Crops and Harvest

Providential care over fields, harvests, and food. Every account below is a long-form, documented narrative from the archive.

53 accounts · drawn only from substantive narratives

Brigham Young's Miraculous Preservation and Location of Salt Lake City(1847)

Elder Edmund Durfee's Martyrdom at Camp Creek(1845)

President Brigham Young's inspiration in locating Salt Lake Valley(1847)

George Albert Smith's Spiritual Battle with Two Spirits(1832)

Joseph Smith's deliverance from mob violence and deprivation in Missouri(1833)

Orson Hyde — Fed by an Angel, Prophecy of Rain, and Dedication of Jerusalem(1841)

The Word of Wisdom — A Revelation of Health Principles Decades Ahead of Modern Medical Science (February 27, 1833)

Miraculous Storm at Fishing River (Zion's Camp, June 19, 1834)

Joseph Knight Sr. Provisions the Translation Work at Harmony (1829)

Zerah Pulsipher — Vision of an Angel(1840s)

The Last Man Standing at Pony Creek: Edson Whipple, Delivered from Death to the Vanguard Company (1846–1847)

Leave All and Follow Me: Matthew Ivory's Choice Between Family and Faith (1847)

Twice Left Behind, Never Turned Back: Charles D. Barnum of the First Company (1836–1850)(1847)

The Skeptic Who Stood on the Bench: Lewis Barney's Answer to the Mob (1840)

Only Member of His Family, Father of Twelve: Francis Boggs and a Life of Answered Calls (1841–1889)(1847)

Green Flake: The Enslaved Pioneer Who Drove the First Wagon into the Salt Lake Valley (July 1847)

"Thus My Whole Family Died, Martyrs to Christ": Edson Whipple's Sacrifice at Pony Creek (1846)

"This Present Calamity Will Pass Off": Jedediah M. Grant's Promise to Henson Walker Fulfilled by the Seagulls (1848)

Hark Lay and Oscar Crosby: The Enslaved Black Pioneers Who Scouted and Built the First Road into the Salt Lake Valley (July 22, 1847)

Elder M. Russell Ballard Commands the Rain for Drought-Stricken Ethiopia (1985)

The Teton Dam Collapse — 80 Billion Gallons Devastate Five Idaho Towns, Yet Only Six Lives Are Lost (1976)

David Whitmer's Fields Mysteriously Plowed Overnight — Enabling the Move That Finished the Book of Mormon (1829)

Translating the Book of Mormon(1820s)

Miraculous Intervention of Seagulls in Salt Lake Valley(1848)

Gulls' Deliverance of the Mormon Pioneers from Crickets(1848)

Fulfillment of President Brigham Young's prophecy regarding the Kanab flood(1870s)

Orson Hyde's prophecy and the miraculous shower of rain in Kanesville(1850)

Healing of the saints through the intervention of gulls during a cricket plague(1848)

Brigham Young's Promise of Rain in Sanpete County(1865)

Elder Heber C. Kimball's dream of the rats and mice in Cincinnati(1843)

James Wiseman and Brethren Protected During Indian Hostilities at the Fort(1855)

William Walker witnesses the fulfillment of prophecy in South Africa(1854)

Jabez Woodard's Vision of the Bursting Veil over Italy(1851)

A Rowdy Boy Sees a Halo Around President Woodruff's Head and Begins a Reformation (1893)

Land in British Honduras(1973)

Opapo Fonoimoana — The Manu'a Hurricane After Dusting His Feet(1900s)

The First Organ in Escalante — Divine Preservation and Spiritual Solace(1883)

Seagulls Hover Over the Temple During the Dedication Storm (1893)

Heber C. Kimball's Prophecy of the Dedication-Day Windstorm(1893)

The Conversion of Albert Brown(1833)

Green Flake: The Enslaved Pioneer Who Drove the First Wagon into the Salt Lake Valley (July 1847)

The Miracle of the Gulls: Seagulls Devour the Crickets and Save the Pioneer Harvest (1848)

The Miracle of the Gulls: Sea Birds Devour Cricket Plague and Save the Pioneer Harvest (June 1848)

Henry Bigler’s Journal Settles the Gold Discovery Date — And Six Mormon Battalion Veterans Were There (January 24, 1848)

Zerah Pulsipher and Elijah Cheney baptize Wilford and Azmon Woodruff (Richland, New York, December 1833)

Miracle of the Gulls — Seagulls Devour the Cricket Plague, Saving the 1848 Pioneer Harvest

Mormon Battalion Members Discover Gold at Sutter's Mill — Fulfilling Joseph Smith's Prophecy That the Saints Would Be Driven to the Mountains and Become a Mighty People(1848)

Orson Hyde Prophesies Rain During Drought and It Comes Before the Meeting Ends(1850s)

An Angel Appears to a Starving Orson Hyde and Feeds Him Celestial Fruit(1834)

Two Young Mormon Missionaries Survive Extreme Floods, Threats, and Near-Starvation on a 1,400-Mile Mission Journey(1843)

Lorenzo Hatch Finds God's Preservation Through 15 Months of Missionary Hardship — Turned Out of Doors Multiple Times(1844)

Seagulls Devour Crickets and Save the Saints from Famine in the Salt Lake Valley(1848)

Lorenzo Snow's Vision on Tithing(1899)