MY WIFE AND MYSELF.

HERE IS THE MOST AMAZING PERSON, AND BEAUTIFUL SPIRIT I KNOW. SHE IS MY WONDERFUL WIFE, AND ETERNAL COMPANION OLYA. SHE IS THE JOY IN MY LIFE, THE MOST AMAZING MOTHER, AND FRIEND. THIS IS US ON OUR MARRIAGE DAY AT THE SALT LAKE TEMPLE. WOW, SHE NEVER DOES CEASE TO AMAZE ME.

WE MET ALMOST 5 YEARS AGO AT THE BEGINNING OF 2004 WHEN I WAS ON A MISSION IN THE UKRAINE, DONETSK MISSION. I KNOW, I KNOW WHAT YOUR ALL THINKING A MISSIONARY MEETING HIS SPOUSE ON HIS MISSION IS NOT RIGHT, IN FACT I WOULD AGREE WITH YOU 100%! I NEVER REALLY KNEW HER AS MORE THAN ANOTHER BRANCH MEMBER IN THE AREA I WAS SERVING. BUT FROM THE TIME I MET HER I ALWAYS KNEW THERE WAS SOMETHING SPECIAL ABOUT HER. I WAS IN HER AREA FOR ABOUT 3 MONTHS WHERE I WOULD SEE HER EVERY NOW AND THEN AT BRANCH ACTIVITIES, AND CHURCH. AFTER I LEFT 2 YEARS WENT BY AND I HAD NO CONTACT WITH HER, I WAS FULLY EMBRACED IN THE LORDS WORK. I THEN RETURNED HOME AND WAS RELEASE 3 DAYS AFTER RETURNING. FROM THE TIME I WAS RELEASE(NEVER BEFORE) I WAS CONSTANTLY THINKING OF HER, HOW SHE WAS, HOW HER FAMILY WAS, I HAD THIS FEELING AND ASSURANCE THAT I NEEDED TO SEE HER AGAIN. THE ONLY OTHER TIME I HAD EXPERIENCED THIS WAS ON MY MISSION DEALING WITH INVESTIGATORS AND THEIR NEEDS. SO I MADE THE TRIP TO SEE HER ONCE AGAIN, AND FROM THE TIME WE MEET I KNEW SHE WAS THE ONE. I FELT IT DEEP DOWN IN MY SOUL, ALTHOUGH IT WASN'T THAT WAY FOR HER. I HAD TO WORK FOR IT, THAT IS FOR HER TO KNOW I WAS THE ONE FOR HER. TO MAKE THINGS SHORT AFTER A FEW MORE TRIPS, AND A LOT OF HOURS ON A PLANE WE WERE MARRIED, AND MOVED HERE TO THE STATES. NOW, THREE YEARS LATER ALMOST AFTER OUR MARRIAGE THERE IS NO DOUBT IN MY HEART THAT GOD BROUGHT US TOGETHER TO BE ETERNAL COMPANIONS. HOW THANKFUL I AM FOR THAT. SO FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DON'T KNOW HOW WE MET THIS IS THE QUICK STORY OF HOW THE ONCE TALKER, BECAME TALKER'S!