Memories of Couples Meeting by Melissa

Craig & Melissa, Est. 2001
Part 1, "Before They Even Met the Magnets of Love Were Dragging Them Together"

Craig was on his mission in Puerto Rico when his fate was decided by a group of six giggly freshman girls.

Melissa was a freshman living in Helamen Halls, where she had made several close friends. They decided to all move into the same apartment the following fall, when they would no longer be freshman, and of course, would rather admit that they all wore padded bras rather than be caught living with next year's newbies.

They scoured every available apartment, but they were poor and had to be close enough to manage without vehicular transport, and so they were forced to settle on the bright pink Park Place Apartment complex. They trudged down to the apartment office one snowy January morning to sign their souls over to a Provo-style contract system. While waiting in line for the coveted opportunity to own one-sixth of an apartment for the next year (whether they lived there or not--or unless their "contract for sale signs" that they posted in the campus bathroom stalls actually worked), Melissa's friend Sarah Rasmussen announced that her brother and five of his friends would be returning from their missions in August, and had asked us to rent out an apartment for them as well. So the girls got their apartment (Park Place 10) and they forged six missionaries' signatures for another apartment two doors down (Park Place 8). As they committed forgery, they laughed and wondered if any of them would end up marrying any of these strangers (Jake, Clint, Craig, Tyler, Eric, or Paul).

Little did they know that what was to come of these strange guys living two doors down would keep Melissa laughing and enjoying life, make Caryn the first bride of the group, make an ex-girlfriend glare down from her bedroom window, and cause Sarah to throw a tantrum--kicking, screaming, crying, and cursing--on her bedroom floor.