Eye opening experience

I have learned so much this past year and so very happy I did. I had a great time meeting some wonderful LDS guys. Some made me laugh, smile, helped me understand men better :) and much, much more, and 2 even put my faith to the test...but with prayer, scriptures, temple, fasting and the love and support of family and friends I came through. I have learned the importance of forgiveness and to ask forgiveness and to repair towards Father and the person involved. I had a very eye opening experience here in LDS mingle and most of it was positive. I knew from personnal revelation that my king was an American one and I am so happy the Lord has put him on the path where I was looking " LDSMingle " :) And now the most BEAUTIFUL event has finally happened :) A worthy son of Heavenly Father (truly worthy) came along and took me away from this lonely single world :) He made me believe in love again, made me trust again, made me happy and full of joy again. He made me feel dreams CAN happen if we open our hearts to trust and faith and not let doubt and fear close the door to happiness. He taught me perseverance and gave me strength after a heartbreaking trial. He showed me what really counted in life...love, honesty, integrity, inner beauty and eternal progression, :) What a wonderful, spiritual, loving man, I am grateful to Heavenly Father for sending him to rescue me. He understands Father's plan perfectly and knows the importance of finding and keeping love when it comes our way. I love you Bryan :) Thanks most of all Heavenly Father for His infinite love and patience and understanding and grace with me, His imperfect daughter. May all of you who truly seek eternal love and happiness find it soon :)


SoftSpokenMarie

refreshing to get to know each other

Thank you for your congratulations. Yes, I did find my fiance through
the mingle. I think our story is unique and beautiful. We are both widowed and have children, he has 3, I have 4. We both went on the mingle to hopefully look for other people in our situation who were LDS who we could talk to and make friends with. There aren't a lot of us out there who are young, widowed and LDS. So I think he smiled at me first and then we started emailing. The emailing turned into phone conversations and more in depth emails, and letters, and flowers, etc.
etc. You can guess the rest! We were able to connect on such a deep and intimate level through emailing and it was so refreshing to get to
know each other from the inside out, instead of the other way around.
We finally met each other a couple weeks ago and everything we felt was confirmed even more for both of us. He is from Pennsylvania and I am
from Oregon. That is the only difficult thing, but we are planning to marry in November and we are so excited to join our families together.
I don't have a photo of us right now, only seperate but I will send you one when we get some back. We are both so grateful for this service.
I'm not sure how we would have found each other otherwise. But, we are both certain that our paths were meant to cross and we owe so much of it
to you. Thank you!

LDSMingle was the instrument for our happiness

Hello everyone!!
I am flagofpeace, he is giovanni. We met here last year. I am from Brazil and he lives in Utah. We got marriaged last november and we are witnesses nothing is impossible to Lord. When He wants, we can all things.
We are sure we knew before this life and all things we lives before we meet again it was to be more perfect our life together. My son is very happy too. LDSMingle was the instrument for our happiness and I would like to thank so much this opportunity.
When we are satisfied with the Savior's Plan for our lives, we will be more and more happy each day because we are grateful. I can be grateful because I am happy, but I can be more happy because I am grateful. And the Lord wants this for his kids. All of them.

it was the best decision I ever made to join your site.

I joined your site on a fluke and did not really think anything would come of it. After a difficult experience with another member on your site, I was a little reluctant, but his support me and gave me the time I needed to come around. I now realize
We first met in person in early October
and from the first date we hit it off and knew there was something there. He traveled from Virginia to see me for a few weekends and we continued to talk online and on the phone. One thing led to another and we knew through prayer that we were mean't to be. Now, we cannot imagine our days without each other and are planning an April wedding. He has since relocated to where I live and secured and job and place to stay in the area.
Thank You!
Sincerely,
Kimberly

formed a bond so strong

Here's a story
of a lovely lady.
Who was widowed
with 3 girls and a boy.

She had friends
and lots of loving family.
But still bereft of joy.

Here's a story
of a handsome fellow.
who was widowed
with 2 boys of his own.

He worked hard
to raise his little family.
But still felt all alone.

Then this lady
found this fellow
on the Mingle
they laughed and cried,
and formed a bond so strong
that they knew
that all their prayers were answered
and that is why you have to read
this rip-off song.

Mr. and Mrs. Ibrokemyguitar

LDS Singles Dating on the internet.....

I have always had a strong dislike for the thought of meeting people on the internet, at least until this last spring. When I was in Jr. High, I met a girl on the internet and we chatted and emailed a lot. We seemed to be really good friends. Then after a while she said that her and her mother were coming down to Utah to see her sisters who were attending BYU. I invited them to come to my house and I would feed them lunch on a Saturday. They arrived, and it was the mom who seemed to know everything about me, but the girl was dead silent the whole afternoon. I kind of got the idea that the mom had more involvement in our friendship than the girl did, in a very dishonest way, and I felt pretty violated. I then ended any "social activity" on the internet I was involved in, and made fun of anyone when I heard they met someone they really liked on the internet. So after I graduated high school, I went on a mission to Texas.I came home two years later and soon after got a job in sales. I heard a few people talking about their experiences meeting people on your website, and just as I did before my mission, I mocked them. I gave them all sorts of jive about, "What kind of a person do you expect to find on the internet anyway? Only desperate losers meet on the internet! You might as well get yourself a mail-order bride from Russia!" More and more I heard people talking, at work, and other places as well, about their experiences with your website. Finally, my best friend was even finding dates and having fun because of LDSmingle.com So, in the back of my mind, I thought, "I guess if I ever have time, I'll check it outOne day, I was buying stuff on the internet and trying to get help on a subject I can't remember. I was about to turn off the computer when I was finished, but I thought, "Wait, I guess I'll check out that LDS dating thing." So I went to the site and made myself a profile thinking, "What's the worst that could happen? I might get all of about one date off of this thing, but I don't picture it getting any deeper in trouble than that."I answered the questions, filled in the blanks, etc. and even took the personality test. (I don't know why I took my time to fill it all out so well. I wasn't even hoping to meet someone, I just wanted to check it out. But when all was done, I clicked something that instantly found me women that fit my criteria.And there she was on the first page or two! briarrose24 She looked really cute and by her profile, I could tell she was special. So I sent her a smile, the one that said, "Your profile made me smile, so I'm sending you one in fair exchange." The next day, I went to get on my computer, and it crashed! So I had to go to a library 15 minutes away just to use the internet, which I did for a month or two. I got a smile back from her the day after I "smiled" at her that said, "I'm not very good at flirting, but could I practice with you?" I thought, "Wow! This girl is spicy, and she even liked my profile enough to respond?!?!" Somewhere inbetween here and the next paragraph I actually signed up for the full membership benefits.In reply, I sent her an E-Card, the one with roses on it and a message that said., "I would have gotten real flowers, but the lady was home where I usually get them." She responded with the thank you one with yellow flowers on it.I really wanted to meet her, so I sent her the smile that says, "In case you're not a subscriber, I hope you become one soon." To which she responded with the one that said, "I think we'd enjoy writing each other...interested?" How was I supposed to write her if she didn't have a full benefits membership? I couldn't send her any personalized messages at all because she only had the free type. Was she mocking me? Just toying with me because she knew I'd never find her?Somehow, I got a clue and remembered her profile said she lived in the Provo area, so I looked her up in the phone book and wrote her a letter hoping the girl in the phone book was the same girl I was trying to communicate with. The letter got to her just in time, because she had moved to a new address, and the people in her old place forwarded her the letter just before they moved out and the house was bulldosed down. Sure enough, it was her, and she gave me her email address.We emailed for a week or so, and even though we could email, she wrote me a letter to reply to my first one, and asked when we met, what did I want to do? But before it even came in the mail, I asked her out on a date in an email. She replied and said she'd love to, and just happened to mention she had a softball game at some park at a certain time. I didn't know where that park was, but when I looked at my watch, I realized her game was about to start. It was a Friday night, and I had just gotten off of work, and had nothing important to do for the rest of the evening anyway, so I did some detective work (called the recreation center of that city) and asked them where that park was. I bought us some Gatorades at a gas station on the way and when I found the park, there were no players on the field that looked like the picture in her profile. I was discouraged. But there was a girl on the bleachers who was one of the only fans there. The game was being played between two companies, so I asked her if she knew if this company only had one team, and she said yes. So when I finally realized which one was the girl I was looking for, I suddenly felt a bit intimidated and shy because she was even more beautiful that her picture I had seen on LDSmingle. I was tempted to just go home and wait to see her until our date the next day, but something made me stay. When she finally came into the dugout from the field, I said, "Hey Rorie! Are you thursty?" She held her hand above her eyes to look and see who it was talking to her, and when she realized who I was, she came over and we talked for a while. We had our first date the next day, and then I had to leave on a trip to California for a week. We missed each other pretty bad already. When I came back, we went on another date. Then a few dates down the road, I asked her if she'd like to be more than just friends. She said, "Yes, I'd like that!" As if she were saying, "Yes you idiot! That's what I've been trying to squeeze out of you for quite some time now. It's about time!" We've dated for about 5 1/2 months now and I asked her to marry me this last Monday night after we got back from a trip down to New Mexico to meet her family, where I asked her dad for his aproval of us getting married. ( He obviously gave the answer I was hoping for. She even said, "Yes" as well.) We haven't set a date yet, but we're hoping for some time in the late spring or early summer of next year.Thanks for everything!