Sister Missionaries Save Dozens from Carbon Monoxide

byDanielle B. Wagner | Jul. 26, 2016

Mormon Life

Two sister missionaries in Southfield, Michigan, Sister Adams and Sister Rambert, were woken early Sunday morning when their carbon monoxide alarm went off. Deadly gas began filling their apartment, coming from a faulty water heater, according to Fox 2 News.

As they called 911 and started to leave the building, the sisters quickly realized they were the only ones with a carbon monoxide detector in the Cambridge Square apartments.

So these missionaries did what they do best: they went door to door. But instead of sharing the gospel, they were saving lives.

"I'm grateful that we were protected and everyone was safe," Sister Rambert told Fox 2 News.

Firefighters arrived on the scene shortly after, rescuing 20 people who were starting to suffer from the effects of carbon monoxide poisoning. The carbon monoxide levels were dangerously high, at about 100 parts per million, but no one was killed by the deadly gas.

"A lot of people kept asking the firefighters, 'If they hadn't called, we would all be dead, right?'" Sister Adams told Fox 2 News. "So it's really a tender mercy from the Lord."

This is a way cool story -- a few months ago the church bought carbon monoxide alarms for every apartment that missionaries are living in in every mission. They spend ALOT of money on these and they were to be installed as soon as possible. Just imagine how many detectors that is -- for every apartment or living quarters in the world - every mission (well not all parts of the world need detectors). The senior couple in our mission who are in charge of housing and cars have been working fast and hard to get them all installed. This is an amazing story of the wisdom and insight of the importance of this. These sister missionaries had one of those detectors and was the only apartment in that complex that had a detector. It saved their lives and all those who lived there. It i a mission miracle for sure. It amazes me how the Lord works to keep the missionaries safe -- and this one of the ways.