Chris and Amanda - Answering Your Questions

Hey everyone, it's Chris and Amanda!

We plan on having kids eventually. I (Amanda) could have kids now, but can wait two years. I (Chris) want to have kids in four years. I think that is a long long time. For now we are just enjoying the married life.

We met in 9th grade on the swim team. Chris always tells me he loved me the whole time but I question that. We were best friends from the moment we met on. Chris always made my boyfriends jealous. And Amanda was always trying to push girls away from me. So we were meant to be together. We even said if we where 28 and not married we would get married. We even planned all the colors of our wedding and stuff. This was in our junior year. We were still just best friends. It's great to marry your best friend 'cause you never run out of things to talk about or to use on the other person and remind them of the things they did in high school and only told you.

So to answer some of your comments, I didn't have a roommate, that was just one of my groomsmen who stayed the night. Also, Uncle Al: This was our idea. We thought it would be fun but was very stressful also. My mother, Juliann, wasn't really sure why we did it. For those who asked, Chris' sisters are 16 and 12 and very cute girls- I love them! And our temple is just like the temples in the Bible only certain righteous people can go in each section people who have made the covents to go in that section. It's the house of our loving Lord. It's where we go for peace and we don't want people in there criticizing us while we are trying to get peace and inspiration. It just makes sense. And the Lord has set the standards, not us, so we don't decide who is worthy or not. The person who wants to go in has there own choice if they want ot be worthy or not.

In our opinion: If you want to get married but are afraid to, tell your parents. Just explain to them this is what you need now and you won't be happy without it. And just read all of the wonderful comments! We have lots of people marrying young and are very happy just be prepared to work for it and if you are prepared to work for it, tell them that too! Don't be afraid to tell someone you want to join the church, just tell them you know it's for you and if it's not for them fine. I understand being afraid if you love someone and they don't believe in it; it will be hard. But you never know, they might suprise you! Anyone looking for more information on the church, you could always talk to the local lds missionaries in your area.

Thank you for all the wonderful encouragement, prayers and blessings. We are sure at times we will need them. Right now we just love being together, having fun with each other, and KISSING! MTV told us we were the kissy couple but we just love to give each other little kisses every minute of everyday if we could to show are love. We know that we love each other more than anything and we wanted to have our own life together, SO WHY WAIT! WE LOVE EACH OTHER!!
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