Little did I know that less than a month after moving to Lincoln Nebraska for a teaching job in a local Catholic school, I would be meeting my future husband. I had accepted a teaching job in early spring of 2022, graduated college in May, then moved in with essentially a complete stranger on June 1st. During those few short weeks of moving to Lincoln, my now roommate and bridesmaid was playing matchmaker at another friend's wedding. Emily Martinez had known Connor through the Newman Center, where he attended Mass as a student and she served as a FOCUS missionary. Connor and I met for the first time at the CWS in early June, thanks to Emily. We went on our first date and shortly after became boyfriend and girlfriend. We dated for almost 11 months and on May 21st at Our Lady Of Good Counsel Retreat Center, he proposed in front of Our Lady.