Oh boy I’ve got 7 good ones for you here. They are 7 stories that don’t have much in common except for their little-known status and their faith promoting possibilities. It also kind of shows that God will go after the one.





But sometimes he will also go after the entire tribe:





1) A Dream Leads to the Conversion of the Shoshone Indians





"Ten years after the Bear River Massacre of 1863, in which more than 300 Shoshone men, women, and children were killed by U.S. troops, a Shoshone elder had a dream. Chief Sagwitch, a survivor of the 1863 massacre, and other tribal elders felt the dream was inspired and was instructing the tribe to join The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. After discussing the matter in great detail, the went looking for a Latter-day Saint (“Mormon”) man whom they trusted, George Washington Hill, who lived in Ogden, Utah.





"After obtaining permission from Church president Brigham Young, Hill travelled to the tribal lands and performed 102 baptisms and confirmations that day. Over the next four years, nearly 1,200 more people were baptized from the Shoshone tribe as well as other tribes in the Intermountain West. Most of these people eventually settled in Washakie in Box Elder County, Utah, and learned to cultivate the land and become independent. The U.S. government tried to force the Native Americans to move to the reservation in Fort Hall, but Brigham Young refused to let them be booted. Many of their descendant are still in the area. Many descendants express gratitude to their ancestors for converting and learning these techniques, claiming that their culture was preserved and their freedoms protected by not being forced onto a reservation." ( https://historyofmormonism.com/2009/08/27/native-americans/ )









This one describes the early days of the Church in Mexico. Lots of revelation going on in this paragraph:





2) Desideria Quintanar Dreamt of a Printing Press





“In 1880, Desideria Quintanar de Yañez was sixty. She lived in a small Hidalgo village about 75 miles north of Mexico City. One night she dreamed of a pamphlet being printed in Mexico City—Voz de amonestación (A Voice of Warning). She sent her son, Jose Maria on what must have seemed like a wild goose chase to find the men printing the pamphlet. After hunting “for a long time” he found a Mormon elder correcting printer’s proofs for the pamphlet and expecting him to arrive. Desideria would have to continue to wait for A Voice of Warning, but the other pamphlets sent with Jose were enough for the moment. She too knew he had been successful by revelation and anticipated Jose’s return. She would become the first woman baptized a member in the mission.” ( https://www.fairmormon.org/conference/august-2017/restoring-the-tapestry )





Here's another one heavy on revelation – a dream linking to a reader’s digest, of all things:





3) Anthony Obinna Toured the SLC Temple in A Dream





“Anthony Obinna was raised in a very traditional African family and had little knowledge of Christianity. However, in early 1966, he had a dream in which he was visited by a personage who took him to a beautiful building and showed him everything in it.





Reader’s Digest. He opened it and saw a picture of the same beautiful building he had been shown in his dream. The heading was “The March of the Mormons.” He had never heard the word “Mormons” before, but he started to read the story because of the picture of the building. He discovered that the article was all about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. “One day, he picked up an old September 1958 copy of the. He opened it and saw a picture of the same beautiful building he had been shown in his dream. The heading was “The March of the Mormons.” He had never heard the word “Mormons” before, but he started to read the story because of the picture of the building. He discovered that the article was all about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.





“Brother Obinna stated: “From the time I finished reading the story, I had no peace of mind any longer. My whole attention was focused on my new discovery. I rushed out immediately to tell my brothers, who were all astonished to hear the story.”” ( https://africasoutheast.lds.org/beautiful-building-in-his-dream )





Not many people have an experience seeing the Lord – awake or in a dream. Fewer put it to paper. Luckily, Robinson had a quill, paper and time to write:





4) Joseph Lee Robinson Sees Christ





“I remarked that I had prayed earnestly to the Lord, and that I had received a testimony

that God would pour out his Spirit and cause a reformation in this place, which came to

pass a few years after. Also I saw the Lord in a bright vision soon after I was baptized

into the Church of Jesus Christ. It seemed to be just as I knew Him as soon as I saw Him.

He turned and came to the house. He was a man as he was when He was upon the

earth. He was a beautiful, heavenly man. He had a new book, white and clean. He held

some argument with some of the family. His appearance, questions and answers were

well worthy the Son of God. After He had been there awhile, I met Him in the door and

embraced and kissed Him. He did me also. I asked Him some questions. He answered

them very wisely and then He was gone. I was the only one that knew Him, but I knew I

had seen my Saviour, Jesus, and I was glad I defended the truth which they called Mor-

monism boldly and manfully and was faithful and very much devoted to the cause of





This one I really like, but then I have a soft spot for mysterious, out of nowhere, visitor stories. Stories like these ones. It fits in perfectly:





5) Gustavus Adolphus Perry Had A Strange Visitor





“Elder [L. Tom] Perry’s great-great-grandfather, Gustavus Adolphus Perry, and his family shared in a wonderful experience while living in Lewis Essex, New York, in 1830, which ultimately prepared them for the coming of two Mormon missionaries two years later. In the Perry family history is written:





““The front door opened and they heard someone coming through the house toward the kitchen where the family was assembled. When he entered they saw that it was an old man with a white flowing beard. Although it was a stormy night there were no signs of raindrops on his clothes. He said, ‘God bless you’ and asked for food and if he could spend the night with them. Although they were poor and had little bread they gave him food and shelter. When he came in he had a knapsack on his back with a little pup which he gave to the children to play with. During the evening he took from his pocket a book from which he read to them, telling them it was soon to come forth and telling them to get one at their first opportunity. As he was leaving them the next morning he promised them that they would never want for bread, which promise was literally fulfilled. That very day a man who owed them some money asked if they would take wheat for the debt.





““Sometime after the visit of the old gentleman two elders came with a Book of Mormon and the family obtained one. In reading the book they recognized passages of scripture the stranger had read to them on the night of his visit. In the year 1832, the family joined the LDS Church.”” ( https://latterdaysaintmag.com/when-an-unusual-messenger-brought-news-of-the-book-of-mormon/ )





This next one is different from the rest. It is a Near Death Experience – kind of like these ones

I wish I could say who experienced it, but I can’t. Google’s not helping there. I can tell you where I found it though – click the link at the end of this section. There are a bunch more like this listed. Although I don’t know who this was, It has a strong, strong Latter-Day Saint theme. I wish I could say who experienced it, but I can’t. Google’s not helping there. I can tell you where I found it though – click the link at the end of this section. There are a bunch more like this listed. Although I don’t know who this was, It has a strong, strong Latter-Day Saint theme.





Pardon my loose transcription:





6) A Fascinating NDE





“ …I saw all manners or modes of transportation crossing the darkened sky, from walking to horses to carriages, stagecoaches, cars, boats, ships and all sorts of aircraft including a rocket. The rocket was the fastest of them all. Others went slower but no two of them were going at the same rate. I also noticed while they were going in the same direction, almost all of them were stopping or slowing to a crawl along the way. Some went hardly any distance at all. Others went farther. A few went a great distance, but only the rocket went all the way from one horizon to the other.





“ The angel explained to me that just like these modes of travel, so we that go to various churches that contain portions of God's truth travel the spiritual pathway leading to our ultimate heavenly home. Some of us go rapidly and some of us go slowly. Some go great distances and others not so far, but our speed and distance are determined by the amount of God's truth in the church we choose to join. The more of God's truth in the church we unite ourselves with, and the more we personally adhere to that truth the faster and farther we will go, and only Christ's perfected church, represented by the rocket that I had seen, could take us to the highest heavenly realm in the shortest amount of time. I was told that it was not the right church, but rather it was a perfect Church which is part of heaven and had been created there. It was designated as perfect because it was composed of the perfect organizational structure and taught as saving doctrines and ordinances the perfect or complete truth known by God the Father and his beloved Son.





“ In its perfected state Christ's Church have been brought to earth and given to mortals, however it did not take long for us to begin to change the church and caused it to lose its truth. We put up walls that divided the church as we sought wealth, honor, glory and worldly lusts as well as through fears we instilled in each other. In that condition the perfect church became so weakened that it fragmented in numerous less - perfect churches. I was told that all of these churches have portions of the truth, but that only the church as it was created in heaven has all of it. I was told that Christ's Church is on the earth again today, and if I desired to find it, I would find it… ” ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jeUZeFj33w&t=449s , 21:00)





Now this next one may be the coolest old Utah farmer story I’ve ever heard. Before you read it – read this:





Ezekiel 37:

7 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.

8 there was no breath in them. And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: butno breath in them.

9 God ; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.

10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet…





Now look at this:





7) Zeke Johnson Sees A Girl Resurrect While Plowing a Field





“As I was plowing around I noticed that my plow had turned out the skeleton of a small child, the skull and backbone, but most of the bones of course were decayed and gone. Part of the skeleton was there, so I stopped immediately as my plow had passes it a little. I turned and looked back against the bar of the plow between the needles. As I was looking at that little skeleton that I had plowed out and wondering, all of a sudden, to my surprise, I saw the bones begin to wiggle and they began to change position and to take different color and within a minute there lay a beautiful little skeleton. It was a perfect little skeleton.





“Then I saw the inner parts of the natural body coming in the entrails, etc. I saw the flesh coming on, and I saw the skin come on the body when the inner parts of the body were complete. A beautiful head of hair adorned the top of the head, and in about a half minute after the hair was on the head, it had a beautiful crystal decoration in the hair. It was combed beautifully and parted on one side. In about half a minute after the hair was on the head, the child raised up on her feet. She was lying a little on her left side with her back toward me. Because of this I wasn’t able to discern the sex of the child, but as she raised, a beautiful robe came down over her left shoulder and I saw it must be a girl.





“She looked at me and I looked at her, and for a quarter of a minute we just looked at each other smiling. Then in my ambition to get hold of her, I said, ‘Oh you beautiful child.’ I reached out as if I would embrace her and she disappeared. That was all I saw, and I just stood there and wondered and thought for a few minutes… Now, I couldn’t tell that story to anyone, because it was so mysterious to me and such. Why should I have such a miraculous experience?...





“…It was an answer to my prayers. I prayed incessantly for an answer as to why I was privileged to see that resurrection. Then I was told why. When the child was buried there, it was either in time of war with the different tribes, or it was wintertime when the ground was frozen, and they had no tools to dig deep graves. If it were during time of war they couldn’t possibly take time to dig a deep grave. They just planted the little body as they could under the circumstances. Then it was done, the sorrowing Mother knew that it was such a little shallow grave that in her sorrow she cried out to the little group present, ‘That little shallow grave, the first beast that comes along will smell her body, and will dig her up and scatter her to the four winds. Her bones will be scattered all over these flats.’





“There just happened to be a man present holding the Priesthood. (A Nephite or a Jaredite, I don’t know which, because they both had been in this country.) This man said, ‘Sister, calm your sorrows. Whenever that little body is disturbed or uncovered, the Lord will call her up and she will live.’ Since that time I have taken great comfort, great cheer, consolation, and satisfaction with praise in my heart and soul, until I haven’t the words to express it, that it was I that uncovered that little body.”







