458. 2 Great missionary stories. A woman saw the missionaries in a dream before she met them. Wayne's ancestor had the same experience.
First I will tell briefly the story of Wayne's ancestor, Phillip Kirk. He was living in Arnold, Nottingham, England, not far from the well-known Sherwood Forest which is in the famous story of Robinhood. His full history is posted in entry # 197, which was printed on July 24, 2014. Mary Ann was 17 years old when she married Philip Kirk, 20 years old. They had 10 children, four of whom died young. Early in the 1840’s, Mormon missionaries had been sent to England to tell the people there of a new religion in America. In 1849 some traveling Elders found the Philip Kirk family in Arnold, Nottingham, England. He was then a baker with a pastry shop. His conversion to the Latter Day Saint religion was the result of a dream. He dreamed that as he was standing by his gate, he saw two men coming down the road toward him. He then awoke. Several days later he saw the two men of his dream coming down the road toward him as he stood by the gate. They told him t