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I was just nine when missionaries taught our family about the Gospel. I was always interested in religion and developed a desire to serve a mission even before I was a teenager.
In my late teens I served a ‘mini’ mission. It was an opportunity for me to go out with the full time missionaries for two weeks and to learn for myself the kind of experiences they endured. My companion was Elder Hansen. The ‘mini’ mission was great preparation and a few years later, when I turned nineteen, I accepted the call to serve as a missionary.
Early in 1980 I received the call to serve in the Nevada Las Vegas Mission. By March I was on a plane bound for the Mission Training Centre in Provo, via Sydney and San Francisco. However, an eight-hour delay in Sydney meant I missed all my connections and so found myself stranded in San Francisco airport. It was after midnight. I was faced with a dilemma; even if I did manage to fly on to Salt Lake it would be the small hours of the morning and I would have no way of getting to Provo.
My thoughts were interrupted by a woman in her forties. “Are you a missionary?” she asked. Even with no badge, the short hair, new suit, and white shirt must have given me away. After conceding that I was a missionary she recognised my accent and asked “Are you from Australia? My son served in Australia.” I remember thinking this lady has no idea that there are 20 million people in Australia and so finding any common connection would be slim. “He served in Adelaide,” she added. At the mention of my home town I exclaimed, “That’s where I’m from!” She stopped for a second than asked, “Are you Steve Coy?”
She explained her son was Jamie Hansen. It turned out my companion from my ‘mini’ mission, from a few years before, was waiting at Salt Lake airport to take his mother to Provo. It was a welcome surprise for him to have his old companion as a surprise passenger too.
It was the first of many miracles where I could see divine intervention providing assistance. |
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