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Replica of “Miracle” Picture
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Porto, Portugal—When Elder Jacob Moseley returned from
proselyting in his area of Porto, Portugal, to find that everything in his
apartment had been destroyed in a fire, he thought that all was lost. But once
the firemen gave him clearance to look over the ruins, much to his surprise,
Elder Moseley found the “perfectly preserved” photograph of his ex-girlfriend
Katherine Thompson. “When I looked down and found Kaytie’s picture among the
ash,” said Moseley, “I just knew that, like the picture, God was preserving her
for me.”
Elder Moseley found great relief in the “miraculously”
preserved picture, especially since his clothing, scriptures, food, bedding, and
letters from home where all destroyed in the blaze. Elder Moseley’s companion,
Elder Gonçalves from Babajoz, Portugal, was not as lucky as his companion,
losing everything in the fire. Said Elder Gonçalves, “the copy of the Book of
Mormon that the first missionaries gave my grandparents more than 40 years ago when
they joined the church was completely lost, but at least the Lord preserved
Elder Moseley’s Ogden high school prom picture of him and Kaytie.” Elder Gonçalves
added that “the Lord works in mysterious ways.”
Elder Moseley, wearing the only mission clothes he has left
until he can get money for new shirts and suits, emailed his family this week
about seeing the Lord’s hand in “keeping the picture, the hope, and the dream
alive” that he and Katherine will “one day, like this picture, be kept from
harm by their eternal marriage covenant bond.”
Elder Moseley’s parents have yet to respond to his faith-promoting
experience about Katherine, due in large part to the fact that just a few days ago they attended
her wedding reception in their local Ogden ward building’s cultural hall.
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