Elder Meibos's Miraculous Answer to Prayer for His Return to Holland

“I was in the laboratory of a large factory in Salt Lake City. With measuring glass in hand, the coppers of oil, and bottles on the table before me, I was performing the tasks of every day life. As I was thus engaged, the Bishop entered, and with an abruptness that startled me, said, 'How would you like to go back to Holland?' Go back to Holland? Why, it was only five short years since I came from there, and in those five years a big change had entered my life. I had a wife, a little son, and an aged mother who was dependent upon me. How could I leave them? 'There is still a work for you to do there,' the Bishop said, 'and if you go and perform it, the Lord will bless and prosper you, and the way will also be opened so that your family will be provided for while you are away.' I thought of the sacrifice, but I also thought of the promise. I went. I arrived in Holland, and one of the first things I did was to visit an old friend, a man whom I had taught on my previous mission. He was an old man, and as I entered his home, he looked at me with eyes that were filled with tears. 'I have been praying for you,' he said, 'praying for five long years, that the Lord would bless you and protect you, and that he would bring you back to us again. And my prayer is answered.'”

— John Meibos, The Young Woman's Journal, vol. 22 no. 3