Do You Have a Sick Baby?

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Palmyra, Utah, sometime in the mid-nineteenth century. Sarah Ann Cordingley Robertson “was very sad, downhearted, and worried.” Her baby was sick “and there being no doctors, she had to rely upon what little knowledge she had, but everything she did seem[ed] to do no good and it looked as if the baby would die” She had already lost two babies. She did not want to lose a third. So, being true to the faith, “she knelt by her bed and asked God for assistance.”

A short time later there came a knock at the door “and a strange woman entered. She stood with her back to the door and asked…if she had a sick baby.” Sarah answered, “Yes, and I have done all that I know how to do for the baby.”

The stranger then proceeded to give Sarah instructions on “what to do for the baby.” Sarah followed the woman’s instructions carefully and soon the condition of the child improved. Sarah’s granddaughters related the following as their grandmother told them,

Grandmother looked up to thank the woman and tell her how thankful she was for her help, but the woman was not there. Grandmother ran to the door and opened it. She looked in every direction…. She could see a long way as it was such open country, but there was no one, not a living soul. She knew the woman was a stranger as she knew everyone in the small town of several families. The baby improved from that time until it was completely well.

And thus is the ministering of angels among us.

Source: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/memories/KWNT-M8L