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The Promises Have Been Fulfilled
The William and Mary Goble family emigrated from England in 1856. Upon their arrival in Iowa City, Iowa, they were assigned to the Hunt Wagon Company. They, with the Willie and Martin Handcart Companies, were caught in Wyoming winter snows in October 1856. Their sufferings were indescribable. They trudged on burying family members. Mary said:
“We arrived in Salt Lake City nine o’clock at night the 11th of December 1856. Three out of four [family members] that were living were frozen. My mother was dead in the wagon. Bishop Hardy had us taken to a home in his ward and the brethren and the sisters brought us plenty of food. We had to be careful and not eat too much as it might kill us, we were so hungry. Early next morning Bro. Brigham Young and a doctor came. The doctor’s name was Williams. When Bro. Young came in, he shook hands with us all. When he saw our condition, our feet frozen, and our mother dead, tears rolled down his cheeks. The doctor amputated my toes using a saw and a butcher knife. Brigham Young promised me I would not have to have any more of my feet cut off. The sisters were dressing mother for the last time. Oh, how did we stand it? That afternoon she was buried.”
Can you imagine the pain and suffering that Mary endured because of her feet? She continued the story of her feet, saying:
“Instead of my feet getting better, they got worse until the following July, I went to Dr. Wiseman’s to live with them to pay for him to doctor my feet. But it was not use he said he could do no more for me unless I could consent to have them cut off at the ankle. I told him what Brigham Young had promised me. He said all right sit there and rot and I will do nothing more until you come to your senses.
“One day I sat there crying. My feet were hurting me so; when a little old woman knocked at the door. She said she had felt some one needed her there for a number of days. When she saw me crying, she came and asked what was the matter? I showed her my feet and told her the promise Bro. Young had given me. She said, ‘Yes, and with the help of the Lord, we will save them yet.’
“She made a poultice and put on my feet and every day after the doctor had gone she would come and change the poultice. At the end of three months my feet were well. One day Doctor Wiseman said, ‘Well, Mary, I must say you have grit. I suppose your feet have rotted to the knees by this time.’ I said, ‘Oh, no, my feet are well.’ He said, ‘I know better, it could never be.’
“So, I took off my stockings and showed him my feet. He said that it was a miracle and wanted me to tell him what I had been doing. I told him to never mind that they were now healed. I have never had to have any more taken from them. The promise of Brigham Young has been fulfilled.”
I believe in the promises of living prophets. If we focus on those promises, and obey the conditions required, we may call upon the Almighty for them to be fulfilled. That is my faith!
For example, at the close of the October 2020 Conference, President Nelson said:
“I bless you to be filled with the peace of the Lord Jesus Christ….I bless you with an increased desire and ability to obey the laws of God. I promise that as you do, you will be showered with blessings, including greater courage, increased personal revelation, sweeter harmony in your homes, and joy even amid uncertainty.”
Source:
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2020/10/58nelson?lang=eng
