Engagement Pictures

Hey everyone, you can look at our engagement pictures online!

Just go to this link and search for our names and you'll find them.

http://www.visionspix.com/proofs.htm 

Have a GREAT day!

Cami

'Tis so Sweet to Trust in Jesus

Recently I have been thinking about the trust and what it truly means to trust Jesus. I guess since I am a people person, God likes to use people in my life to teach me different things. I have seen many examples of trust over the past few months and I wanted to sit down and write some of them out. It's amazing what we can learn from watching other people.

The first example of trust that I saw this summer was with my friend, Peter. We were at camp and he was going to get something out of the Prayer Chapel and he hit a speed bump and the wheelchair flip and he fell out of his chair. There he was laying on the ground with no one else around. I had to wonder what Peter was thinking in that moment? He couldn't get himself back in his chair and he didn't have any else around him at that time. God sent someone on Peter's path (actually my brother) and they got help and got him back in his chair, but I had to think what kind of trust that Peter has in God? It's huge. If that was me, I would have totally freaked out, but there Peter lay, calm and quiet just waiting for God to send him help. I wish I could trust like that.

The second example of trust is with Joseph's neighbor, Mike. Mike is blind and God brought him into mine and Joseph's life a few months ago. Our church was having a church picnic in July and we invited Mike to come with us. As I watched Joseph lead Mike to the car and tell Mike where he was, it really made me think, how much Mike has to trust. Mike had to trust that Joseph was really driving him to church like he said he was. Mike had to trust that at the picnic we weren't just going to leave him in the middle of Fort Wayne. He had to trust that we were really giving him food from the picnic and not somewhere else. It made me think about trust and how daily Mike blindly trusts people around him. I wish that I could trust God blindly in the same way.

Another example of trust that I saw this summer was with my friend, Brieanna. She is in a wheelchair and we hang out and do all sorts of fun stuff together. Well, Brieanna loves to swim so the other day she and I went swimming at Joseph's apartment and we forgot her floaties. She was really worried about that because her floaties really help keep her up. I told her that everything would be ok. I held her up in the water and we had a great time. When she got worried that the water was going to pull her down, I told her that everything was ok and that she could trust me. It made me think again about this issue of trust. Brieanna trusts me in the water to hold her up, how much more can I trust God fully and completely with my life.

Lastly I have seen this issue of trust being played out in my relationship with Joseph. In three months we are committed our lives together forever! I can't wait! I feel so blessed and honored to be able to be Joseph's wife. Sometimes I sit and think about how we have to trust each other. I have to trust that he is going to love me and keep his promise to me, and he has to trust me to do the same. I have to trust that the person that he is today is the same person that he is going to be tomorrow. I have to trust that when he says he loves me, he really means it. I know that in our own human efforts we will fail and we will be selfish and we will mess up. But I know that with God in us and working in our lives, we will be becoming more and more like Christ everyday and as we love Jesus more, we will love each other. I know that I can trust Joseph because of his relationship with God. And he can do the same. 

I can't imagine life without Jesus! Things can be so scary sometimes. Sometimes it feels like Mike, the blind neighbor, walking around and having to trust fully that "someone" else knows what's on the road ahead. Sometimes it's like Peter and I have to trust that God will bring the help that's needed when it's needed. And sometimes it's like Brieanna, having to trust that God's mighty Hands will hold me up above water and keep me safe and secure.

I wanted to end this post with this song:

'Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus,
and to take him at his word;
just to rest upon his promise,
and to know, "Thus saith the Lord."

Refrain:
Jesus, Jesus, how I trust him!
How I've proved him o'er and o'er!
Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus!
O for grace to trust him more!

2. O how sweet to trust in Jesus,
just to trust his cleansing blood;
and in simple faith to plunge me
neath the healing, cleansing flood!
(Refrain)

3. Yes, 'tis sweet to trust in Jesus,
just from sin and self to cease;
just from Jesus simply taking
life and rest, and joy and peace.
(Refrain)

4. I'm so glad I learned to trust thee,
precious Jesus, Savior, friend;
and I know that thou art with me,
wilt be with me to the end.

Trusting Jesus,

Cami Nicole

Joseph David...

Right now I am really missing someone who is so wonderful and amazing. He is everything that I have ever wanted in a husband. He is so kind and loving towards me and other people. He is a hard worker and a man of intergity. When I was younger I made a list of everything that I wanted in my future husband and he is all of those things. I am not saying that just because it sounds good, I am saying that because it is true.

He is a true servant and puts others ahead of himself. He has always been that way and so now that we are together he treats me like no one has treated me before. He has told me that he wants to serve me and treat me the best, and he does! He is respectful and humble.

It's hard to describe him. He has so many talents and good qualities. He is my friend, my love, and the man that I am planning on spending all of my tomorrows with.

He is the man that God clearly brought into my life at the perfect time. I met him on November 10, 2006 and we willl be married on November 15, 2008. God knew what He was doing when He took us through different things to make us the people that we are today.

On November 15th I will be marrying...

The man who makes me smile

The man who holds my hand

The man who loves me unconditionally

The man who listens to God

The man who I respect and love

The man who makes me a better person

The man who makes things so much fun

The man who shows me things I have never seen before

The man who is an example for me and others

I will be marrying Joseph David Gross, my best friend and the life of my life!

I love you, baby!

-Cami   

Will You Marry Me?

April 30, 2008

Joseph David Gross and Cami Nicole Reish

Joseph asked me to marry him in the most romantic way, just like he does everything else! He is so sweet and so kind. First of all the day started when he told me that he wanted us to dress up and go on a date. He pulls up to my house in a red Mustang that he rented for the day. It was so fun and so cute! I even loved driving that thing!

We drove around for a while and went to the park and took a walk and then he said that he wanted to get going so we didn't miss our dinner plans. He was kind of acting nervous, which is not normal for Joseph at all. We got to the place to eat and it was the same place that he took me out to on one of our first dates. We walked in and the people there were all happy and stuff to see us. I wondered if Joseph had been there early in the day or something. I looked and "our booth" said reserved on it. I just smiled as they walked us over to our booth. It was the same seat that we had been at the day that Joseph told me that he liked me and wanted to court me.

I looked at my spot at the table and there was a purple airplane. I knew right away what that meant. (If you don't know, Joseph is a pilot and he writes me little love notes and shapes them like airplanes and hides them for me. He knows that I love the color purple so I always am finding little purple airplanes from him. He's so sweet!) I looked at Joseph and he said to go ahead and read it. It was sweet like always and it said that if I wanted some more airplanes, then I should order a diet coke with cherry in it. (I always order that, and Joseph knew it.) The waiter brought out our drinks and this for me:

Attached was another purple airplane. It said that he loved me very much and that he had gotten something for me. He asked me to look into the purple rose and there inside was the most beautiful diamond ring in the world!

He got down on one knee and asked me if I would marry him. I said YES! Everyone in the place was enjoying this and our waiter was all excited for us. It was awesome. Joseph told me later that he was not nervous about asking me to marry him, but he was nervous because he had just left the ring at the restruant and didn't want anything to happen to it before he brought me there.

It was so sweet and romantic and wonderful! Better than I could ever have dreamed because it was straight from his heart and had so many little special meanings and messages for me. I am so blessed and I can't wait to be Joseph David Gross' wife on November 15th!

-Cami Nicole

Picture Update

Wow, I haven't been on here forever. Here are some pictures of the last month:

Let's see....well first we had a little celebration in December with our family and the Liechty family for Joshua and Nathan, and Lisa's birthdays. It was a lot of fun just to sit and talk and laugh with everyone about how silly we were when we were younger! LOL

Then came my birthday...that was fun. Yes people I am old...I am now 20!

Then Christmas...that was a lot of fun!

New Years was fun too.

Then in January we had a banquet for Joni and Friends and the Leadership Getaway for the Leadership team at Oakwood. That was really good and it was great to see old JAF friends!!!

That's my picture update for now. Hope you enjoyed it!

Cammers