President George Q. Cannon's miraculous financial provision on the Sandwich Islands

“On one occasion, on the Sandwich Islands, I went over from the town where I was living to Waiehu, where Brother Francis A. Hammond (who now presides over the San Juan stake) and his wife were living, and I stayed with them over night. We were destitute of garments, and we did not know what to do about it. Money then in that country was exceedingly valuable. Why, they would have litigation over the price of a chicken, and it seemed impossible to obtain money to supply our wants. We knelt down in the morning and asked the Lord to open the way. Brother Hammond and I started to go to a branch about twenty miles distant. On our way through the hills we met a man who had been up to the place where I lived to get a Presbyterian preacher to come down and perform a marriage ceremony; but the minister was gone, and he asked me if I would go with him and marry the couple. We went with him. It was a Canadian half-breed that desired to be married to one of the native women, and after the ceremony was performed, and we gave them some instruction, he gave us five dollars. That five dollars was as large an amount as five hundred dollars would be under some circumstances. If it had dropped out of the heavens it could not have been more unexpected than it was. But it answered the purpose, and the Lord put it in the way.”

— George Q. Cannon, as recorded in The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star