Israel Call — Visionary Dream of Anson Call

During a period of intense personal trial and economic hardship in the Mexican colonies, Israel Call sought divine comfort regarding his decision to remain in Mexico. He recorded a remarkable dream in which his deceased father, Anson Call, appeared to him. In the vision, his father spoke words of encouragement, assuring Israel that his sacrifices were known to God and that his family would be preserved through the coming years of political upheaval. Israel reported that he awoke with a profound sense of peace and renewed strength, which sustained him through the subsequent years of the Mexican Revolution and the eventual temporary displacement of the Saints.

Recording note: This account comes from the personal journals of Israel Call (a son of pioneer colonizer Anson Call) and family histories associated with the Latter-day Saint colonies in Mexico, which are held in private and archival collections and are not available in a public online source. Israel Call was among the colonists who endured the economic hardship and eventual exodus from the Mexican colonies. Because no verbatim text is publicly available, no first-person excerpt is included here (research confidence: low — account known only through secondary references).