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Robert Price and Elder Walter E. Grant's manifestation of the Spirit regarding an investigating couple

Published October 13, 2026 at 5:38 PM

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While holding a street meeting in Liverpool, Robert Price and Elder Walter E. Grant were prompted by the Holy Spirit that two listeners desired to know the truth and would join the Church. Price approached them and invited them to a meeting. Later, the woman had a dream of two men bringing a book written in golden letters, which she later identified as the Book of Mormon when the missionaries brought it to her. The couple was subsequently baptized on New Year's Eve.

In Their Own Words

“Just before closing our service I was told by the Holy Spirit that among the listeners were a man and woman who desired to know the truth and who would join the Church if they understood the Gospel. I felt impressed to go up and speak to them, which I did as soon as the meeting was over. I told them briefly our message and invited them to come to an indoor meeting to be held the following week. I told Elder Grant what had been manifested to me by the Spirit of the Lord and was not a little surprised when he told me that he had received a similar impression in a similar way. We both felt that the Lord had a work for us to do with these people. We visited them at their home, and found them to be very earnest seekers after truth. They had been praying to the Lord to show them the right way. In answer to prayer this good woman was shown in a dream two men coming to her with a book, written in golden letters. She was told that it was a true and correct record and that if she and her husband would obey the Gospel they would receive many blessings they knew not of. She told her husband of the dream, and they both wondered what it could mean. When we introduced the book the lady exclaimed, 'That is the very book I dreamed about.' They are now rejoicing in the truth, and were baptized on New Year's Eve.”

— Robert Price, in The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 69, No. 6

Sources & References

The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star (Manchester, later Liverpool, England, May 1840–1970), Vol. 69, No. 06 (1907). https://archive.org/details/millennialstar6906eng (account extracted verbatim from the issue's Internet Archive OCR text; research confidence: high) Full first-person account: The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 69, No. 6 (February 7, 1907), p. 94 https://archive.org/details/millennialstar6906eng

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