Our Courtship Story-Aaron and Lindsay

It all started with an inno­cent walk around Louisville, Ken­tucky on a cold Jan­u­ary after­noon in 2003. Aaron and Lind­say were both attend­ing a New Atti­tude con­fer­ence with other youth and par­ents from their church. Aaron first began to notice Lind­say while she was taking pic­tures around town. Not really sure what had just hap­pened, he began to pray about it and plan out his strat­egy. Lind­say had no idea of Aaron’s inter­est for quite some time, but the inter­est started to grow as they indi­vid­u­ally began prepar­ing to par­tic­i­pate in a short term mis­sion to the Domini­can Repub­lic that August.

Lind­say: Before the trip we were serv­ing as a state­side sup­port team for our mis­sion­ary friends in the DR and I began to admire Aaron’s dili­gent and respon­si­ble nature. In the DR I enjoyed observ­ing him inter­act with the chil­dren, and how he loved to wor­ship and serve others. My admi­ra­tion started to grow, although I was com­pletely clue­less of his inter­est in me, for a short time, that is.

Aaron did not begin to express his inter­est, desir­ing to wait for the oppor­tune moment. New Atti­tude 2004 came along and Lind­say began notic­ing along with sev­eral others who had already noticed Aaron’s subtle atten­tion. The topic of the con­fer­ence just hap­pened to be on marriage!

Lind­say: After the con­fer­ence Aaron and I began con­vers­ing more on the phone and at gath­er­ings of friends. Aaron was a huge sup­port to me during this time.

After much prayer and coun­sel from others, Aaron decided to take the plunge and approach Lindsay’s father, Mr. Taylor, and ask about begin­ning a rela­tion­ship with Lind­say. This took place on a sunny Sat­ur­day morn­ing in June.

Lind­say: I was prepar­ing to take a two month mis­sion trip to Cam­bo­dia that summer, and really wanted this time to be focused on my rela­tion­ship with the Lord. I had just grad­u­ated from high school and wanted to seek out God’s will for my life. It was a dif­fi­cult deci­sion to make but my dad I decided that we should hold off on our rela­tion­ship for that period of time.

Aaron: I almost went insane! But while she was gone, I wrote her let­ters that I gave to her later. She really liked that. ;D

After Lindsay’s return in Sep­tem­ber, Aaron and his family joined the Taylor’s during their vaca­tion to the beach. It was a frigid evening when the father’s gave the hint for Aaron to take Lind­say out on a walk on the beach. “Was this the time?” Aaron won­dered. He began to slowly but surely express his sin­cere inter­est in pur­su­ing a rela­tion­ship with her. What a beau­ti­ful day! Sep­tem­ber 19, 2004 began our 15 1/2 month courtship.

Aaron began to invade the Taylor’s home once a week for dinner and an evening with the family while get­ting to know Lind­say more. This whole process was very new to them so it took time to get com­fort­able around each other.

Lind­say: God laid it on both our hearts to pur­pose to keep our rela­tion­ship cen­tered on the Lord. We wanted to be used by God to encour­age and chal­lenge each other in our walks with the Lord. I am so thank­ful for the ways Aaron lead me in study­ing the Bible together along with other books, mem­o­riz­ing Scrip­ture, and serv­ing on the wor­ship team together. Our rela­tion­ship was not free from bumps along the way, but the Lord was always there to give me peace that this was of the Lord. Over the next sev­eral months our rela­tion­ship grew steadily. Aaron was always very thought­ful and cel­e­brated every one of our mon­thaver­saries (the 19th date of every month from the begin­ning of our courtship !

May 2005 takes Lind­say back to Cam­bo­dia with a short term team. July 2005 takes the Taylor family on a road trip to Utah. A whole month apart! But thank­fully Aaron was able to fly out and join them for a few days, and they were able to explore the Grand Canyon and Zion National Park together.

Sep­tem­ber 19th marks one year! In cel­e­bra­tion of the event, you might think we’re crazy, but we went out on our very first date to a fine Ital­ian restaurant.

Soon after the first date, Aaron knew that Lind­say was the one. He began plan­ning away for how he would “pop the question” (after get­ting the OK from Lindsay’s dad). It all was put into action on a cold Decem­ber evening.

Aaron: The plan was to go on a double date with Linday’s brother, Steve, and his wife, Larissa. They knew what was going on. Steve ended up coming home from work really late (con­ve­niently) and Larissa still needed to get their son ready (also very con­ve­nient). So Lind­say and I took off for the restau­rant (just as planned).

It was a Friday night so I thought this restau­rant right on the Columbian water­front would be crowded, so when we got there I went in to see how long the wait was. There was no wait at all(!) which would have been great if we were really going to eat there but not so good for what I had planned. I went back to the car where Lind­say was and told her that we had some time to kill and I just hap­pened to have brought an umbrella, so we went for a little stroll down the Columbian water­front. We didn’t go far before I asked her if she wanted to take a seat on one of the benches there. I read her a note that I had pre­pared and at the very end I told her “I love you” for the first time. It was amaz­ing! Then I got down on my knee and pulled out the ring…

We went out to dinner to a nice restau­rant and went back to her house where both of our fam­i­lies were waiting.

Lind­say: I thought for sure he would never be able to sur­prise me! By the way, I did say ‘Yes!’

And so we were hap­pily mar­ried on May 21, 2006. And our story con­tin­ues on, fol­low­ing in the path that God us called us to.

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