I went here with my ex fiancée, Sarah Jarvis, for the whole 2 hour block, plus my first ever Marriage Consultation of my life August 20 2023, and Sarah and I met with Bishop Marshall for this. It was a heaps heartwarming experience meeting with Bishop Marshall telling him my life story, my deeply embedded eternal love for Sarah Jarvis, and how much I hate my home nation of Canada.
Bishop Marshall made me feel really special and like a man of honor when he suddenly wrote my name on a piece of paper. Both the Temple Marriage, my Endowment Session was plotted to be on October 14 2023 at the Phoenix Arizona Temple, and the Wedding Reception was plotted to all happen the exact same day.
It was the day before the marriage consultation on the night of August 19 2023, I got down on one knee and asked her to marry me, and she said yes. It was below a hill near her parents house, and all 4 of her daughters, Natalee, Merry, Amelia, and Evangeline were there to witness the proposal.
I was so emotional when I proposed to Sarah that my voice went straight to crying down, and I nearly broke down into tears, and seconds after putting the Blue Raspberry Ring Pop on Sarah's finger, Amelia made the moment extra cute and memorable by coming by to take the Ring Pop off Sarah's finger so she could eat the candy off the Ring Pop. I will never forget how Amelia's eyes and smile lit up when I gave her advanced notice that I'm going to propose to her mother that very night.
I will never forget when Sarah discovered one day that Evangeline and I have the same eyes and on least two occasions, Evangeline pointing her two neighboring fingers on her left hand towards her eyes and saying enthusiastically, "Same eyes!!!"
Her kids though unfortunately not sealed to me, will be always be my Soul Daughters. It is through quality time spent with them and Sarah combined that I learned the love a father has for his daughters, and the love a father has for his children. Growing up in a broken home, I never knew how it felt to be loved. Merry was the first of the four kids, that I met on the first video call on July 26. The mutual connection I formed with all 4 daughters was instant, deep, miraculous and heartwarming. When I arrived with Sarah at her house, Amelia greeted me for the first time in real life, and I could see the joy in her eyes to see her future step father. Days prior, Amelia said to me and Sarah during a nightly routine video call in which she was there with Sarah during the call, "Why aren't you two boyfriend and girlfriend???" I instantly told Amelia that will happen once I arrive for my trip to meet her, Natalee, Merry and Evangeline on August 17. When Merry and Natalee arrived home from school on August 17, no different than on Sunday August 20 where we greeted each other with a long father daughter hug, was so happy to meet for the first time in real life since the premortal life where my father daughter bond was first established with her and I, and her other 3 sisters and I. The first time I told Merry I love her, she told me she loves me, too. Then I told her I always knew she loves me long before she ever said it. The same was said on reply by Amelia the the first time I told her I love her. Taking Evangeline on a Daddy Daughter Date the day I arrived in Phoenix, Thursday August 17 2023, was a special memory, forming a deeper father daughter bond connection with one of four daughters who I was preparing to soon become the step father of once Sarah and I were to marry on October 14 2023, had things gone according to plan. On the afternoon of August 19 2023, the same day I had proposed to Sarah, I went on a Daddy Daughter Date this time with Evangeline and Natalee in a mall in Tempe. One day in the Lord's own due time, He promised me all 4 of the daughters will be sealed to me in the Brisbane Australia Temple as their father. I love them and miss them as my daughters, and I pray for them and cry about them numerous times a week.
I will always LOVE Sarah, and she will indefinitely always have a special place in my heart.