Dear all,
I just wanna share about what happen in me and maybe it sounds unusual, but I let you know and I will explain about what happen with me.

January 7th 2008…
We (Jamin and I) went to the Court House and got Marriage License, finally we got married. After the really short time, we decided to give our life each other.

I’m sure a lot of people have a big question mark. Why they get married soon? Why is so soon? Why they really fast to take decision? Are they really married or just play? Are they sure meant each other? Bla bla bla..

First of all,I will tell about how Jamin and I met. I’m working at Asia Section, Disney’s Animal Kingdom as a Cultural Representative. My husband works for custodial / park keeper at DAK also. We met around July, but everything was nothing. We just see each other almost everyday; finally we were dating for couple months… We had a really really hard time in our relationship. He had beliefs that absolutely different than me (I am Christian), we used to fight and had a bad time. Once we touch about spirituality, we will fight all day long, no end of discussion. We used to fight until I got sick, and I didn’t go to work on that day. Every Sunday, we always argue, because I came from church and he came from his church…I almost give up, I prayed to God that if he is really my husband wanna be or my Mr.Right, just change him, if not please make him hates me or make something happen to us. I didn’t ask him to change his belief, I just flow and I was fasting and pray to God that please give me the way and touch him if that’s His way. November 14th, when I went to his apartment, he said,” I think Jesus is a God. Jesus shows Himself for me today”. Then he explained about dream that he had, it was old man talk about religion with him. He kind of “challenges” God and asks God to shows Himself. And God did it, right after he asked that. After he went out from the bus, he saw the big words on the clouds (JESUS LOVES YOU) by plane and a lot of things happened with him and his spiritual side.

Since that day, he changes his mind and turn 180 degrees, our relationship being better and we always have a good time. He cares of me; he loves me more than ussual. One day, his family came here as vacation on Thanksgiving. We had vacation together, it was fun and nice.. November 26th, 2007. He brought me to the pier at Clearwater Beach . It was almost 7 oclock, I didn’t expect that he was hold my hand and asked me to be his wife. I was thinking about what God gave to me, the answer and the signs, I said “I do…” And I think I can get along with his family :) Time flies… we always together and no worry about our relationship, because we already in one belief, our love grows stronger than before.

After we are engaged, people start to “give” some advice. They said, “Hey, are you sure with him?” “You still young, he still young” “he doesn’t have a good job, you are not sure with your job” ”everything still pink” “he is not ready I think” “He is just a custodial” etc. The strange thing is people who “underestimate” us are from my side, and the otherside (Jamin’ side) his co-workers, his managers, his family and my family and a couple of my friends support us. I really upset, because when I decide to get married with him, they use to give me an advice. I know they are concern with me, they care with me; but if one thing, one advice they repeat more than one time, almost everytime we meet, they always say that. Honestly it makes me sick and trauma because everytime I say that, people will say that. I really afraid to tell people what will happen with us, what our plan, because people will say that :(

Before we married, we talked with my parents (a couple times). The first thing that my mom ask me was, “is he rude / not?” because we really afraid that he will abuse me or things like that… I told my mom that he never ever yell at me even sometimes I whining / grumbling in front of him, he never shout at me, yell at me or do physically violent. Everytime I grumbling and complain about anything he asks me to be patient and motivates me…
He talked with my dad for asked him to take me as a wife and ask permission to my dad (its part of my culture lol). My dad said, even that he is very young, younger than me but he is so mature, he said he is more mature than my brother (who 10 years older than him) lol.

Since I married with him, for first 3 days, I always cried. I was cry because I tried to fix my relationship with the other people, with my co-workers and my friends. I don’t know what to do, what should I do, what should I tell them, fell guilty, and confuse how to make people believe what we feel.One thing that made me surprise is when he really encouraged me with his love and attention. One day, he took my hand and prays to God, he was pray for our friends, and even he said those names one by one, he prays that we will get through the hard time together, he said the words that I didn’t (or maybe never) expect before. He really encourages me, I felt so proud to have him. He really the man that I looking for, he is generous, kind, brave, encourages me, motivates me and loves God :) I didn’t know that he is the person that I looking for, so that’s a big bonus for me (thank God :) )

One day after we married, one of company called Jamin to come to meeting(my dream vacation company) around orlando in the morning, he said we got free tickects Cruis Line for 3 days 2 nights to Bahamas, then tickets to stay in Daytona Beach Resort, DVD Player, Gift Card from Bank of America and 2 tickets of Arabian Nights. I told him that it just sales / deceive thing that ussually happen. Jamin still wanna go to meeting and we did it. They offer us about invest something like timeshare for vacation, so every year we can go anywhere for vacation and it costs very cheap. We didn’t do for timesharing; we didn’t do any transaction / CC number etc. After we done it, I told to myself, well there you go Jamin, we didn’t get anything… Sudddenly the company did survey and he gave us a ticket to back to front desk to get those gifts, I was still sighing by myself, and then “ok, that’s funny. They will say ooo, we are sorry but your tickets bla bla bla” We walked to the front desk, and guess what? Yup, they gave the tickets for those things. Finally we proof it with Arabian Show + Dinner (real price : $60 each), and we don’t have to pay anything. Jamin and I just amaze with what God does. He blessed us very well until he gave us a gift like honeymoon to going to Bahamas and we still looking at the date and work schedule. I told him that I never get prize like this. I feel sooo blessed, feel amaze that God gave me a great husband and He provides us with anything we need. We put our trust together on Him. We believe God provides us with another gifts.

A couple days ago, I was really sick. Jamin really took care of me, he took me medicine, he cooked for my dinner (yeah, he can cook and its really nice). Unexpected, again God gives me another bless that I never thought before… That’s why everytime I wake up in the morning I always thankful that God gave him as a husband and He bless our marriage and our life :)
Thanks for all people who support us, thanks for all people who concern with us, thanks and I really appreciate it. I hope you know that why I kept this story, because I was afraid what people say and now I don’t care. This is my life, this is great news, happy news.. We don’t have a wedding party, we still waiting for his family to come here ( Orlando ) and maybe one of member of my family will be here around August. I would like to invite you later, so I will let you know later. Thanks for read this story and please pray and support us. Thank you and God bless you!

Jamin & Elaine Schipper