Martha Hancock Receives a Dream Directing Her to Marry Mosiah — Confirmed Genuine Despite Opposition

Martha Myers was a young widow when Levi Ward Hancock began suggesting she should marry his son Mosiah. After three days of fasting and prayer, she received a striking vision or dream that she described as 'too real for a dream':

'After I had fasted and prayed for three days — then, I think it was the next night, but hardly know whether it was a dream or a vision (though it seemed too real for a dream) — I was shown in what seemed a very striking way, that Mosiah Hancock was the one for me. Next morning I told Grandpa Hancock my dream, and he said, "Yes, that's from the Lord; do not get discouraged."

'The main reason that I thought in the weeks following that my prompting had been from the Lord, was that it seemed as though the Devil was doing all he could to discourage me.'

She wrestled with doubts, was told it was of the devil by a sister, almost withdrew — but ultimately was 'finally convinced that my message had been Divine.' She later also dreamed that she would 'have a hard and trying life if I accepted his son, yet that it would be for my schooling' — a prophecy also fulfilled.

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

After I had fasted and prayed for three days—then, I think it was the next night, but hardly know whether it was a dream or a vision (though it seemed too real for a dream)—I was shown in what seemed a very striking way, that Mosiah Hancock was the one for me. Next morning I told Grandpa Hancock my dream, and he said, 'Yes, that's from the Lord; do not get discouraged.' The main reason that I thought in the weeks following that my prompting had been from the Lord, was that it seemed as though the Devil was doing all he could to discourage me. I was told by a sister that it was of the Devil, and I felt so bad that I almost made up my mind to withdraw. But I was finally convinced that my message had been Divine. I also dreamed that I would have a hard and trying life if I accepted his son, yet that it would be for my schooling. This has been fulfilled to the letter, but I have never regretted it.