From Britney Rule’s book ’50 things that really matter to Latter-Day Saints’, under title ‘Miracles’:
Several years ago, Elder David B. Haight (or the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles) visited our stake in California to reorganize the stake. My husband had served as a counselor in the stake presidency for ten and a half years, and he was asked to become the new stake president. As we sat with Elder Haight after the call was issued, I wondered if he were aware of my condition. I had a stroke a year before and a CAT scan showed evidence of a brain tumor. I was tortured with the decision as to whether or not to have the delicate and dangerous surgery because there were conflicting opinions regarding my situation from highly respected clinicians.
As if Elder Haight had read my thoughts, he suddenly said to my husband, “I know your wife has a cloud in her future, but I’ll take care of that when I set your apart, President.”
Near the conclusion of my husband’s setting apart the following day, Elder Haight said, “And bless Sister Tueller that her surgeons will possess a skill beyond their natural means.” My heart leapt! My fears of becoming mentally incapacitated vanished. From that moment I had unquestioned confidence in the choice to have surgery.
Nine years later when we were called to preside over the Indonesia Jakarta Mission, Elder Haight asked me to bear my testimony at the mission president’s closing seminar. I recounted our association with him some years earlier and explained that this mission was payback time for the Lord’s goodness to us.
In reality, there is no such thing as a payback to the Lord. The gifts of his mercy, love, and kindness, and the miracles that the Lord blesses us with are immeasurable. I will forever be in his debt. ~Britney Rule, Leatherwood Press books, Deseret Book Distributors. (Salt Lake City, 2007), 88-89
