Bathsheba Smith Comforted by Voice Assuring Her She Would Travel to Zion (autumn 1837)

“In the autumn of 1837, my sister Nancy and her family were preparing to move to Far West, Missouri, to gather with the Saints. I was very anxious to go with them, but my parents thought I was too young to undertake such a journey, and my father said I could not go. This caused me to retire to bed one night feeling very sorrowful. While pondering upon what had been said to me about not going, a voice as it were said to me, 'Weep not, you will go this fall.' I was satisfied and comforted. The next morning I felt so contented and happy; an observing which my sister Sarah said, 'You have got over feeling badly about not going to Zion this fall have you?' I quietly, but firmly replied, 'I am going. You will see.' My brother, Jacob G. Bigler, who had been to Missouri, returned home and told father that he had bought a farm in Far West and that he must sell his farm in Virginia and move the family there. Father did so, and we all started for Missouri that fall, thus fulfilling the promise I had received.”

— Bathsheba W. Bigler Smith, Autobiography