The Story of how Amelia and Dave got together. Taken from a letter Amelia wrote to a friend shortly after the summer of 2007 when this all went down. Dave met Amelia at Camp Sagitawa during the summer of 2007. She was a SEED (Jr. Cabin Leader) and lifegaurd and he was a SEED. Within 3 weeks of working at camp Amelia knew that she liked Dave a bit but had hoped to refrain from dating anyone until the summer was over. The SEED girls she worked with weren't much help with that goal. At times they would be hanging out with Amelia and then when Dave would show up they would randomly disappear so Dave and Amelia spend a lot of time getting to know each other. The way they transitioned from friends to a couple was kinda odd Dave never asked Amelia out there was just an unspoken agreement that they were 'together'. They committted themselves to the camp ministry though and would act as if they weren't dating during the week and would spend the weekends as a couple.
Amelia had made a comittment at camp that she was going to let God into every area of her life because thats what was right. Even her love life, although at this point she really really really liked Dave so she didn't want to just assume Dave was the right guy for her she wanted God to confirm whatever would be best for her life at that point, even if it wasn't Dave. Now in Judges 6 it tells the story of gideon and the fleece. how he put a fleece out before God and asked God to make the ground wet and the fleece dry and he would take that as a sign. Thats kinda what Amelia went off of. She knew Dave would be leaving for Football camp the next week, he at that time didn't have facebook or hotmail or any technological things so if he left she would basically never hear or see him again. She prayed that if being together was what God wanted for them for life that he would show this to her by allowing them to be together the next week. Later that day. Amelia was washing dishes and Elise, Dave's sister came upstairs, and said "So I was headed home this weekend and I was thinking, hey there's a barn dance in Progress this weekend I bet amelia, meleah and chrystalyn would like to go and the best part is Dave is going to be there"
Naturally Amelia said yes and Dave and Amelia have been together ever since that summer. Battling their way through the trials that come with managing a long distance relationship. Finally they will be joined together as man and wife and start living in the same town! |