It was just the beginning of a new year when me and my husband faced the toughest time of our 8 years relationship. We both had emotional affairs and just confessed to one another, and I told myself we both had dirty our relationship so much, there was no turning back and the best thing to do was get a divoce. I want more than anything to get out of our marriage. I just didnt have the courage to because I was frighten of being alone and raising our two young children without a home with a mom and a dad. We had started marriage counseling because my husband did not want a divorce and at first I did not want to go, because in late 2008 I asked him to go and he at that time rejected to going. We finally started going in late March, early April. Our marriage counseling were faith based biblical couseling. We did attend counseling weekly, and were making slow progress. My husband was listening to a local radion station 89.7 and he heard of a conference called " Weekend to Remember." This conference was going to be held on the weekend of our 6 years wedding anniversary on May 4. We did not have money finacially to attend so we decieded to not go but planned to go later on this year some other time. The conference was a week away and my husband had just got paid and his check was more than what we had budget for, so he bought the tickets and made reservations for our hotel stay. He suprised me and told me on Thursday. It had been a really rough week for us and I was so tired of all the fighting and crying, I remember praying to God that week and I told him that I had no more hope I was now giving up and I asked him for forgiveness.Well...GOD is so merciful and he provided for us financially to attend this conference. The conference was my last resort to save our marriage. It was PERFECT, we got to spend time alone together without our kids and reconnect. One thing I always wanted to do, was to go to San Francisco. Well, one of the homework for the conference was for us to go on a date, my husband drove us to San Francisco and we had dinner at a seafood restuarant in San Francisco, where I ate the best seafood pasta ever in my life. It was the last day of the conference and it was sad for us to leave because we enjoyed it sooo much but we were excited to start applying what we heard. Right before the conference was over, the speaker asked every couple that if they felt comfortable to stand up and renew their vows that he would walk us through it and give us marriage certificate. On our 6 years wedding anniversary we renewed our vows to one another. It was one of the happiest day of my life, right next to the day we actually got married, and this conference really helped saved our marriage. We made a promise to each other and to God, that we were going to live for God and fully put our trust in him. We learned how to love each other the way God wanted us to from this conference. The conference opened our eyes to things that we taken for granted in one another. It was really a weekend to remember.....for us and we enjoyed it so much. God works in such wonderful ways and we are so blessed for these trials that he has placed before us to draw us closer to him. We are so thankful that we went through all this at such a young age so we can have the rest of our life to give our life back to God and serve him and his people. Thank you so much Family for Life for the weekends to remember conference.
Conference Dates: 05/01-05/03/2009 Location: Santa Clara, CA
