I was not surprised when she was the first one he dated and they ended up getting married. I was always very happy being a wife and a mother so i was happy for her that she had found someone to love and share her life with. Right before we did our vows, denise had prepared a song talking about how everything she wanted was in me, and that our marriage was going to be the kind she had always hoped for and dreamed for as a little child, and had a wonderful day. After the young couple settled in their hometown of peoria, illinois, denise went to work at an Insurance Company while nathan started a career in sales, but he could not shake a higher calling. For several years, he had dreamed of becoming a baptist missionary. In 1988, he finally seized the opportunity when another couple at their church began their own Missionary Work in lithuania