On July 17^th I made vows in front of God, my family and friends to stay by Travis’ side in sickness and in health, in joy and in sorrow and in the good times and the bad. I promised to love him without reservation, comfort him in times of distress, encourage him to achieve his goals, laugh with him and cry with him, grow with him in mind and spirit, always be open and honest with him and cherish him for as long as we both shall live.

God blessed us with an incredibly gorgeous day and our ceremony was everything we wanted it to be and more. Everyone who was involved did an amazing job at making our day so special. From the words the pastors said to the beautiful blessing that was poured over us…our day was wonderful! 

The day definitely flew by and before I knew it all those months of planning and organizing our special day was behind. It really is crazy how much work goes into a wedding but in the end I found it all worthwhile. Though I have not had the time to change my name I consider myself Mrs. Gosselin and now my life begins with a husband by my side.

Travis and I took off to Mexico for our honeymoon and stayed down in the Maya Riviera. It was a wonderful week where we could relax after such a busy time. We did take advantage and spent two days doing excursions. We went on ATVs through the jungles, went zip lining over lagoons with crocodiles, got to hold snakes, went swimming in under water caves, went snorkeling and went to Mayan Ruins. It was such an adventure and it was so much fun to do it together and to create new memories together. We were blessed to be able to do all we did!

Now we are back home and getting back into our routines. I love that I never have to say good bye to Travis at night and that we are able to live in the same place now. I love the times that we have already had and know there will be so many more great times together. I know this is just the beginning and it is so exciting. It is fun cooking together and organizing our house together. It still seems weird to think it is ours but it is. 🙂

I am so incredibly happy right now!!! Travis has been such a romantic and amazing husband to me. I feel so blessed to have him in my life and I am so incredibly blessed to know that he is the one that I get to share my days with now. It is one of those happy feelings you just can’t really describe. 

Though my life is full of great things right now I do not forget what my life was once like and how I once was filled with so much hurt and confusion. I do not remember it to hold on to past things of my life but to remind myself that there are many out there that are filled with pain and that need to have some hope in their lives. I remember to remind myself that God is not done with me yet and that He is still using me and wants to continue using me to touch others. Yes I am married now but that does not change who I am or how I want to help others.

So what is next for me and how can you help me?

I have been asked to speak to the junior youth at my church and share my testimony on August 29^th. I would ask you to please pray for me as I prepare this. I know it is my testimony and it should be easy to share but this is my first time speaking to youth that young and I want to make sure that I use words and share my story in a way that is going to impact a younger crowd.

As well Travis and I continue to be busy with Nexus.  Right now we are focusing on building a young adults group within our church. We want to plan a couple of events where we see who the core group is and then from there we want to start a study in the fall that will be held at our place every other week. Pray for us that we really will reach to those young adults in the church that we may have not even seen before. Our church is growing and that is awesome to see but it is hard to not miss people and I just hope that we aren’t missing any one who really needs a group to connect to. We know that with school beginning again it means that there will be new young adults that will be moving to the area so please pray that we will reach those young adults as well.

Now that the wedding is over it is time to start looking into publishing my book. It is still kind of scary to think of publishing my book because I know there are risks involved in publishing it but I know this is what I have to do so please pray for me that I would have a peace about it and that everything involved in publishing a book would go smoothly.

Thank you for reading this long message and for being willing to be a part of my life. Thank you to those of you who continue to believe in me and who continue to support me through prayer or financially, both are so very important. There is a lot that money can do but there is so much power in prayer.