Miraculous provision of funds for missionary's travel

“Another mission story a mother told me illustrates the ‘Mormon’ woman’s belief in prayer. When the Elders came around and asked me if I could let my son go to Holland on his mission,’ said this woman, ‘I told them, yes. Yet I hadn’t at the time even enough money to pay his passage. My husband had failed in business shortly before he died. When the Elders asked me how soon I could send my boy, I said, ‘In two weeks.’ The time was short, but I knew if it was right for my boy to go, God would help me provide the means. I prayed over it and then I did not trouble. I knew there would be a way. Well, in a few days after the Elder's visit to me I met my father up town. He asked me if I would sell my share of some land that my sisters and I owned together. Of course I said, yes, at once: The $200 I got from this sale paid my son's passage over and kept him a good while.’”

— Unnamed mother, as reported in The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star