William G. Nelson’s Miraculous Prophetic Healing in Nauvoo

“In the summer of 1836 the Prophet stopped over night with my father. We were then living in Missouri. This was the first time I had ever seen him. I remember well how he looked and how he talked. He was very kind to us children, and I felt a great love for him. Later, when we moved to Nauvoo, we lived near the Prophet. One day he rode up to the gate and called to my mother: 'Where is Brother Nelson today?' Mother told him he was on the Island cutting wood. 'I should like to have seen him. Is your family well?' Mother answered that one of the boys was sick with chills and fever. 'Tell Brother Nelson that the boy will get well, and you will not have any more sickness in your family as long as you live in Nauvoo,' the Prophet said. This prophecy was literally fulfilled. We were a large family, and we lived in Nauvoo until the exodus, and during all that time not one of us was sick.”

— William G. Nelson, The Young Woman's Journal, vol. 17, no. 12