Mosiah Hancock Prays on a Mountain and a Missing Steer Providentially Appears to Rescue His Starving Family

After returning from a long mission to the Moquis Indians in 1863, Mosiah Hancock came home to find his family without flour. He had been kind to his neighbors, but all refused to help. Desperate, he went to the top of a mountain and prayed:

'I went upon the top of a mountain, and there I asked God to open a way that I may never ask such a one again for an accommodation, and to help me get those things I needed to carry on my work.'

The answer came immediately upon his return:

'I came home and met Samuel Hamilton. He said, "Mosiah, there is a four year old steer in the bottoms with your brand on. How much will you take for it?" I stepped down in the bottoms, and sure enough, there was my steer that I had not seen since I had bought it and put my brand on it. Some good spirit had lead it there just in time to be of great benefit to me. I let him have 3/4 of the beefed steer for 800 lbs of flour.'

A steer Mosiah had not seen since the day he branded it providentially appeared in a nearby field the moment he descended from a mountain prayer, providing 800 pounds of flour for his family.