Why God?

 Hello everyone!! We had such a cool week this last one.

   Last Monday night, we had the most amazing experience. We went and visited this guy named Kale, who we met a few days earlier. While we were there, his friend John was visiting him. Real quick into the conversation, John told us that his wife had been killed a few weeks before while grocery shopping. It was awful and he just kept asking "why god" over a thousand times. He was bawling and honestly we were all in tears. We read Mosiah 3:19 and talked about why we go through trials and how christ comforts us. But he was so distraught. He was so mad at God, and honestly for really good reason. 

   The idea then popped into my head to have us just kneel down together and pray. To pray and ask to feel God's love and comfort. So we knelt down and put our arms around each other and started to pray. It was a super simple prayer just asking God to be with us, to help John feel His love and comfort. The spirit was SO STRONG and after we said amen, John fell on the ground and was just uncontrollably sobbing. We grabbed him by the hand and helped him up, and he said he had never felt God's love stronger. It was a super special experience.

   Jaylon, one of our friends preparing to be baptized, is doing okay haha. She was doing great at the beginning of the week, and she was flying through the Book of Mormon. Everything was going great but then we didn't get ahold of her at all on Friday, Saturday or Sunday. Late last night she texted us saying that she's trying to "sort some things out". So we don't know totally what's going on, but please pray for Jaylon!

   Our friend Patrick is now on date for May 28th! We're really excited for him. Other than that, we've been teaching lots and talking to tons of people. It's been going great and I love it here!

   One cool thought this week that I had came while I was studying the beatitudes. It talks about christ filling those that hunger and thirst after righteousness, because he is the Bread of Life and the Living Water. Its amazing how he fills us and quenches our spiritual thirst. Love yall! Talk to ya next week.

Love, Elder Ryan