Junius F. Wells's Prophetic Dream of Missions and Family Deaths

“It was then that I had a singular dream, I think perhaps it should be called a prophetic dream; for in it there were shown to me some things which later on in life were particularly verified. I dreamt that two of my mother’s sons, younger than I, should die; and I dreamt that I should go upon a mission to England when I was eighteen years old. When the first of my little brothers died this dream, which I had told to my mother, was repeated to Aunt Eliza and she declared to my mother’s sister, that it was a prophetic dream and would come to pass. It was only one week from the time the first child died until the other passed away—both seized with malignant diptheria; and it was in November, 1872 that Aunt Eliza, who was then in London with President George A. Smith’s Palestine party, asked me, while there, if I remembered my dream. Of course I did, and sure enough I was on a mission to Great Britain.”

— Junius F. Wells, The Young Woman's Journal