The Prologue

Here is our story so far.

Jennifer Brown had just graduated from Converse College with a degree in computer scicence. She was unsure if she wanted to continue her education or if she wanted to begin a career immediately after school. An opportunity to begin a Master’s at RPI on a full scholarship convinced her to move to Troy, New York where she began going to church at the local young single adult’s branch in August of 2010.

Tyson VanDerwerken had just graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in English. After graduating and coming to terms with the bleak prospects of job opportunities for English majors, he decided to pursue a career in funeral directing. He moved back to his hometown of Schoharie, New York and enrolled at Hudson Valley Community College in Troy, New York and began attending church at the local young single adult’s branch in December of 2010.

Every time Jennifer attempted to talk to Tyson, he would reply in a polite, albeit brief, manner but failed to really engage her in a conversation. Jennifer assumed this was Tyson’s way of expressing disinterest in a friendship. In actuality, Tyson truly didn’t want to be Jennifer’s friend, but only because he thought she was eighteen and he wasn’t interested in being friends with a teenager.  Because he never talked to her, he didn’t discover she was actually twenty three and working on her post graduate work until April of 2011. He asked her out the next weekend.

Thankfully, Jennifer wasn’t too frustrated as to decline the invitation. They had an amazing first date on Friday, April the 22^nd. Then they had an amazing second date the next weekend, followed by a third amazing date the next. By that point they were seeing each other five to six days a week.  It didn’t take long for either of them to determine they had met someone very special, or to realize they were falling in love.

On August 5^th, 2011 Tyson proposed to Jennifer on the same spot he asked her to be his girlfriend. She accepted and both Jennifer and Tyson are excited beyond words to be wed for time and all eternity on November 18^th, 2011 in the Boston, Massachusetts LDS temple.