The Little Miracles

I had made my 2 cute sister-in-law’s vow to buy red shoes before the end of the year 2011, this was December 2010. A silly goal, but nonetheless important for any young single lady.

I just so happened to take one of my s-i-l to the DI...and would you believe it? Red heels, her exact size...$3.

The next week I just happened to be browsing DSW and found some really awesome heels that looked just like the ones I pictured for my other s-i-l. So I had her check them out online. They were $40, but totally worth it—right?

She had to work the next day, so she gave me two twenties and I ran to DSW to buy them for her. When I got to the register...they said they were 40% off, plus with some other random discount, and I had a $5 gift card...so they were only $14.

They both wore their new heels to a fancy Christmas party that same month! It’s the little miracles in life isn’t it?

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Natalie S.
Farmington, Utah

Other Angels

My mom died a week before I turned 17, my junior year of high school. Although it was a difficult time, and to this day is something I think regularly of, the Lord blessed me.

A dear friend and member of the bishopric, Brother Brady, gave me a blessing. In it, I was promised that I would not miss out on the blessings that having a mom around bring...that there would be others that would fill the needs of my mother{not replace}.

Well, a year passed and I was engaged! I was thrilled, but I thought again of my talented mother. She would have been able to sew bridesmaids dresses, make the wedding cake and help me plan a glorious wedding...and I am cheap--frugal, so I didn’t want to pay exurbanite amounts for this either!

Well, my future mother-in-law was a seamstress, and sewed 6 beautiful bridesmaids dresses.

My cousin saw me at a family get-together and asked if there was anything she could do to help. I jokingly said, “can you make my cake?” She smiled and said “yes—I would love to, I am making Becky’s {my other cousin} too”.

My wedding was beautiful...and the weather was PERFECT {that’s where my mom really helped out}!

There have been innumerable times in my adult life that I have missed my mom being “here”...but equally the amount of times that I have been blessed and touched by other angels.

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Natalie S.
Farmington, Utah

A Small Price Tag

I grew up very poor. So after graduation I completely set off on my own and was financially independent in every way. Three years later when my handsome husband returned from his mission I knew it was only a matter of time before we got engaged (although he hadn't figured it out yet).

Knowing that I would be paying for my wedding by myself I was always on the lookout. One day I was window shopping downtown and saw a "bridal gown clearance" sale sign. So, like any girl - I had to look!

Not expecting to find or buy anything that day I perused the racks. Stuffed in between a wall of other dresses was my 99 dollar gown. My style. My size. Huge puffy skirt. Loved it! Especially for that price tag. And since it was the only one left I couldn't leave it.

So I gratefully bought it - knowing that the Lord had blessed me that day. A huge weight had been lifted off of my shoulders for a small price tag. A miracle for a poor working college girl with a wedding on the horizon.

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Barbara S.
Kaysville, Utah

Flabbergasted

My husband and I had just moved into a new apartment that had washer/dryer hookups on a Saturday! Yay! And we were expecting our first child in a couple months. We had been working regularly, built a small savings, and had the money to buy a washer and dryer!

On Sunday, we went to church and saw a family that was in our ward previously, that had moved a month before us. The first thing that Larry asked us when greeting us was “do you by chance need a washer and dryer? The house we moved into came with a set, but we already have some”.

I was flabbergasted! Yes--we needed them! But we could have paid for them! This is the benefit of paying tithing.

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Natalie S.
Farmington, Utah

Something Small

The Lord has helped us in so many ways. Every day there is some tender mercy I have witnessed. One that recently happened in our family is a small one but that brought comfort to our sweet little boy.

We put him to bed and did our regular routine and he fell asleep only to wake up an hour later just really crying. I went in and comforted him and he fell asleep again and then woke up a little while later, this happened several times. I was so worried because this is not like him.

We discovered his back molers growing in, we gave him some numbing medicine and Tylenol and nothing would work he was getting more restless and was acting like he was in terrible pain. He couldn't fall asleep and was just screaming.

My husband then gave him a blessing using the priesthood and right after the blessing he fell asleep soundly in my arms and slept the rest of the night. It was something small to help us out with a teething issue but really it strengthened our testimonies that He does love us and He wants to show us that love.
How grateful I am for His love.

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Shauna W.
Smithfield, Utah

Two Dollar Halloween

When I was young my mom was a single mom trying to make ends meet for her two little girls. Halloween rolled around and my mom had to come up with some creative ideas on how to make our Halloween costumes for our dress up day at school and trick-or-treating. She had very, very little money - about $2 and some change she could use to buy fabric to make our costumes.

She stepped into the fabric store where she walked up to two sales ladies in the entry way and asked "what fabric can I buy with this amount of money? I'm wanting to make costumes for my two girls".

The kind sales ladies having compassion on my sweet mom showed her some fabric that would work well for princess costumes, accepted her money, and gave her probably three times more fabric than they should have.

My mom made my sister and I beautiful costumes that year! I was Sleeping Beauty and my sister Michele was Minnie Mouse. We love those costumes the most to this day. :) I even wore mine in my second grade picture. hahaha. A Forever Memory.

Heavenly Father knows what's important to us and truly blesses us with our needs as well as our wants. He loves us. And those small things that are important to us are important to Him.

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Brooke W.
Kaysville, UT

A Thrift Gift

A few summers ago, my son was in desperate need of sandals.

We had just shut down our business and I just couldn’t justify spending money on sandals that would only last him a few short months.

I prayed and then went to the DI (a local thrift store).

As I walked to the shoe aisle, I noticed there were only 3 pairs of boys’ sandals all in a row together. I thought to myself {what are the chances that one of those is a size 12?} Sure enough!

The Lord had answered my prayer with a $2 price tag! They were Columbia sandals and they looked great all summer!

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Natalie S.
Farmington, Utah