Children,
Lucy Mack Smith is the mother of the Prophet Joseph Smith. She was a woman of great faith and courage. One time she was responsible to lead 80 members by riverboat to join with the larger body of saints. It was cold, and tensions were high when they were told that the ice was blocking the way forward. In her own words in "History of Joseph Smith" she records:
‘Now brethren and sisters, if you will all of you raise your desires to heaven, that the ice may be broken up, and we be set at liberty, as sure as the Lord lives, it will be done.’ At that instant a noise was heard, like bursting thunder. The captain cried, ‘Every man to his post.’ The ice parted, leaving barely a passage for the boat, and so narrow that as the boat passed through the buckets of the waterwheel were torn off with a crash, which, joined to the word of command from the captain, the hoarse answering of the sailors, the noise of the ice, and the cries and confusion of the spectators, presented a scene truly terrible. We had barely passed through the avenue when the ice closed together again, and the Colesville brethren were left in Buffalo, unable to follow us.”
I made this quilt square to remind you of the water wheels on the back of the boat and of God's power to help you when you come up against walls of ice in your own lives. Lucy Mack Smith knew God would help them. I want you to know that God will help you too.
"Our soul waiteth for the Lord; He is our help and our shield."
-Psalms 33:20
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