Rancho Sierra Vista

This past week I woke up early Thursday morning and told Jack we needed to drive to Flagstaff on Friday and visit with Sister Dille.  He asked why and I said I don’t know why, I just know that’s what we are suppose to do.  I told him maybe it’s because you are the zone leader over the seniors, just chew on it and let me know.  Before the day was over he had contacted the mission president and  was told to go to Flagstaff and see Sister Dille, and then bring Sister Smith back and also Sister Dille’s car.

Sister Dille came on her mission because her Bishop told her to do it.  He had been prompted to get her to go three times.  So he called her in and she told him her back was bad and he told her she was to go.  When she got to us we (meaning all the seniors) wondered how the Church could have ever sent her on a mission to the Indian reservation, with the bad roads, mud, and uneven paths we walk and drive on.  But she exercised faith and came.   That was just a few days before Christmas.

Each time we saw her over the next few months, she was worse.  She came with a cane, and now couldn’t get around without a walking wheel chair.  The pain she was in was worse and her feet were turning in and not holding her up.  Getting into and out of her trailer was almost impossible.  They prayed for people to come to them to teach.  She cooked dinner and people came to be taught.  Other functions of the body we all take for granite were slowly leaving. 

Two weeks ago at a special meeting President Beck was attending elsewhere in Arizona,  he met a back surgeon specialist who said to him if you have any missionaries that need help just call.

Back to the present, Sister Dille went to a Back Specialist in Showlow and they had done an MRI and some other tests and he told her she was in really bad shape and he couldn’t do anything for her.  She called President Beck and he said “I’ll call you right back.”  He made a phone call and called her right back with a phone number of the number one specialist on back surgery in the whole nation.  He just happened to be in Flagstaff.  She called the phone number it was the doctor’s  cell phone and he answered.  He told her to come right in.  She and Sister Smith drove to Flagstaff  a three hour drive and he checked her out and admitted her to the hospital and told her that he had just had two cancellations for surgery and he would operate.  [This should remind most of us of the surgery that the Prophet Joseph Smith had by being in the right place at the right time for his leg surgery.]  The surgery went extremely well, the bad disk in her back was cutting into the spinal cord causing much of her problems.  He told her he would fix only the immediate problem, which he did.  She will be in rehab for three to six months.  She wants to finish her mission.

I drove Sister Smith back to Ganada to collect her things and took her to live with the Senior Sisters in Chinle.  Saturday I picked Sister Smith back up to go back to Ganada to pack up Sister Dille’s things and move Sister Smith with her things back to Chinle.   It was an interesting day, packing and getting ready all of Sister Dille’s things for her son to come pick up.  He will  pack her car and take her things to be stored near her sister in Tucson, where she will go to get well.

I was amazed that the Lord would prompt me, and then in turn I prompted Jack, he communicated with mission president and everything came together for these two sisters.  A miracle.