How I met my love
Posted on June 20, 2008 by Jamie Larsen, under The Larsens.
I returned from my mission in Norway in September 1996. I started right into school at Utah Valley State College (just around the corner from where I grew up in Orem, UT). I also got a great job at Nu Skin working as a call center employee. I started dating a girl that I knew from before my mission. I wasn’t in a real hurry to get married, but thought that we would date for awhile. She then decided to go home to Las Vegas and get ready to serve as a missionary herself. While at home, she met a guy and got married shortly after.
During this time, a Norwegian family moved down the street from my parents. The mom and kids were all members of the Church, but the father was not. I started visiting them with the sister missionaries that were serving in my area. This is how I met my beautiful wife Kaylene Meldrum. She was one of the sister missionaries. I didn’t get to see her very often, because her companion had a crush on me and went with me to the appointments with another member of the church. I didn’t know at this time that Sister Meldrum (as she was called on her mission) would be my wife someday. Nothing happened while she was a missionary (it is against the rules to date while you are a missionary). Luckily, her mission came to an end shortly after we met.
Kaylene is from Ypsilanti, Michigan where she returned for a couple of months in October 1997. Before she left her mission, I gave her a letter with my testimony in it about the church. I also mentioned in the letter that it would be great if we could keep in touch. I didn’t hear from her for a few weeks, but when she finally called, I was ecstatic. We probably talked on the phone every night after that until she finally decided to move to Utah in January 1998.
We dated for a few months and decided it was a right time for us to get married. I proposed to her in March 1998 and we got married on August 15, 1998 in the Mount Timpanogos Temple in American Fork, Utah. We have had our share of adventures since being married, and I still love her like the first day that we met. I am glad to have her in my life and have grown since knowing her. I am grateful to be married to such a wonderful women who also believes in Jesus Christ. Her testimony in him has made my testimony grow. We share his life in common and I am grateful to have her in mine.