Protection & Deliverance

Daniel Jones' Miraculous Guidance and Protection during a winter journey to San Pete

Published October 25, 2026 at 1:14 PM

1840s · 1849
Between Great Salt Lake City and Utah Valley

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Zion's Trumpet Research

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While traveling alone to rejoin his company in 1849, Daniel Jones became lost in a snowstorm, encountering impassable bogs and a river. He prayed for guidance, and his horses led him to a hill. He then prayed for the weather to clear, at which point the snow stopped and the clouds parted, allowing him to see and join a party of travelers who helped him navigate to his company.

In Their Own Words

“Now I called on my Father to guide me or my animals to the right path; who, as usual, praise be to his name, answered my plea; for the latter, when given their rein, took me to the bottom of a steep and rough hill; they quickly climbed to its top, and then down over it from rock to rock. At the bottom of the hill ran a small river which was difficult to cross, but after following its banks for a while I found a safe spot, and before long I found myself on the highland again, without ever a road, or a compass, or anything except the heavens above to go by. I shouted again higher than before, “O Father, cause a breeze from somewhere to disperse the clouds and the snow;” at the calling the breeze came, and the snow ceased, and I heard the neighing of a horse not far from me; as I pondered what it could be, whether a horse as lost as I was, whether it had a rider, or whether it was an angel from heaven bringing salvation: over and over the whinny, and it was answered back by my horses and myself as loudly as we could, and taking heart my horses pranced to meet it. A gust of wind came which blew the clouds away; then we saw three horsemen on their mounts before us! — Udgorn Seion (Zion's Trumpet), No. 13 (June 28, 1851) (English translation by Ronald D. Dennis)”

Sources & References

Ronald D. Dennis, trans. and ed., Zion's Trumpet: 1851 Welsh Mormon Periodical (Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University), No. 13 (June 28, 1851) issue. https://rsc.byu.edu/zions-trumpet-1851-welsh-mormon-periodical/no-13-june-28-1851 (account extracted verbatim from the published English translation; research confidence: high)

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