“From my childhood, my parents taught me to pray, and encouraged me to petition the Lord whenever
I needed help. One day my mother had sent me to the pasture after the horses, so I could take them to Conference.
I rode Pet, our saddle horse, up to the pasture to get them, while I was opening the gate, she got away and went with
the other horses. I ran and ran, trying to catch them, but was unable to do so. I circled them, and tried to head them
off, and tried every way I could to corner them so I could catch Pet and drive them in. Everything I tried was in vain.
I thought if I could get around them I would try to drive them in on foot, but I knew we didn’t have any fences for me to keep them between
and they would only get away from me. It was getting late, and I knew if I didn’t get them in soon we would never make it to Conference. I
then thought of my parent’s advice about prayer, so I knelt down behind a chokecherry bush and prayed to my Heavenly Father that he would
help me catch Pet and get the horses to the house. When I got up the horses were about 300 yards away from me. I walked slowly towards
them and I had only gone about 100 feet the horses took off on a hard run. As I watched, there in the middle of them stood Pet: and she
never moved. I kept on walking towards her and she just stood there until I walked up and got a hold of her reins and got on her. When I was
on her it was no effort at all to drive the horses into the corral. We then harnessed the horses and went to Conference and we were only a few
minutes late. This testimony of prayer so impressed me that from that day to this I have never forgotten it.”
From the life history of Samuel E Rigby https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/19695025?p=6734368&returnLabel=Samuel%20Eckersley%20Rigby%20(KWZ4-TPQ)&returnUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.familysearch.org%2Ftree%2Fperson%2Fmemories%2FKWZ4-TPQ