How we met Part I

In leu of one of my favorite holidays coming up I thought it would be fun to write about how I met David.  This story has never been written down before and though I wish I had kept a journal during this time, I was an unfortunately bad journal keeper after graduating high school, I can still remember it like it was yesterday. Plus we talk about it often and who could forget meeting David I mean really. He's so handsome.


It was April 2007 the first time I was to ever go to General Conference, I had wanted to go for so long and being a student at BYU-Idaho allowed for such a privilege. My best friends and a group of our guy friends including my boyfriend at the time all traveled to Salk Lake for the big weekend. We had tickets to one of the morning sessions I can’t remember which day. We woke so early to get ready and get there on time, I remember waking up around 6 to get ready, there being 4 girls and one bathroom I wanted to insure I would have time to do everything I needed to look my best. 

 a picture of me from the day we met.

 

We attended the session and it was more than I thought it would be, what an experience I felt so lucky to be there. Afterwards our group walked around the temple grounds taking pictures everywhere we went. As we were walking in between the temple and the reflection pond, I ran into an old friend from my home stake. One of the girls with me was also from my home stake and the three of us quickly began talking and soon learned the old friend was also there with her boyfriend. 

However we never actually were introduced to him, the groups we were with were large and we just quickly chatted before heading our own separate ways. I do remember being absolutely star struck by her boyfriend though, he was so handsome, so mature looking, for sure a return missionary with goals and a promising future. He dressed so well, wearing a perfectly tailored suite* and beautiful blonde curly hair. 

After we departed I didn’t really think twice about the man in the suite but when we got home I was curious to see who he was and what better place to stalk someone than the ultimate stalker tool Facebook. I learned his name was David Palmer and was indeed a returned missionary. At first I assumed this was a Palmer from my home stake. The Palmers were a more prominent family and this old friend who have dated someone like that. However he was from Seattle not Texas, and besides that there wasn’t much information on either of their facebooks.  

Not even knowing who this guy was I came to the realization that I wanted to date “someone like that” I remember using those exact words. This guy was older, a returned missionary, mature, most likely knew what he was doing with his life, and looked like he had it together. Not to mention extremely attractive oh my!

I had never planned on meeting David or dating him, he was just an idea of what I wanted for myself and mostly forgot about him. This doesn’t mean I didn’t just happen to notice when he and my friend broke up and was secretly a little joyful.

Fast forward two months later, and I am having the summer of my dreams and dating someone new (Troy). Someone I thought to fit the description of what I imagined this David Palmer to be. It was actually a guy I had swooned over for months, hoping he would ask me out and when he finally did I thought in all my 18 year old wisdom that I had matured enough myself to date such an older mature man. We are not here to talk about that guy but he must be noted because it was because of him I was able to official meet this David Palmer. Even if it was terrible, terrible timing.

 picture from that summer, can we also please note the intensity of my bangs. I mean those were some bangs. 
 

Troy was working/living Utah for the summer so we had only seen each other a couple times since the beginning of the summer semester. I had no idea what was going on between us and when he said he was coming to Rexburg for the weekend to hang out and would love to see me I was hoping something would happen.

So troy comes up to Rexburg on Friday June 8th and is staying with his best friend Paul and guess who just happens to be Paul's roommate.....


 *I learned later he had bought that suite right before conference, probably for his girlfriend at the time, but little did he know that his future wife would be seeing him in that suite and because of it she would agree to go out with him.