I’m Dating

I’m dating a lovely young lady named Stephanie Zboran. Well, dating is what we’re calling it if people ask casually, but we’ve defined it for ourselves as being much closer to courting. Here is a picture of us:

Stephanie and Me

Stephanie is currently a Spanish teacher at Westminster Schools of Augusta (in Augusta, Ga), where she has taught for a year. During the past few summers (and including this one) she has been a camp counselor for “Camp All-American” that is hosted by the Perimeter Church in Atlanta (where her family resides). She loves to serve the Lord by teaching little kids about Jesus, she loves to play games, and her love of Spanish took her to Mexico for a six-week mission trip.

So how did we meet you might be asking? Well, I’ll give you the short story here, which starts almost a year ago. Last July, Poppop wanted to set-me up with a young lady from their church (Ruth), so I drove down to Atlanta for the two days prior to returning to New York. Well, it didn’t really work out because Ruth was not in town, so I ended up spending the afternoon with Poppop and Gran’ma Judy’s famous Skip-bo Club. It was really a lot of fun! We had dinner and later played Mexican Train (since I made them an odd number for Skip-bo 🙂 ). After that fun evening, on the way back to Poppop ‘s house, Mrs. Larson called me (“me?”, I thought), and asked what I thought about being set-up, that there was young lady in their church named Stephanie, that she thought we might get along well, and would I be interested in contacting her by email. Hmm…well, I thought, sure, I’m not opposed to meeting new people and making new friends, as long as it’s understood to be a friendship.

So, once I got back to New York in early August, I sent Stephanie an email. She responded quite nicely and we continued to exchange emails, trying to get to know each other through the printed word. Immediately it seemed that we had a lot in common and we hit it off well exchanging emails back and forth. This segued rather naturally into talking on the phone once a week (by about September, I think). So, week by week, month by month we continued to get to know each other by email and phone.

I suggested to Stephanie that over Christmas break, her family and my family get together for a day of food, fellowship and games, and Poppop and Gran’ma Judy very graciously hosted the event. I think it went rather well. Through January and February we continued exchanging emails and phone calls, and I went to visit her in Augusta for a few days and got to know many of her friends and colleagues. We continued our emails and phone calls, and made plans to get to know each other better in person this summer.

So now I’ve spent the last two-and-a-half weeks with Stephanie and we’ve had a great time, and many great conversations, and both of us want to pursue our relationship further and see what God may have in store for us! 😀 Do pray for God’s guidance and wisdom for us, and that we might make the most of our summer together.

Here are a few more pictures, and if you would like to see quite a few more, visit http://micah.waldecker.net/summer2010 (and use these case-sensitive login credentials: Family&Friends / Letm3C7hepics)

Stephanie atop Stone Mountain

At the laser show and fireworks for July 4th (on the 5th)

Stephanie and I played disc golf at a nearby park