Faith and Miracles

While serving as timekeeper during construction of the Manti Temple, Mormon pioneer Joseph Taylor walked the temple grounds each day to record the hours of volunteered labor and check on the welfare of community members during their assigned shifts. On one occasion, as he prepared to follow his usual route, he felt impressed to begin on the opposite side of the grounds instead. After turning around, collecting his notepad and documents, and heading the other direction, he greeted workers and recorded their time until he noticed men quarrying stone beneath a ledge on the hillside. Feeling that he should call them out from the precarious outcropping, he summoned them to come to him, and after all had emerged, the ledge collapsed and sent dirt and debris into the air. By following these subtle impressions, Joseph Taylor helped spare the quarrying men from injury or death, and work on the temple continued.

Manti, Utah · United States