G: Sometime in September 2007, I called brother David and talked to him about “a sister”. He told me he knew why I was calling. That was worrisome. I told him about Linda and he happily told me that he would find out her “situation”. So I waited. And waited. And waited. Then I called him out of impatience.

He hadn’t talked to her yet. But he will! So I waited some more. And then even more. Still nothing.

This forced me to really spend time with the Lord about this situation. By November, I called him and told him to hold off on the whole situation. I felt like the more I prayed, the less clear I was.

G: One night, I was having some time with a brother here in Atlanta, and as a vehicle of example, I relayed my experience of unsuccessfully pursuing a sister. He encouraged me to revisit the situation and to find out for sure, or else I might regret it later on. I took this as something from the Lord, and a couple weeks later, I called brother David again.

L: We kept in touch with each other after the training. Some time before the Memorial Day conference, I told George I missed our team and Bro Dong. So at the conference, I get these texts from George telling me how I should go say hi to Bro Dong. Fine. I’ll go find Brother Dong. I spotted Bro Dong in the crowd and before I could say anything to him, he tells me he’s been thinking a lot about me lately. At first, I was very flattered. But then I realized there’s gotta be something up his sleeve.

And I was right.

He then asked me if I was open because there is a brother that’s asking for me. I asked for a dinner appointment. During dinner, Bro Dong asked me if I was open and if there was someone on my heart. I told him I was open, however someone was on my heart. It was then Bro Dong took the opportunity to share with me the story between Jacob, Leah and Rachel, and how the Lord’s choice is the best and the Lord’s choice for Jacob was Leah. But because Jacob was an emotional man, he chose Rachel. That choice caused so much storm in Jacob’s life, in Leah and Rachel’s lives and even their maidservants lives. I realized that was my situation. We ended the appointment with much prayer and consecration to give myself and my heart to the Lord and to His choice, and that I would not let the Lord give me any chance of having my own choice. Bro Dong told me he’d find out the situation about the other brother. (After all that’s said and done, Bro Dong never told me the name of the brother who was interested in me.)

G: All Brother David told me the next day was that she wasn’t interested. So I went back to Atlanta to sulk.

Continue to Chapter 3 and Epilogue