I've known him forever. My sis went to first grade with him. My family has been good friends with his family for a few years. When he was in high school and I was in junior high, me and my sis and him were all homeschooled (we both were through high school, I'm still in HS) and we got together with our moms and did science labs. Then when I was 14, I started going to a Bible study at his family's house that his dad was the leader of. I'm still going to that 3 years later.

Through all that I had no feelings whatsoever for him. But he went on a year long mission trip from fall of '06-fall of '07, and when he got back (last fall), things were different.

He asked my parents if he could date me (though it feels awkward to both of us to say we're "dating," and his parents don't believe in dating. They fully understand that we have feelings for each other, but say that since we're not at the courtship stage, we're "friends." lol...) on my 17th birthday, which was March 31 of this year.

He just turned 20 on 6/7/08.
