The Story of How we Met.....Part Two!

so...Erick wrote back and then a week later they were due to fly out from Auckland airport to Honolulu...the airport was only an hour's drive from where we were but I didn't have any money. A few of the american's on campus decided to go down and say bye and asked if I wanted to jump in for $10 petrol. I said I'd get back to them and that afternoon in the mail I received $10 from a mother of a friend from church. Met the team at the airport and said hi! to everyone except Erick as I felt really shy by that stage...but didn't know everyone was watching us as his team knew the dream and my friends knew what God had been saying to me. In the end Erick said "we need to talk" and we ended up having a 10 minute discussion in the cafe lounge which was time enough to lay all the dirty laundry and cards on the table and see if we were still interested in each other....we were. We just knew it was God. Erick got on the plane and went home with no money to return and I went back to College to finish my youth diploma. We started writing and phone calls when we could afford it but he had just finished being a student and I was still one, so neither of us had any money. It seemed impossible to come together. When Erick went back to his church at the end of his course, a couple went up to him and said "you aren't meant to be here, what God has for you is on the other side of the world"...and gave him money for an air ticket back to NZ. He contacted the Head of the Campus, arranged to come back and work on site and came back the end of July. the day before he came back Trev & Jan (heads of school) offered me their car to go down and pick Erick up, so I stayed in Auckland the night and God woke me and told me Erick was going to ask me to marry him and I needed to decide whether I would say yes or no. I struggled with it all night long, what if it wasn't God or was the wrong guy? Anyway Erick got off the plane, we went for a picnic lunch on a hill over the city and there and then he asked me!! Of course, I said Yes and when we got back to Lifeway, Trevor came out to meet us and said "Congratulations" before we had even told him.....but then Jan, his wife told him off for bursting our bubble!! The wedding is a whole other story...as neither of us had a dime and were both living on faith. Maybe one day I'll share that!!