Divine Guidance and Provision for Elders David Shand and Ammon Green

“In the month of February of that year we were traveling south through the Chocktaw country. One day it rained from morning till night, and we were wet through ; we were also cold and hungry. All the afternoon we asked for shelter for the night at the scattered houses, but were refused at every place. The next settlement was twenty miles away, through dense woods. As we could not lie down on the wet ground, nor make a fire, we traveled on. We were told that there was not another house within a radius of twenty miles. Elder Green was traveling a little ahead of me. Suddenly I noticed a light through the trees to the right of us and called his attention to it. After we had made sure that it was a light, we groped our way through the darkness of the woods toward it. After a while we came to a small, board shack. A man was standing at the door. We told him that we were Latter-day Saint missionaries, and asked him if we could st;iy with him over night. 'Certainly you can stay,' he answered, 'but if you had been five minutes earlier you would not have found me here. I have just built this place. I am cutting ties for a railroad that is going to pass through this part of the country. I felt lonesome to-night, and started off a short time ago to spend the night at an Indian settlement some miles farther off the road. But when I had gone pretty well on the way, something whispered to me, saying, 'Go back, you are wanted at the house.' I reasoned with myself, however, that all was right at the cabin, that I had not left a fire, that I had nothing to lose, and started on again. But the same voice said to me again, 'Go back, you are wanted.' I could not resist the second time, so I came back. I had just got a light and was standing in the door wondering what was going to turn up when I heard you tramping through the woods.' — Millennial Star 69:39”