So Mason had just proposed to me in the stacks of Hale Library at Kansas State University after only 2 1/2 months of dating. We went to dinner at Coco Bolo's, the place of our first date, afterwards to celebrate. We were, of course, ecstatic.

I forgot to mention in the last blog that one of reasons that Mason decided to propose so quickly was due to something that happened to him before he ever talked to me while I was in Alaska. In June, he was over at his friend's house in Kansas. Together, they were praying and Mason told God that he was ready to meet his wife. He told God that he was tired of the endless string of girls that he would talk to for a couple of weeks and then the relationship would fizzle out as quick as it had began. He wanted to get married...and soon. 

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