Miracles

October around here is super busy in our Stake....General Conference followed by Stake Conference followed by Stake Auxiliary Leadership Meeting and then Stake Woman's Conference.  And then we have a Ward Harvest Fair dinner!!  I really enjoy all of the happenings.  A chance to see so many and learn so much and feel the Spirit.

When I heard  Elder Nash speak at Sunday afternoon General Conference (By Faith All Things are Fulfilled) and related this miracle of 1856, I thought of a miracle in our Ward in 2007.  Just one month shy of a year ago I blogged about it but it is just as clear in my mind today as it was 5 years ago when it happened.

 Enjoy this excerpt from his talk and then go below to read of a modern day happening that matches this one.

The life of Ann Rowley, a pioneer woman in the early days of the Church, demonstrates how exercising faith impacts our lives for good. A widow from England, Sister Rowley exercised her faith to answer the prophet’s call to gather to Zion. She was a member of the Willie handcart company, which encountered deep snowdrifts along the trail in the fall of 1856. They had reached a point in the trek where her seven children were literally starving. She wrote: “It hurt me to see my children go hungry. … Night was coming and there was no food for the evening meal. I asked God’s help as I always did. I got on my knees, remembering two hard sea biscuits that … had been left over from the sea voyage. They were not large, and were so hard they couldn’t be broken. Surely, that was not enough to feed 8 people, but 5 loaves and 2 fishes were not enough to feed 5,000 people either, but through a miracle, Jesus had done it. So, with God’s help, nothing is impossible. I found the biscuits and put them in a dutch oven and covered them with water and asked for God’s blessing. Then I put the lid on the pan and set it on the coals. When I took off the lid a little later, I found the pan filled with food. I kneeled with my family and thanked God for his goodness. That night my family had sufficient food.”

http://acandlestick.blogspot.com/2011/11/pan-of-ham.html  

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