About two years later a young American woman entered the Meeting Room one evening and sat at the back. The young missionary felt he had seen her somewhere before, but at first he could not remember where he had seen her. Suddenly he remembered! She was the nurse who had given the "shots" when he was sick in La Paz.
She came every evening but left right away before he could get to the door to greet her. One evening he asked one of the brothers to close the meeting while he went down to the door before the meeting was over. He learned she had resigned from the "Board" that had sent her to Bolivia because the "Board" gave only a limited number of years to serve there, and, for this reason, had scheduled her to return to the States. In resigning she explained to the "Board" that she had come to Bolivia to serve the Lord and had learned to love the people and did not wish to return. Following her resignation she had come to Potosi to teach in the University.
She attended the Gospel Meetings every time there was a meeting. Although she and the missionary had a little visit after the meeting, with others present, they never even walked down the street together. It was not considered proper for a young man and woman to be seen together in public. However, the Lord had His eyes upon them to work together for Him amongst the Inca Indians.
A year later, in August, 1924, they were happily married in the Lord. They were able to find a little apartment in a two-story building on one of the cobbled streets in the city of Potosi. The lower section, or flat, was occupied by a Colonel and his wife and four children. The Colonel became friendly and listened attentively to what the young missionary told him as regards the gospel of Christ. We shall see in another story that he was later used of the Lord to help the missionary in a time of great trouble.