Richard Roman:  

During high school, after school, I worked for the Southern California Gas Company as a Meter Mechanic in Pico Rivera. After graduation I attended Rio Hondo College and continued working for the Gas Company; I found myself more interested in making money. As more hours I worked, my grades suffered. I took a leave of absence and lived in Ecuador for a year where I met the most beautiful woman I have ever seen in my whole life (this person would become my wife four years later). I left Ecuador and returned to Whittier, graduating from Rio Hondo College and transferred to Cal Poly Pomona. "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want"; But I can't let this one young lady get away (my wife to be). I prayed and fasted like a mad man for this gal to be my wife. During this time I was attending college I was writing to my Missy in Ecuador (in Spanish) proposing marriage. I learned to love in prayer and fasting. I was all heart and open to counsel; the Lord was working in my life changing my way of living and the way I see life. The truth is back when I met my wife to be she was not that interested in me, but that was OK. She was newly engaged to be married, but she was not married yet. So this is where a guy would find hope. I was not looking for someone used, a basket case, with luggage, with hurt feelings. I was looking for this fine person, sweet, beautiful, loving and kind, with the love of God in her heart. To make a long story short, after three years of writing her, she writes me back saying she was not interested. And she also asks me why is it that I don't have a girlfriend where I am. I answered honestly and said, "I would not have one here because I would always like to be with her and things may get out of control. I am a college student attempting to study for a career to support a family. I explained to her that having a girlfriend here at church would make it difficult because it would be that I would go to church to see her and not to look for the Lord. And having hope knowing that she is in Ecuador gives me faith that 'He who started a good work in you is faithful to see it to the end'. I sent that letter off thinking it would be the last of her. I prayed and I cried. 45 Days later (snail mail) I...Expand for more