The 1980s

54 miracle accounts from this decade

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The Cokeville Miracle — Angels and Ancestors Protect 154 Schoolchildren in a Hostage Bombing (1986)

Angels Lift the Van: Emily Bowen Brought Back to Life by Priesthood Power(1989)

I Saw Jesus Christ and Was a Witness to His Ministry — Elder David B. Haight(1989)

Thomas S. Monson — Prophetic Promise to the Czech Saints(1985)

Elder M. Russell Ballard Commands the Rain for Drought-Stricken Ethiopia (1985)

Healed at Once: A Priesthood Blessing That Opened Masinloc, Zambales, to the Restored Gospel (1986)

The Manila Philippines Temple Preserved Through the 1989 Coup — Shelled on Every Side, Unmarked but for One Bullet Hole

An Angelic Priesthood Blessing(1980s)

Rick Hall — A Soldier's Covenant Prayer Answered Within a Week; Powerful Witness of the Book of Mormon (1981)

Olga Kovářová — Divine Guidance to the Underground Church(1982)

The First Presidency Prayed as the Fire Chief Toured the Boise Temple — and Granted Unlimited Occupancy(1984)

Spencer W. Kimball's 1984 Calling Order — God Foreknew Which Apostle Would Lead the Church Through a Pandemic (1984–2020)

The Freiberg Germany Temple — A Latter-day Miracle Behind the Iron Curtain (1985)

A Lesson I Will Never Forget by President Gordon B. Hinckley(1987)

Alphonse Amawwho Heeds the Prompting That Saves Him from a Falling Tree (Oda, Ghana, 1988)

A Couple from Ghana Traveled by Freight Vessel to the London Temple — and the President Opened It Just for Them(1980s)

Manuel Sanchez's Divinely Timed Meeting with His Missionaries Before Navy Boot Camp(1980s)

A Mormon Conversion: Three Years of Sending Letters(1980)

I Was the Man in the Tractor-Trailer(1984)

The Presence of His Dead Parents Draws Sione ‘Oleli Piutau Tupou Back to the Church (Tonga, 1984)

The Obedoza Family Sells Their House to Be Sealed — and the Lord Provides a Home(1985)

The Miraculous Growth of the Church in the Democratic Republic of the Congo(1986)

The Remarkable Conversion of Manoel(1988)

Shari Conover Rosenberg, Reed Benson (her first BYU Book of Mormon teacher)

"Find the Book of Mormon": Shari Conover Rosenberg's Conversion(1980s)

Emmanuel Dei Anin's Dream of Danger That Sent Him Searching for the True Church (Kumasi, Ghana, 1980s)

A 19-Year-Old Confronts Death(1987)

Elder Carlos H. Amado: The First Guatemalan General Authority and His Testimony of Overcoming Adversity(1989)

Sister Tracy Y. Browning’s Conversion Experience(1989)

Dominic Tshabalala

Growing Up Under Apartheid: Dominic Tshabalala Finds Hope and Faith (South Africa)(1980s)

Olga Kovářová Campora — Divine Guidance During StB Interrogation(1985)

Olga Kovářová Campora — The Miracle of the 100 Signatures(1989)

The Czech Saints — Protection of the Secret Summer Camp(1980)

Tony Pretorius — Coma, a Choice to Stay, and Missionaries at His Door Four Hours After Coming Home(1980)

Olga Kovářová Campora — Inspired Use of Yoga to Circumvent Communist Bans(1982)

Gordon B. Hinckley

The Tonga Temple Dedication Storm(1983)

Olga Kovářová — Protection During Secret Baptism(1983)

Olga Kovářová Campora — Protection of the Secret Forest Conferences(1983)

Olga Kovářová — The Velvet Revolution as Answered Prayer(1989)

The Window That Would Not Break: The Las Vegas Temple's Celestial-Room Glass and the Loma Prieta Earthquake (1989)

Elder Scott Lieber saves Shielly Oilouch in Palau(1983)

Bats in the Church: An Omen That Brought Stolen Building Supplies Back to the Mormons of Madolenihmw(1980s)

Kofi Kwequir-Aggrey's Dream of the Light Bulb: "They Lifted Me Up, and I Fixed the Bulb" (Ghana, 1980s)

Thomas Kwamena Appiah: A Father's Name Given to Missionaries in America, Found Again Three Years Later in Ghana (1980s)

Kweku Akuam's Freedom from Alcohol: "This Was Nothing That Would Tempt Me" (Ghana, 1980s)

Maureen Ursenbach Beecher: Latter-day Saint Historian of Eliza R. Snow (1935–2025)(1980)

Bigler, Erin D.: Witness of the Mind (1980s)

Richard Lloyd Anderson: The Foremost Scholar of the Book of Mormon Witnesses (1926–2018)(1981)

Terrel Howard Bell: A Latter-day Saint Secretary of Education (1921–1996)(1981)

Baptism in the River Beneath the Waterfall: A Great Spirit Rests on a Mountain Trail Baptismal Service (1982)

Valeen Tippetts Avery: LDS Historian and Co-Author of 'Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith' (1936–2006)(1984)

Milton V. Backman Jr.: LDS Historian and Author of 'The Heavens Resound' (1930–2020)(1985)

Elder M. Russell Ballard: Apostle and Great-Grandson of the Martyr Hyrum Smith (1928–2023)(1985)

Phyllis Barber: A Latter-day Saint Writer and Witness of the Divine in Nature and Soul(1985)

Juliana Anno Finds the Church at Joseph Smith's Birthplace in Vermont, Then Searches Two Years to Find It Again in Ghana (1980s)