Jedediah M. Grant — Lost in the Ohio Woods, Zion's Camp Shown to Him in Vision (1834)

In 1834, while Zion's Camp was traveling from Kirtland to Missouri, Jedediah M. Grant became lost in the Ohio woods, straying 10 or 11 miles from the camp. After praying and receiving an impression from the Spirit, he had a vision of the camp moving in order, seeing the people, wagons, and horses as if they were nearby. Following the direction indicated by the Spirit, he traveled 8 or 10 miles and eventually reunited with the camp, which appeared exactly as he had seen in the vision.

Fuller account of this event (in the witness’s own words):

In the year 1834, when Zion's camp was moving from Kirtland to Missouri, one day I left the camp and went out to hunt in the woods of Ohio, and strayed away from the camp some 10 or 11 miles. The camp kept moving on all the time, and I entirely lost the track, and having no compass, I knew not towards what point I should travel. I kept traveling on till the afterpart of the day; I then concluded I would pray, but I could not get any impression where the camp was. However, I soon after received an impression from the Spirit, the same Spirit we had in Kirtland, and the same Spirit we enjoy in this place; and immediately after receiving the impression, I looked before me, and there was the camp moving on in regular order. I could see it just as clear as I did in the morning; there were the people, the wagons and horses, all in their places as I left them in the forepart of the day, and I supposed they were not more than 80 rods off. But after turning away for a moment, I again looked in the same direction, but all was gone. Still the Spirit told me to travel on in the same direction I had seen the camp; I did so, and after traveling some 8 or 10 miles, came up with them, and when they first came in sight, they looked just as I saw them in the vision.