Our 1st Anniversary

As I wrote in a previous blog the 28th was our first anniversary and we went to Maui for the weekend. We left on Saturday morning and and was supposed to come back on Monday afternoon, but we ended up staying an extra day because we were just having too much fun!

Our highlights from the trip include: breakfast at Kihei Cafe',

a sunset dinner cruise,

krispy kreme doughnuts,

the Hana Highway, getting a shower from the Nakalele' blow hole, and hiking down to jump into a waterfall! We will have so many great memories from this trip. It was such a good time for us to get away and just remember the commitment we made to one another one year ago!

There was however, a quite dramatic experience that happened on Monday, the day of our anniversary. Josh and I had decided to hike down to a waterfall that had a pool at the end that you could jump into.... We get down to the bottom and there was a tour guide who told us where and how to jump.... Josh was so excited!!!

So Josh climbs to the top and jumps in.... when he came up his first words are " Tiffany you are going to kill me" ( not exactly what I was expecting him to say after fulfilling one of his adventurous dreams) he said that he lost his wedding band. At first I thought I was hearing him wrong and the realization that he had just lost his wedding band in a dark pool of water on our first anniversary really got to me. I started to bawl. I was bawling so hard it was uncontrollable.( Josh's band is custom made with hebrew writing on it that says " I am my beloved's and she is mine" ) People got their snorkels out and tried to look for it, but after a heavy rain you could not see through the murky water. I was so upset and so was my poor husband.

There was a nice local guy there with his wife who were prawn fishing. The guy kept looking but had no luck, the woman asked for my number and said if he found it she would call me. Josh and I left to go call a metal detecting company. As we entered town in search of a phone book the woman called me. She said " Tiffany, we found your husband's ring" . I could not believe it. Josh and I had both been praying but it was just too good to be true. So we drove back up the mountain to meet the people with the ring.

The guy said that he got out of the water and he prayed that the Lord would help him find the ring for us. Then suddenly he felt the Lord telling him to go to the deepest part of the water. So he dove down deep and there was something shining through all the mud. He said "God placed it in his hand" He was so happy that he found it and so were we!!!!! After we left them they called shortly after to ask what the writing on the ring meant and to wish us a happy anniversary and many more! This may sound small to you but to us, it was a miracle. And such and amazing testimony of God's love for us and the power of prayer! 3 days away, yet so many lessons learned! Thank you Lord for your continued faithfulness!