We had the most amazing time in Norway. I have some distant cousins that live in Stavanger, Norway and I contacted them and we spent a week or so with them. They were the kindest people we have ever met. They treated us as though we had been friends all of our lives. We did some genealogy work and expanded our family tree. We flew into Oslo, Norway and spent a day there. From there, we rented a car and headed out for Stavanger. We have an old family farm, Seltveidt farm in the Fjords or Norway. They took us out to the farm and showed us around. We then drove back to Oslo where Magne, our distant Norwegian relative, met us and gave us old family belongings from the 1800's. How kind.
We were married December 28, 2004 in the Denver Temple, exactly six months after our first date! Yes, we know it was fast, but waiting any longer seemed torturous.
We met my first day back in Utah after my mission. I went to my new ward and knew that I recognized Vicente; I kept looking over at him and thinking to myself, “How do I know him?” I went over to him and asked him some questions trying to make the connection in my head, he answered me, and we realized that he taught in the MTC a group of missionaries that went to Madrid, Spain. In fact, he taught one of the girls I trained, whom of which had showed me his picture. Vicente -The next day I kept having this feeling that I should call her, I knew that there was something special about her. I came up with the perfect plan, so that I could meet her. I called her to ask for her mission’s address so that I could write the missionaries, thinking I would come over and get it. She quickly responded asking me if I had a pen. So she gave it to me and hung up quickly. I called her and asked if I could come over and get her so we could go out to eat! Since then, we have never spent a day apart
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