Married!

Friends and family,

I'm married!

I married Tawnie Elizabeth Gadd on March 15th 2007. She is the most beautiful, wonderful girl I have ever known and brings joy to everyone she meets. For those of you that do not know her, I hope you all can meet her in the future and see in person her great spirit and attitude towards life.

We met swing dancing, and I proposed to her on May 15th 2007 on the steps of the same YWCA we first met dancing. We married each other on March 15th 2007 in the Chapel of the Sierra in Reno, and planned to have a bigger ceremony in the future. You can view photos of us at this website:

http://www.pathaugen.com/

Being with Tawnie has shown me what true love is, and by her example I have been shown the truth and brought closer to God whose teachings I stive to follow every day for the rest of my life.

I send this to all of you as we enter November which is an important month to me. November 15th is our six month anniversary and November 23rd is my 26th bithday!

I profess my love for Tawnie and my belief in Jesus Christ as my savior.

Marriage is about love and commitment. I know that for the rest of my days on Earth I will love Tawnie, and have committed myself to her for better or worse as long as we both shall live.

To those of you married or in relationships I encourage you to work on your relationship with Christ and find the fruits of the spirit grow within you which will help to strengthen your love for each other.

I live to show love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control with my wife and everyone else I meet (Galatians 5:22 - 5:23).

I have given up my own selfish desires as I move to a new chapter of my life with my wife Tawnie, and turn from trying to run my own company and my ambitions to be a professional dancer which is how most of you know me.

I enter a humble life where I live to be a provider for my family and lead a quiet life as God commands.

I have found my deepest desire is not the ambitions of my past to serve myself, not to be admired, not to even be on stage or to be famous in any way, but to have a family. This is my deepest desire.

Above everything else I thought I wanted in life, a family is what I desire more then anything.

Richard Stauss wrote a great book on marriage called 'Marriage Is for Love' which you can download and print this at the link below and I encourage you all to do so.

http://www.pathaugen.com/marriage.doc

I have learned a lot about the way God wants me to be, and how he wants me to be the best husband I can, and I thank other Christians I study with as they help me to better strengthen my walk with Christ.

I live for honesty and truth. I encourage you all to love one another and if you have any quarrels with anyone you know, go to them, communicate and heal those relationships and do not harbor bitterness in your heart (Matthew 6:14 - 6:15).

I love you all!

Feel free to forward this to other family members so that they may all know my love, and friends feel free to forward this to others that know me as well and share my testimony.

I wish to hold no secrets and to open my life to everyone so that you may all see the joy in my life!

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Patrick William Haugen
http://www.pathaugen.com/