HOOPER, UT – In what appears to be a Latter-day miracle, all of the volunteers for a ward service project actually showed up.  Of the twenty-six brethren in the Hogwash Heights 18th Ward who committed to help LaVell and Emma Rigdon unpack their moving van on May 20th, an astonishing twenty-six were confirmed by the Young Single Adults’ advisor as having been there.

“In all my years of Church service,” said advisor Joseph F. Mason, “I have never seen an event quite as miraculous as this.  When all these brethren answered the call of duty on Sunday when we asked for volunteers, I was skeptical that we would see anyone besides me and my counselors, since that’s what normally happens.”  Mason then went on to relate how many such projects in the past were impeded by the “powers of the adversary, which has caused many of the brethren to get sick on the morning of the move, or to suddenly have to go visit an ailing grandmother out on Willard Bay.”  Such was not the case this time.

Amazingly enough, the outcome of this service project was far from assured as of 9:15 AM, only 15 minutes before the opening prayer was set to be given by Brother Bob Huntsman.  In fact, the only people at the Rigdons’ house at this hour were Mason, Huntsman, and young Brother Oliver Monson, aged 21 who was only three weeks off his mission.  It was at this moment that the miracle began to unfold.

According to witnesses, the Rigdons’ beautiful daughter Eliza, 19, came out of the house to greet the helpers, described by those present as “perky”.  Upon witnessing this unexpected development, young Elder Monson magnified his calling by pulling a cell phone from his pocket.  Within 5 minutes, as if by magic, two of his friends, twin brothers Rusty and Bobby Smith, 22, arrived on the scene.

Brother Mason was so impressed that he asked Monson if he had “faith sufficient to repeat the miracle,” by summoning the remaining twenty-one brethren that were still absent.  Monson heeded the call of the Priesthood, and, using a pure heart and a camera phone, had soon inspired the remaining men to arrive.

With so many helping hands, the movers made quick work of the project.  Mason related that not only was the van emptied quickly, but that each of the young men gave the warmest of welcomes to the family, especially Eliza.  “They even offered to help unpack her boxes and set up her bedroom!”

While it is not known whether such a miraculous turnout has occurred elsewhere in the Church, President Delvin Q. Rottbager of the Hooper Central Stake confirmed that, to his knowledge, “nothing of this sort has ever happened before in our Stake.”