Granny's Miracle

The Steward family characteristics of love and devotion and a deep religious faith made them receptive to the gospel.
When the Mormon missionaries came to the Stewart house, Elizabeth, the third child, immediately felt the truthfulness of their message.
She began to study and search for more assurance of the things she felt within.
Her feelings and study stirred an immediate response in her old granny, who was the matriarch of the Stewart household. Elizabeth spent many hours telling her granny about the new prophet of God, Joseph Smith, who had brought back to earth the simple, direct message that Christ was alive and had appeared to man.
Elizabeth felt a testimony burning within and asked permission to be baptized.
Because of the unpopularity of the Mormons, her parents objected.
Elizabeth's granny came to her rescue.
"Let the child alone," she said. "I have read all her books, and I do believe the child is right."

As Elizabeth left her home to go to her baptism, her granny was at her side.
The two walked to the river, where the elders had broken a hole in the ice that wintry March day.
When the elders came toward Elizabeth to baptize her, her granny stepped up and said, "Watch your manners, child; never step in front of your elders."

The elders baptized Granny in her street clothes; she even had on her little white cap.
She had brought no extra clothes, so she walked home in her wet, frozen clothes.
She did not take cold even though she did not change her clothes until the other family members had gone to bed.
She said nothing about her baptism to the family but went about her usual tasks as if nothing had happened.
After the others had gone to bed, she hung her clothing around the fireplace.
In the morning when Archibald got up, he saw the clothes drying.
He began to joke with the others about Granny having been dipped into the river along with Elizabeth.
Granny listened to their fun and then said;
"Archibald, if you don't want people to hear, stop shouting so loudly.
You can't talk about your Granny now, for she can hear better than any of you."

Granny had been virtually deaf for twenty years, but a miracle had restored her hearing at the time she was baptized.
Fro that day until her death, she could hear distinctly.
Archibald said laughingly that she heard too much.

Ted E. Brewerton -Light -October 1991 General Conference

Until you next see these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!

-Sarnic Dirchi