Testimony of Emma Price

The following is the testimony of Emma Brown Price. Emma is the wife of Edmund Price. Edmund is the son of Thomas Price and Mary Parry, and brother to our Sarah Price (married to Thomas Reese Williams, Sr.). Thomas Price is the son of William Price and Sarah Meredith.

One great testimony I have had was at the time I was 16. We were living in England. The greatest desire of my life at that time was that of coming to Utah. I had prayed for two years that the way would be opened for us to come. We were very poor at this time; my father being sick and unable to work to support the family. At the time this testimony came to me I was lying in bed in the same room with my father and mother. I was praying at the time when a light came through the window and stopped at my bedside. A voice spoke out of the light saying "If you will continue to pray three times a day (at the same time giving three knocks on the chair by my bedside) the way will be opened and you will go to Utah in a year. The light left through the window. I went to the window expecting to see it, but it had gone. When morning came I told mother what I had seen and heard. The answer she gave me was that "Em, where will we ever get money to go to America, but if you have seen and heard, I am sure the way will be opened and we will go to Utah.

One day a letter came saying if this letter reaches you, write to Mr. Davies at Liverpool. Mother wrote back and in answer to letter, a gentleman then came to see us. He was mother's nephew about 40 years old. Mother had not seen him since childhood. He explained to us that we had an uncle in America who he thought would send for two of our family. He gave mother his address and left the house. We never saw or heard of him after that time. But mother wrote to my uncle and he sent the money back for two of us to come. (1871) My sister Ann and brother William then sailed for America, thus the way was opened in answer to prayer.

After arriving in New York, the two worked very hard, saving all the money they could in order that the rest of us might come. They would use old envelopes torn to write home and would sell little trinkets they had brought with them to buy stamps and in a short time they sent money for us to come. I and my sister Ann stayed in New York working and helping to send them to Utah. We were the last to come.

I can bear my testimony to the truthfulness of this gospel and will say the greatest joy in life comes through living one's religion and in service of our Heavenly Father.

--Emma Brown Price