would realize that we couldn't handle the long distance relationship stuff, and were married in the San Diego, Calfornia Temple in April of 1999.Everyone together say "AAAaaah!" =)

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