Eternal Marriage

This evening I attended the keynote speech of the annual Church History Symposium at BYU, given by Marlin K. Jensen.  In it, Elder Jensen told a story of a couple in Austria who met after WWII.  They both spoke German but wanted to learn English, so they courted by writing letters to each other in English everyday, and would read Shakespeare together at night.  After they were married in a Catholic church, one day he told her that they'd be together eternally.  She said she'd never heard of that before.  He said to her (not a direct quote, but exactly what I remember), "Well, if it's not there when we pass, they'll invent it for us!"  A few years later, when the missionaries knocked on their door, the first thing he asked them was what they taught about marriage and family.  The rest is history!  

I was so touched by this story!  It made me grateful for the gift I have of an eternal companion, and knowing there is 'more to life than what we see, and someplace yet to go, beyond where we have been!'