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Show 139 Mama was so surprised at the early morning visit of the bishop that it didn't occur to ask why the hour. At Fast and Testimony meeting the following Fast Day, the bishop was the first to bear his testimony. He recounted that Papa had asked him to administer to Grant and the answer he had given him. Nevertheless, the night he had come to our place he had gone to bed very tired. It was winter, the snow was on the ground, and it was very cold. He was a hard-working man, and bed was a comfortable place to be. "About one o'clock I was awakened by a voice which said: 'Get up and go and administer to Grant.' The first time I talked myself out of it as imagination. The voice was still and small, but it pierced my soul. I went back to sleep and it came again: 'Get up and go and administer to Grant.T I was fully awake, but if I got up at that hour a fire would have to be made in the stove, water heated to put in the radiator of the Reo and it would be hard to start the car in the cold. I promised myself that as soon as it was light I would get up and comply. I went to sleep again. About three o'clock the voice came again, this time more insistent: 'Get up and go and administer to Grant.' I woke my wife and told her about it. She said: '"You'd better go now, Billy. I'll help get the water hot and start the car. " The bishop finished his testimony with tears rolling down his cheeks. "And that is how I came to go in the early hours of the morning to administer to Grant. " To Mama he said later: "I had such a presentiment to go and administer to the Billingsly boy. I didn't go and he died. " |
