I don’t know if it’s powerful, but the first guy that proposed to me. He did it here at the Durban temple grounds. And, you know, I had prayed about it and it wasn’t coming. And I was like, “He’s really a sweet guy,” there was nothing wrong with him, really there was nothing wrong with him. He was a nice guy, he tried his best, was studying law, was taking care of his family, working on the side. You know he was just like a genuinely good guy, and he’d just come back from a mission, and I prayed about it, and, you know, I didn’t get an answer.
And we went to the temple, and I didn’t know he was coming that day and he did. He proposed, and I just felt literally just, it was like calmness, but it was a no. At that, I knew that I couldn’t marry him.
Yeah, it was just a blatant, basic, “No.” It was hard to tell him no, because I didn’t have a reason, because I liked him. You know, he was a good guy. I liked him, and this is my fiancé’s friend. [laughs] He was a good guy. And they’re still friends to this day. Yeah, I said no, no one understood why. And I think that’s where the rumor that “[narrator name] has commitment problems” comes from.