Wilford Woodruff's vision of the survival of the Church in 1838

“I obtained a testimony of them on the so-called Grand Prairie, while crossing it in November, 1838. It was there that I learned that the Prophet, some Apostles and Elders, to the number of about thirty or forty, had just been taken to prison. We were told we need never expect to see them alive again; that they would be shot or hung, or disposed of in some way, and that the Church would be broken up and destroyed. I was a young man, and had been but a short time in the Church. I was thousands of miles from home, and I had not the privilege of seeing the Prophet or the Apostles. I was in a lonely place, and the news was of a character to try the faith of any man. But the Spirit of the Lord was with me. It was there, in that lonely place, where the blessing and glory of God shone around me, and it was manifested to me that we would have them among us again; that the Church would not be destroyed—that it could not be broken up. I felt perfectly satisfied that the Lord would deliver them, and that the Church would stand. I had that testimony, and I never lost it from that day to this.”

— Wilford Woodruff, Millennial Star 52:21