A few months after being laid off from the job at the local municipality I decided to go to the nearby city to try to find a job. My aunt from Guam owned a small apartment building there and I was able to stay there with my younger brother who was going to school at the time. I looked for a job and submitted my resume to companies that I knew were hiring. At the time, I was reviewing my engineering education because I was planning on taking the engineering license exam. I also went online looking for jobs abroad. I was really desperate to get a job so I could help my parents pay my siblings’ tuition fees in college.

One time I got a phone interview from a call center somewhere in Manila, but it didn’t work out. My mother already told me that she didn’t want me to go back to Manila. She preferred that I look for a job closer to home. That was what I was trying to do but having little success.

At the time I was thinking about trying the online dating thing again but still very cautious after my first bad experience. I viewed several men’s profiles but didn’t send any messages or chat with anyone. One of the profiles on that dating site that I came across was an engineer from the state of Minnesota in the US. I liked this guy’s profile but I thought he would think that I was too young for him. After my bad experience with the Australian, I had decided to take my father’s advice and pray very specifically about the man I wanted to marry. I had prayed that I wanted to meet a tall engineer from the US who was older and much less likely to stray after other younger women like the Australian guy. Most important though, was that he must be a strongly committed Christian. This engineer from Minnesota fit my profile perfectly but I was too shy to contact him and never really thought that he would contact me. The next day, I checked my emails and got a message from that very same guy. I couldn’t believe it! 😉

After replying to his email, I immediately got kicked off from the dating site because I gave him my personal contact information which was against their rules. Fortunately, I already had his direct email address and he had mine. He sent me some money the very first week. I was surprised and I didn’t know why and what for. He said that it was for my internet expenses. On the first Sunday, only seven days after our first communications, I went to church. Well, actually when I was still in the Philippines every Sunday I went to church. Before the service, I began to pray and became convinced that he was the one for me. I was sure that he was the one that I wanted to marry. I didn’t know why but I felt at ease with him and trusted him almost immediately.

A few months after being laid off from the job at the local municipality I decided to go to the nearby city to try to find a job.  My aunt from Guam owned a small apartment building there and I was able to stay there with my younger brother who was going to school at the time.   I looked for a job and submitted my resume to companies that I knew were hiring.  At the time, I was reviewing my engineering education because I was planning on taking the engineering license exam.  I also went online looking for jobs abroad.  I was really desperate to get a job so I could help my parents pay my siblings tuition fees in college. 

One time I got a phone interview from a call center somewhere in Manila, but it didn’t work out.  My mother already told me that she didn’t want me to go back to Manila.  She preferred that I look for a job closer to home.   That was what I was trying to do but having little success.

At the time I was thinking about trying the online dating thing again but still very cautious after my first bad experience.   I viewed several men’s profiles but didn’t send any messages or chat with anyone.  One of the profiles on that dating site that I came across was an engineer from the state of Minnesota in the US.   I liked this guy’s profile but I thought he would think that I was too young for him.   After my bad experience with the Australian I had decided to take my father’s advice and pray very specifically about the man I wanted to marry.   I had prayed that I wanted to meet a tall engineer from the US who was older and much less likely to stray after other younger women like the Australian guy.  Most important though, was that he must be a strongly committed Christian. This engineer from Minnesota fit my profile perfectly but I was too shy to contact him and never really thought that he would contact me.  The next day, I checked my emails and got a message from that very same guy.  I couldn’t believe it! 😉

After replying to his email, I immediately got kicked off from the dating site because I gave him my personal contact information which was against their rules.  Fortunately I already had his direct email address and he had mine.  He sent me some money the very first week.  I was surprised and I didn’t know why and what for.  He said that it was for my internet expenses.   On the first Sunday, only seven days after our first communications,  I went to church.  Well, actually when I was still in the Philippines every Sunday I went to church.   Before the service, I began to pray and became convinced that he was the one for me.  I was sure that he was the one that I wanted to marry.  I didn’t know why but I felt at ease with him and trusted him almost immediately.