Sonya and Josh met on a website called Sovereign Grace Singles. Sonya came across Josh's profile several times and then on June 21, 2006 she first messaged Josh with "hey there". Sonya had thought they had previously conversed. Josh then responded with a lengthy email. Sonya was quite impressed and then realized that they hadn't actually spoken to each other before. Their emails continued and they realized that they had a lot in common including their love of liturgy, very rare for baptists to be liturgy lovers. Their first phone call lasted several hours and then they started talking more frequently. Sonya travelled down to South Dakota on American Thanksgiving to visit Josh and his family. There was an instant connection! She returned in February and they went ring shopping together. On February 14th Josh played the song "All I want is You" for Sonya and they danced together. Josh then got down on one knee and began to tell Sonya the things he loved about her. He then proceeded to tell Sonya that he felt called to the vocation of marriage. Sonya feeling equally called agreed to enter into engagement and become his wife.