Thomas Durham — Vision of the Missionaries

While living as a weaver in Tockholes, Lancashire, England, Thomas Durham was spiritually searching for the true gospel. According to his son's biographical sketch, Durham experienced a dream or vision in which he saw the specific men who would bring him the message of the restored gospel. When missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints eventually arrived at his home, he recognized them instantly from his vision. This divine manifestation led to the conversion of both Thomas and his wife, Mary Morton, and their subsequent decision to emigrate to Zion.

Recording note: This account is preserved in Alfred M. Durham, 'Sketch of the Life of Thomas Durham,' Daughters of Utah Pioneers History Collection (1936), and summarized in Luella Adams Dalton, History of the Iron County Mission and Parowan, the Mother Town, 294–295. Neither source is available in a public online archive, so no verbatim first-person text of the dream is included here.