Miracles

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I heard an interesting story today in Church. I can’t remember the name of the Mormon missionary, but it doesn’t really matter. The story tells us about two elders of the Church in the first days of the Restoration who were tired and hungry.

One of them said to the other: “I am missing the homemade bread that my wife used to cook for our family”. A few minutes after he said that, he found on the street a napkin with something inside.

Curious he unfolded the napkin and for his surprise found a homemade bread still warm. The bread had the same smell of his wife’s bread. The two elders thanked the Lord and ate that good food.

He then decided to write a letter to his wife and tell her about this experience. A few weeks later he received a letter from his wife saying that the same day he found the bread, she had left outside the window to chill, inside a napkin, a recently baked homemade bread. To her surprise the bread had disappeared.

It seems in this case that the miracle simply included the “transportation” of the bread, not the making of it.

Similarly, the Lord gave us the miracle of the Internet technology, the “transportation”, but we need to make the bread, or in our case, to prepare and post good information about the Mormon Church and the Gospel on the Internet.

If we do this properly, we can have faith that some spiritually hungry brother or sister will find it when they need it, and they will rejoice and learn about the Gospel, and we will be the instruments of perhaps helping to save some lives.