Improbable Coincidences / Synchronicities

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Divine Guidance to Palmyra - Genie or Good Spirit Directing(1829)

Wallace Toronto — Secret-Police Arrest Led to the Ministry Audience He Had Been Denied (1965)

Oliver Cowdery - Called as a Teacher and Divinely Led to Joseph Smith and His Family(1829)

Samuel Smith's First Mission: Two Books of Mormon Placed with Preachers Who Were Secretly Siblings(1830)

William Clayton - Miraculous Deliverance When Delayed by Illness at Buffalo(1840)

Elder Franklin J. D. Jensen's discovery of the Gospel's spread via shipwrecked tracts(1910)

Junius F. Wells Builds Monuments to the Book of Mormon Witnesses — A Labor of Faith and Reconciliation(1911)

Called at Her Grandfather's Grave to the Same Tahiti Mission as Her Brother(2023)

Visa Denied Four Times, Then a Door Opens: Congolese Singer Reaches General Conference(2025)

John Kune's escape from robbers through truthfulness(1880s)

Manuel Sanchez's Divinely Timed Meeting with His Missionaries Before Navy Boot Camp(1980s)

Mysterious Object Appears on Prairie - Divine Warning(1825)

The Miraculous Unity and Worship at Jacksonville(1834)

David Cluff - Divine Leading to Kirtland and Meeting the Prophet Joseph Smith(1836)

Elder Heber C. Kimball and Missionary Party's Divine Manifestation of Truth(1837)

Benjamin Brown's Passage Delayed by Divine Providence for His Mission(1840)

Mother Moon's Providential Preservation of Wine for the Apostles(1840)

Dan Jones: The River Captain Whose Chance Encounter with Joseph Smith's Stranded Boat Changed the History of Wales(1843)

The Accidentally Shot Ox and the Timely Steamboat at the Poor Camp (1846)

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

Samuel Miles: A Battalion Soldier's Faithfulness in Service and Presence at the Gold Discovery (1846–1848)

Sidney Willes: The Soldier Whose Gold Discovery Became History (Company B, 1846–1848)

Oliver Huntington's Recognition by an Unknown Indian(1854)

Elder D. Spencer and Associates Guided to Success in Obtaining Supplies(1855)

Fanny Fry Meets the Sister She Feared Lost — Sarah Recognizes Her Riding in Rags Over Big Mountain (1859)

Curious manifestation of an eagle at the Salt Lake City Hall(1876)

William Wood's recovery from an ankle accident(1881)

Elder M. W. Pratt's Witness of the Cyclone-Preserved Bible(1883)

Mr. and Mrs. S.'s Miraculous Finding of the Gospel in New Zealand(1884)

A prisoner's miraculous preservation of sanity through melon seeds(1891)

Brother Jörgenson's Divine Overruling and Conversion of Carlson(1895)

Elder J. Lloyd Woodruff's Providential Night's Shelter in a Graveyard(1900)

President of the Newcastle Conference's Providential Discovery of Genealogical Records(1901)

Elder Francis M. Lyman's Miraculous Guidance and Provision in Syria(1902)

Amelia Chalmers's miraculous finding of the Gospel(1909)

From Expo '70 to the Seventy: A High School Student's Referral Card at the Osaka Mormon Pavilion and the Rise of Elder Kazuhiko Yamashita (1970)

Nauvoo Temple — Original Blueprints Miraculously Discovered in a Non-Member's Home After 150 Years(1999)

Laura Anderson and the Lost Muster Rolls: Finding the Mormon Battalion’s Forgotten Military Records in the National Archives (2015–2021)(2018)

The Playground That Brought Light: Seth, Alan Riser, and the Lord's Prepared Path from Alorkpem, Ghana, to the Mission Field(2010s)

Mr. Baxter's miraculous sign of the brother's greeting(1830s)

Restoration of a Lost Heifer in Answer to Prayer(1870s)

Holbrook C. MacArthur Helps a Stranger and Finds the Restored Gospel (Ghana, 1970s)

Ezra Hela Allen: Murdered at Tragedy Spring on the Anniversary of Joseph Smith's Martyrdom — June 27, 1848

Mr. John W. White's Defense of Mormon Missionaries(1887)

Dr. James E. Talmage and Robert Anderson's Miraculous Preparation for the Glasgow Lecture(1898)

Blind Girl's Singing at Blackburn Relief Society Social(1908)

Providential guidance of Wilford Woodruff and James Townsend to Mr. Teppley(1838)

Mrs. Brown's Miraculous Reunion with Virginia Olmstead after the Train Wreck(1907)

Gad Vojkůvka — Led to Turn on the Television and See His Mission President (1965)

Keiko Teshima Fuller Is Guided to an Unknown Cemetery in Japan — and Finds Her Ancestors(1990s)

Divine Guidance to Kirtland and the Temple(1835)

Miraculous Letters From Distant Family(1841)

Present at the Discovery of Gold at Sutter's Mill(1848)

John R. Winder's discovery of the Church(1848)

William Willis and Brother Meik Receive Spiritual Guidance via Casting Lots for Ordination(1852)

John T. Caine and Missionary Brethren Providentially Aided in Purchasing a Vessel(1855)

A. K. Thurber and Elder's providential escape from a maritime disaster(1865)

Captain Herald's Preservation through Providential Guidance in the White Sea(1867)

Providential appointment of Elders at Cross Roads(1868)

The St. George Temple Foundation — The Old Cannon Pile Driver(1871)

Henry Riser's Baptism of Eleven Souls in Auvernier(1873)

George L. Farrell's Providential Ride with a Vicar(1875)

Heber J. Grant's Sureties Signed by Captain William H. Hooper(1881)

Joseph A. West, Wm. H. Wright, and Willoughby recognized by spiritual discernment(1883)

Peter Carlson's miraculous reunion with his family in Utah(1884)

Discovery of a Rock-Entombed Frog(1887)

Cyrus Corey's Bullet Extraction(1892)

Elder Datwyler’s Providential Discovery of a Purse(1901)

Oyun Altangerel's Hunger Strike for Religious Freedom in Mongolia's State Library — the Same Building Where the First Latter-day Saint Missionaries Would Later Meet(1990)

Kelly Wigington reconnects with Sujin Kim through an unexpected encounter(2019)

Charles A. Callis — The 'Dirty Little Irish Kid' Reunion(1840s)

Francis Thompson McShane's Survival and Return(1890s)

Manifestation of the Hand of God in Nottingham Emigration(1881)

The Utah Missionary’s Miraculous Encounter with a Fellow Saint(1898)

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