Welcome to This is The Gospel, an LDS living podcast where we feature real stories from real

people who are practicing and living their faith every day.

I'm your host, Corinne Lay.

It's the week of Valentine's Day and for some people, it's a light-hearted celebration

of all the love in our lives.

But for others, this holiday can bring expectations that are hard to meet, or it might remind

us of the ways that love hasn't worked out as we might have hoped.

Well, whether you adore or dread the Candy Hard holiday, I think as people of faith, we

can all agree that love and family are some of God's greatest gifts in this life.

And it's actually nothing short of a miracle when two people find their match.

This week, we're celebrating those miracles with four stories from couples who saw the

hand of God at work in bringing them together.

We'll let our storytellers take it from here.

Our first story comes from Ryland and Diana.

I remember praying as I please help me to find a wife and get married.

And then I remember feeling pretty strongly that for me, specifically at that time, rather

than praying that I would get married, is that I should pray to recognize the person

who I should marry.

I was really, really busy.

I didn't even realize that I hadn't been on a date in forever.

And so I actually prayed to be able to go on a date.

Because I was like, or at least to have some ideas of what I could do.

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