Open Heart Miracles



It is a tender time when you leave your family. Two Sundays before we left for the MTC, we were in California, visiting Travis and Joshua and their families.  We talked to our Bishop that Sunday afternoon by phone and told him that we had just learned that my father was to have open-heart surgery the next Wednesday and that Elder Benedict could come speak in our Idaho Sacrament meeting...but I would be in Utah at the hospital most probably.  Bishop Dickson was kind and said maybe I could write my testimony down and someone could read it for me...and then he paused...a long pause and then he said,  "I feel as your Bishop that if you will come back to speak in our ward the Sunday you leave that your father will be blessed."  I said, "I will be there."  He then asked me to give my parents big hugs from him.  Bishop Dickson is a Doctor.  (He knows my father is 83 years old and needs open heart surgery.)   The very next Sunday...I partook of the Sacrament in my father's room in the ICU.  Daddy only took tylenol after his surgery, so he would be alert and he worked so hard at everything they wanted him to do.  The doctors were amazed at his spirit and attitude.  He was in the hospital for one week!  A Wonderful Miracle!  We left for our mission the next Sunday and he is doing better than the doctors thought possible.  Truly...'All of this and the Gospel too!'