Henry B. Eyring — Tsunami Deliverance in Thailand

President Henry B. Eyring recounted an experience shared with him by a Latter-day Saint who was visiting Thailand. The individual checked into a hotel on the oceanfront the day before the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami struck. Through the guidance of the Holy Ghost, the person and others were led to higher ground away from the coast, sparing them from the destruction that leveled the area where they had been staying.

Fuller account of this event (as retold in Henry B. Eyring, 'Raise the Bar', BYU-Idaho Devotional, January 25, 2005):

A few days ago, I heard two accounts of God leading His children to safety on the coast of Thailand when that monstrous tsunami wave struck. One was of people who accepted His apparently routine invitation to a Church meeting on a Sunday. The meeting place was on higher ground, away from the coast. The people who gathered with the Saints were spared from physical death, while the places on the coast where they would have been were destroyed. The other account I heard was related to me by a Latter-day Saint who was led to safety by the Holy Ghost. He checked into a hotel on the ocean front in Thailand the day before the wave struck. The meeting place was on higher ground, away from the coast. The people who gathered with the Saints were spared from physical death, while the places on the coast where they would have been were destroyed.