addendum to engagement announcement

I just wanted to say hello to everyone and thank you all for your warm wishes. As well as Jeremiah has written about our journey with Christ, he left out a very important part. When I put God on the spot, I prayed and prayed for Him to have Jeremiah ask me to marry him IN ASPEN, if Jeremiah was the one that God intended me to spend the rest of my life with. Our trip was amazing and when it came to the night before we left, the probability of him asking me seemed slim. So I prayed for a place to go to church in the morning but nothing came except the last meeting that we were to attend before we packed. It turned out, that meeting was actually a worship service. During the service, I could see that something was happening to Jeremiah. After the service, we were packing in our room and I asked Jeremiah what was happening to him downstairs. He said, "I don't know, I just felt immense love." I asked, "For who?" And he said, "Well, for you." I said, "What does that mean?" He said, "It means, I love you." Realizing that I could not ask anymore because I would not know if it was me leading him to the question I wanted to hear or if it was truly God's wish, I stopped talking and just prayed. "God, if he is the one, have him ask me to marry him." Over and over again. After about five minutes, I was about to give up when I heard our Pastor's voice say something he has said over and over again, "Wait on Jesus, wait for Jesus' answer."

The week before, I had lunch with our Pastor and we talked about that you can’t get married half-yoked. He told me that I would have to decide. I realized when I was praying that he meant that I had to decide to obey Jesus no matter what the answer was. So, I started praying, “I will obey, I will obey even if he is not the one. I am your servant, you are my savior.” As I was praying this, Jeremiah’s hand was touching my side. The feeling of his touch became gross. So, I started preparing myself to accept that he was not the one. “I will obey, I understand he is not the one.” I started preparing in my head how we would break up. Not in Aspen, because that would ruin the whole trip. We would stay friends, maybe even business partners. Tears trickled down my face, I will obey. . .

Jeremiah’s touch returned to warm and loving and he went down on one knee and said, “Lisa, I am not perfect.” I replied in complete amazement, “I’m not either.” Jeremiah said, “But I believe together in the name of Jesus we could get pretty close. Will you marry me?” As I said yes, we both sobbed. We were so filled with the Holy Ghost our sobs were mixed with laughter. We decided then that we did not want to wait to plan a big wedding. We need to make it official so we can live God’s purpose.

God bless and smiles,
lisa

P.S. - We would like to have the picture of the 1988 reunion, where Jeremiah is jumping up in front, to represent the faith of the Snider family at the ceremony.
Would someone be able to help us get a copy by Sunday? Of course, we look forward to having as many of you down as possible for the people ceremony “hee”!