Episode Two: Touched by Angels: Misty's Miraculous Battles and Triumphs
In this episode of ‘Latter-day Miracles’, hosts Haley Hatch Freeman and Misty Smith delve into Misty's personal story of faith and survival. Misty shares her harrowing experiences including a life-threatening car accident and a severe case of COVID-19 that revealed her diabetes. Through incredible miracles, angelic interventions, and the support of her family and community, Misty navigates her path to recovery. Her story is a testament to the power of divine love, prayer, and the resilience of the human spirit. Misty's lessons emphasize the importance of recognizing one's worth, understanding the power of choice, and the profound impact of love and support in overcoming life's greatest challenges.
Misty Smith
Car accident where Misty received miracles.
Misty fighting for her life from Covid-19.
Misty (with her husband) accomplished her goal of running a half marathon.
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Transcript
Intro: [00:00:00] Welcome to Latter Day Miracles, where we share true stories of angels and marvels. Get ready to enjoy accounts from everyday people that remind us of divine love, that we're never truly alone, and the power of faith in these latter days. I'm Haley Hatch Freeman. And I'm Misty Smith. Sit back, open your heart and prepare to be inspired.
Haley Freeman: Hi, welcome again. We are so excited to bring you another amazing miracle story. Today Misty gets to share her personal story and I am just so excited for you guys to get to know her a little bit better. Let me introduce her. And then we will let her talk. Misty is a mother to five beautiful children and they are amazing.
Um, and wife to a husband who makes her life constantly. Yes. She graduated as a [00:01:00] veterinarian technician and since then can be found working with dogs and cats, fostering training, pet sitting, or simply being with them. She enjoys all sorts of hobbies that have led her down many roads, such as sewing, quilting, gardening, and fitness.
She has a baking business, making wedding cakes for family and friends for over a decade, and continuously increases her skills with cakes. bread, pasta and all things food. And she's so talented.
Misty Smith: Oh, you're sweet.
Haley Freeman: During the COVID-19 pandemic, Misty faced some intense trials that almost took her life during this time. She was blessed with miracles, the thinning of the veil, and a witness of God answering prayers and the immense love he has for every one of his children. As she recovered, she learned more about diabetes, liver care, healthy living, fitness and mental wellness.
She advocates for these and loves to reach out to those who [00:02:00] struggle in these areas. Misty loves working with youth, especially after her witness. She has truly enjoyed learning about everyone's stories and their drive in life.
Misty Smith: Yeah.
Haley Freeman: Okay.
Misty Smith: Okay. I guess I got to start my story and I, I guess I have to talk a little bit about the background of it.
It'll make when we wrap it all up, so, this was before Covid actually. It was during the market when everything, all the houses started rising in prices. And we wondered if we should sell. And we prayed and fasted and it felt right, things worked out. There were a lot of little miracles with that alone.
And we decided to take the journey to move. Well, we were crazy and we kind of moved, well, we first moved into my mom's condo and so it's a family of four [00:03:00] at that. Four kids at that time, and we, so we had the four kids in one room. We were homeschooling during that time
At that point, because I had been praying a lot, we had had lots of answers to different things in our life. I decided to kneel and I did one silly thing that I feel. I don't know. I don't know if anyone should do it, but I asked God to do what he would with me to grow.
Haley Freeman: Wow.
Misty Smith: Yeah. I literally told him I wanna be his hands and do whatever he needed me to do.
So that was the start of it. We sold our home and I wanted to. Run. I, I loved running, um, but I wanted to try running a half marathon. So what do I do with all my time? Well, all of our stuff is in storage and you know, it's during covid time, I'm just going [00:04:00] to train to run.
Then a week later we got a call. Um, and my mother-in-law, passed away. Uh, that was, that was really hard. While we were getting ready for her funeral, this takes me right into my first little miracle. Uh, we decided to go early and we were driving down to her funeral and we had my brother-in-law.
In the back. We had a suburban, and so it was my family. My husband and I were sitting in the front. My two kids and my brother-in-law were sitting in the middle. And then my brother-in-law's boy, so my nephew, he was pestering my kids that morning to put on their seat belts. Like he, he never does.
I remember being like, okay, you know, okay kids, he's right. Put on your seat belts. And, uh, they're just like, oh, okay. You know, cousins teasing each other. And so it was my [00:05:00] nephew and my two daughters in the back and we were driving down and a car pulled out. Um, and we tried. We, we went and pulled to the left to go around and they also swerved to the left.
We swerved to the right, they swerved to the right, and our car decided to start, fish tailing.
Haley Freeman: Mm-hmm.
Misty Smith: I think that's what it's called.
Yeah.
in the back I just knew. I just knew we were going to flip.
Haley Freeman: Oh my gosh.
Misty Smith: And it was slow motion like a movie. It was, it was crazy. But it's like Right.
Then I tapped, like everything became so still, and I remember a voice telling me to put my head back.
Haley Freeman: Wow.
Misty Smith: All the way. And I did. And not to move. So our car started to flip and it flipped once and I kept my head back and it flipped [00:06:00] twice. And the um, I remember the glass breaking. Um, we flipped again and I remember my head hitting really hard on the top.
I had my seatbelt. The only person that wasn't wearing a seatbelt was my brother-in-law and he was behind me. And then we flipped a fourth time and then we balanced out, and thankfully we balanced out on our wheels. I remember as I was flipping, I briefly opened my eyes and I remember seeing my brother-in-law being thrown.
Oh my gosh.
That, that was scary, but it was. It was the stillness. It was so scary. I remember thinking, is my family dead?
Haley Freeman: Oh my gosh.
Misty Smith: Um, sorry.
Haley Freeman: No.
Misty Smith: And I [00:07:00] remember hearing my little boy in the back and he yelled, he was the first one to yell, and he's like, get me outta here. And that was the best noise.
Haley Freeman: Mm-hmm.
Misty Smith: Ever. Um. I had my eyes closed because I did not wanna see if something bad had happened to any of my family. So I kept my eyes shut, but I felt Alex, my husband, move and I knew he was okay. And slowly I started hearing voices and I heard my nephew yell out, where's my dad? And I remember kind of peeking my eye open for a second.
And I saw him laying on the side of the road. Um, that was, that was scary also. But, it was crazy because the person or the people that were in the other car, one of them was a, [00:08:00] emergency person, um, I'm not sure.
Haley Freeman: First responder.
Misty Smith: Yeah, she was. And she came over and she quickly took hold of. My neck and she started helping me through this.
So throughout this whole thing, I kept my eyes more or less shut, and all of a sudden I started feeling hands on the left side of my body all up and down my legs and my, and my body. And I just knew that if I opened my eyes, I would see angels.
Haley Freeman: Hmm.
Misty Smith: But I was so scared to drive them away that I just chose to keep my eyes shut and believe and just trust I was pinned down into the car. I got the worst of it, the way the car flipped. It wasn't till later when I opened my eyes and when I opened them for a second, I [00:09:00] saw that the rim of the vehicle had broken down. And if I had leaned forward even just a little bit, the car would have gone through me.
Haley Freeman: Mm.
Misty Smith: So that alone was a testament that it was an angel. Yeah. Talking to me. That was incredible. They did have to cut me out with the jaws. The jaws of death, or the jaws of life, I don't remember what they're called, jaws of life. They had to cut, cut me out. I was pinned. They couldn't get a, a man in there to help me.
And that's what I was like, I, but I felt so many hands on me and they had to pull me out. And I was taken to the ambulance. An incredible thing was because I was pinned, the car, tore through the upper part of my, knee muscles, all the muscles in my quadriceps, and, and so I still feel the welt.
Haley Freeman: Oh,
Misty Smith: It's a [00:10:00] reminder of what happened.
Haley Freeman: Wow.
Misty Smith: Uh, so I had to recover. Thankfully, my brother-in-law is a physical therapist, so he helped me. Get through that. And it took a while. So my dreams of running were
put aside for a bit. Let's fast forward a couple months we decided to move in with my brother-in-law because he had a little bit more space, and so we moved there.
The crazy thing is that all of our family was in one room. Now but this room was ginormous. It could fit a king size bed, queen size bed, and all of our stuff. We were set. So we were okay. We were there and, uh, again, COVID was happening. We were homeschooling, so we hadn't been hit by it. Until one day we were, and my brother-in-law had it first,
so my brother-in-law, he was fine. When he was thrown out the window, he [00:11:00] only ended up walking out with a few scratches. Wow. All the nurses at the ER were amazed. They kept reminding him about wearing seat belts, so wear your seat belts. But, he kept saying that he was, it was like, he blacked out for a second and he didn't remember how he got to the side of the road.
He knew what happened. But the way I like to see it is it's almost like he was spared that and taken care of to only have a couple scratches. So he knows that it's a miracle and he feels blessed by it just as much as we all do. So he's fine, we're fine. I'm recovering. We move into his place.
We're living out of a little tiny walk-in closet and we got hit by Covid. And we were worried about it. Um, not necessarily. I think everyone was, , no one really knew at that point how [00:12:00] people, reacted by having it. And all my kids got it. They recovered just fine my husband got it.
It was harder on him , and for me, and I wasn't getting better, and I remember one morning it was at 2:00 AM I woke up and I had this feeling that if I didn't go in, something bad would happen. And I couldn't breathe. I remember just not being able to breathe at all. I was struggling. I woke up Alex, and I told him I need to go to the er, which I've never done before in my life.
He believed me. There was no hesitation. There was no, let's see. He just knew that I wouldn't ask unless it was necessary. And he said he felt like he needed to listen to me. So we went in and. I had Covid and they sent me home with this little oximeter, you put on [00:13:00] your fingers, they monitor.
And it was so neat because they monitored my lung capacity, my oxygen from home.
Haley Freeman: Wow.
Misty Smith: So I was sent home and I felt a million times better at the hospital because they put the IVs and everything and I wasn't able to eat. I wasn't able to, I don't even know for how many days. I felt like I was barely.
Living and it hurt. And no one understood the type of pain that I started feeling internally. I was home for only a couple days and my oxygen kept dropping well below. And because they were monitoring me, they called and told my husband that I needed to go into the hospital. I remember talking or trying to talk to the lady that was calling us and trying to convince her that I would be fine, that I would get over this.
She literally said, can I speak with someone else? And she told my husband that I am [00:14:00] dropping well below healthy levels and I needed to go in immediately. And so my husband listened and I'm grateful he did, and he took me in at the hospital. I didn't realize how bad I was, but I was so bad.
The hospital staff did everything they could and I exhausted the resources.
Haley Freeman: Oh my.
Misty Smith: The doctor came in and said, there's literally nothing else we can do at this hospital. You need to be transported right now, to another hospital, to the intensive unit, care unit area, that takes care of this.
They have a whole covid floor dedicated to this. So at that moment, I had heard about this Covid floor in this hospital and a lot of people who never came out.
Haley Freeman: Oh, my. [00:15:00]
Misty Smith: And at that moment we didn't know, all of us were still experimenting and with Covid and trying to get over it.
And so I was transported that night by an ambulance again. And I remember thinking, how many people ride in an ambulance twice, within half a year, like months apart, you know? That was interesting. We got there and as I was trying to recover, I remember many times the doctors and nurses coming in and telling me, we just don't understand why you're not getting better.
You're so young. I started hurting so bad that I just more or less wanted to die. My insides hurt. Every time I took a breath. It was just so much for my body. I remember at that point, everyone that entered [00:16:00] into my room had to get dressed in full gown and I wasn't able to have any visitors. That was really hard.
Doing trials alone is one of the hardest things, especially if you don't know where it's going.
Haley Freeman: Yeah.
Misty Smith: And you and the world didn't know where it was going I remember lying in bed. I had days, I don't even know how many days at that moment. I think, , my husband said I was there nine days at that hospital and I remember so many doctors coming in and constantly poking me and prodding me, and they would keep telling me they're going to administer a new drug. , they ended up finding out that, I had at that point diabetes. And the diabetes was so. So bad that it was causing all my organs be [00:17:00] working at a hundred percent and they were starting to fail because of it.
Haley Freeman: And you never had it before?
Misty Smith: So I only had gestational diabetes.
Haley Freeman: Okay.
Misty Smith: So they were injecting me with all sorts of stuff. And honestly, the needles didn't even matter anymore because I was in so much pain, every breath. And I remember them talking to my husband and saying. We're getting close to Max, what we could give her.
Mm.
Misty Smith: And there was nowhere to go from there.
So that was hard. It was hard thinking that, , these nurses were taking care of me fully. My husband had to come back and forth between my children because people couldn't watch my kids because they still had covid.
Haley Freeman: Oh my gosh.
Misty Smith: Thankfully we had amazing people in the ward that would literally drop meals off at the door, knock and run they were so sweet and they were lifesavers like [00:18:00] meals mean so much and I don't think people realize it. So I was there and I remember wanting to just give up. I remember waking up one night. And my husband, he was praying for me
and then he started begging me not to give up. He said he sensed that I was giving up and he sensed that my time might come.
Hmm.
And that he had been told by doctors that they didn't know if I would make it.
Haley Freeman: Hmm.
Misty Smith: So at that moment, I remember thinking how mean of him to ask me to stay when I was in so much pain?
And he begged me and he, I remember him telling me, think of your children. Think of your kids. I cannot do this alone.
And I remember so selfishly thinking you could do it alone. I can't do [00:19:00] this. Even my kids weren't enough for me to want to stay, which is crazy to think about now that I'm
Haley Freeman: not in the pain anymore.
Misty Smith: Yeah. So that night when at some point he left and I was in and out. And I remember a voice, and this voice let me know that I had the choice to stay or to go.
And I remember thinking, of course I'm gonna go I'm just done this so painful. And then this voice told me again to stay or to go again, and if it weren't for my husband that night, I think I would've happily accepted. Leaving, it was so painful. I don't even know how some make it through. But anyways, okay, so obviously I'm here.
I made that choice.
Haley Freeman: We're so glad.
Misty Smith: Yeah. I decided to [00:20:00] make that choice, but I remember talking to this voice and telling this voice that if I choose to stay. that I needed help obviously and I remember there was a discussion happening between me and this being of, if you decide to stay, you have mission.
And I, at some point fell asleep because I was in and out. And let me tell you, that was the first night I slept without pain.
Haley Freeman: Oh wow. That's beautiful.
Misty Smith: Yeah, it was amazing. I actually slept, I remember being woken up by another nurse, you know, , getting blood and they were so happy for me.
And they said something happened and I felt recovery. I remember texting my mom because my phone was laying there and had just enough energy [00:21:00] to let her know I slept. That was incredible. And then I fell asleep. I woke up and then I remember feeling grateful and I prayed. And when I prayed. I had a very deep feeling to open my scriptures on my phone, and I did, and it was the coolest experience I ever had, but I had all this guidance popping out of me.
You know, like the movies where they just like sometimes highlight words and like kind of pops out.
Haley Freeman: Mm-hmm.
Misty Smith: That would happen.
Haley Freeman: Hmm.
Misty Smith: And then I would know that at the end of a paragraph or a verse I should say, then I would switch to a different part and it was like a continuation.
Haley Freeman: Wow.
Misty Smith: It was so neat. It happened and it happened and I got personal revelation on what my mission was.
Haley Freeman: Wow.
Misty Smith: That was. That was incredible. I went home and [00:22:00] so that was my first part of my miracle. And my second part is a, a little, more intense because even though I got released, I was sent home with one of those little.
Puffer things, I don't know what they're called, but you blow air into them and the only way I could get released from the hospital is if that little ball would rise up just enough. And I was barely making it like. Barely. I remember, I, I remember my husband being like, just blowing it regular, you know, like the doctors would come and be like, you have to, I would blow with all my mind and that thing would move.
Mm.
Um, and so by the time it got released, obviously it was barely, I, I was barely cleared. Wow. So I was good. So I was home and Alex had to carry me to my bed. I couldn't walk, but a few steps he had to help me bathe and go to the bathroom and carry me. And, I was [00:23:00] again like a child and I was so mad. I remember so mad one of the first days because I found out that a close friend who had been checking up on us, his brother had passed away and he had done what I wanted to do.
He stayed home when he had Covid and he chose not to go in and he was about our age and he ended up going in too late.
Haley Freeman: Wow.
Misty Smith: And he ended up passing.
Haley Freeman: Wow.
Misty Smith: He left behind his wife and his two children. And when I found out I was so mad because why? Why did I go in his place? He was a breadwinner to this family, and I couldn't imagine the heartache that this woman and her children were going through.
They were young kids and my friend, and they were in so [00:24:00] much pain because of it, and they never told us. They just kept checking up on us, and they're amazing people. I was so mad. And I think my husband called it like survivor's remorse or something.
Haley Freeman: Survivors guilt.
Misty Smith: Yeah, something like that. I was so mad.
Haley Freeman: Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah.
Misty Smith: But, and he got so mad at me and he's like, how dare you, your children are home. Your home.
Haley Freeman: Yeah.
Misty Smith: This is what we begged for. We prayed for this.
Haley Freeman: Right.
Misty Smith: Oh, talking about praying, that was one thing that was also a miracle was at the hospital, my husband and my family had written and reached out to past wards and, family neighbors to pray for me and that night of recovery, I literally felt people's prayers.
Haley Freeman: Wow.
Misty Smith: I heard voices. Pray for me.
Haley Freeman: Wow.
Misty Smith: And so the power of prayer [00:25:00] is amazing. And I have a full testimony and on how prayer literally helps people.
Wow.
It helped me. Without a doubt, I don't think that I would've also made it through without that. So, , between prayers and the love of people and my husband.
I was home and I was angry that I just me like, what did I have to offer this world that this husband. Didn't, you know, , why me? And like, take me. Hmm. And my husband's just like, how dare you? He was so mad at me and he had every right to be mad at me. Poor guy. He had, he has been taking care of kids, me, not knowing you could get his wife back.
Haley Freeman: Yeah. It's hard.
Misty Smith: So , he ended up just leaving and closing the door . He was just mad and he left and I was just crying. I was [00:26:00] truly sad and I fell asleep crying, . And then I remember waking up and it was just, when you're taking a nap and you're kind of slowly waking up and kind of hear birds, you know.
And I felt like I was back at the hospital, like I really thought I was back at the hospital. Another nurse was prodding me and bugging me or rolling me over or something. No, honestly helping me. And I remember feeling soothing in my lungs and I felt so good. I finally had relief. My lungs, I could breathe and it didn't hurt and I wasn't, I.
I don't know. It just felt so cooling and refreshing and I remember kind of glancing over and then realizing, wait a second, I, someone's hands are in my lungs.
Haley Freeman: [00:27:00] Wow.
Misty Smith: But I was still like waking up and I just remember telling this nurse, thank you. And. And she removed her hands from my lungs and she stood up and I remember looking at her and I was trying to process what was happening because I was in my room.
But this woman had stood up and walked around the edge of my bed out to the corner of the bottom of my bed, the right side bottom. Um, she was looking out the sliding door window. And I remember being confused and I was like, what nurse came to our house? Like, and she was beautiful and she was young and I remember her having blonde hair and she never looked at me, but it was a side profile at that point.
She was just saying some things. And I was trying to piece together, like I was trying to process what she was saying, and in that very minute, I [00:28:00] remember feeling the love of God
Misty Smith: What I meant to him, that I mattered. And that I matter so much. And then he gave me a little glimpse, the slightest little touch of a glimpse of how much love he has for every single person on this earth has ever existed and ever will. And it was so intense that it took my breath away. It was. So amazing. I couldn't deny it, and I saw my value when I realized I matter.
And this woman,
she continued to give me words of advice or direction. They were sentences and they were all kind of broken up sentences and I didn't fully understand all of them.
Um, she told me I would recover. I [00:29:00] was, I was going to be okay. And that was obviously amazing. So after that, she let me know I could go back to sleep and she asked me if there was anything else. And I just remember telling her, thank you so much. And she turned and she looked at me.
And because of the way the sun was coming through, she was just so bright and I remember I just thanked her from the bottom of my heart because for once I felt relief and I fell asleep and comfort, and next thing I knew was my husband was opening the door and I had fallen asleep.
He said he was on his way upstairs before, and something very strong had asked him or told him rather, that he shouldn't continue to go upstairs, and he did. And he felt a very strong push to not go [00:30:00] upstairs.
Haley Freeman: Wow.
Misty Smith: And so he stopped and he sat the bottom of the stairs for the longest time. He eventually came and checked on me, which is when I woke up and I remember waking up to him and he asked me how I was, and I remember telling him.
Better. Who was that woman that was here? And , I remember him looking around and then being like, I need to go. I'm just, I'm just gonna go. And I was like, okay, you don't just go. I was so tired and I fell back asleep. Anyways, so fast forward to recovery and every day that had gone by, I couldn't believe what I had gone through.
Pardon me, thought I was a little crazy. Did I really go through something like this? I didn't know who it was that visited me. Um, she wasn't familiar, but yet she was familiar and my [00:31:00] recovery was hard. Every day I challenge myself to get up and walk, even if it was one extra step. And the first day was just walking up to the door to my bedroom door and week by week.
And I remember telling my husband one day, I'm going to run a half marathon.
Haley Freeman: Mm-hmm. Wow.
Misty Smith: 'cause I can't imagine never running again. And the doctors didn't know how my recovery would be, , due to, not knowing. So much of survivors of such intense covid symptoms. So yeah. , I think that was, obviously I'm here, I ended up recovering enough and , the neat thing was that I had this experience, but I had at some point.
I felt like I had to tell family and I kept having this nudge and I kept remembering what this [00:32:00] spirit, I believe it was the Holy Ghost, maybe God, I'm not sure was telling me and had asked me to do as part of my mission. And I then started realizing that part of my mission was the things that this angel had told me.
Were, um, guidance for family.
Hmm.
And I got a very intense feeling when I knew that I was supposed to deliver messages to certain family members. And , it was incredible. And I think there were times when, again, I felt a little like, did I make this up? Am I crazy? And it was always those reminders when I would deliver a message that I realized I was not crazy and I didn't make this up, and that I could not deny
Haley Freeman: no.
One thing I wanna say with you telling the story? I felt, , the spirit, I felt the Holy Ghost, , testifying to me, this is true, this happened. So I think that's one test to rely on, [00:33:00] when we hear these stories, if you feel the spirit, you know it's real. The second thing is. Uh, I think that Satan wants to, his job, his number one job when after we have these incredible testifying experiences and these beautiful experiences, his number one job is to jump in and to say, no, you didn't.
, like the story we have of Moses, right? When he learned that he was a son of God, and the first thing Satan comes in, is to say, hi, son of man that's that story. That's scripture. So we know that that's, um, the very first thing the adversary is gonna do is to try to tell you, no, you didn't have this experience.
I don't know if you've ever heard, heard the concept of , what the most important word is in the scriptures or anywhere is to remember, because we need to remember when we have these experiences because yeah, as soon as Satan jumps in, he's gonna say, no, you didn't.
No, you didn't. Mm-hmm. And try to make you forget it. That's his number one job. And so to remember. No, we did have this experience and it is real and , rely on the spirit to tell us. Yeah, we did. It is real. So, don't ever think you're crazy or doubt it.
Yeah,
it is real. [00:34:00] And I did, I have felt the spirit.
Spirit tell me it is real. And you did have that experience.
So good.
Are there any lessons that you would like to share that you've learned that you would like to share with us during your trial.
Misty Smith: Yeah. , well, obviously the first one was he loves you. He loves, there's times when I hear, a youth or my children or even myself feel unloved and I have to remember.
And I remember, and honestly, that big old dent in my leg helps me remember how valuable I am. And, and that, uh, which is leads to another lesson is agency. And he respects you. And the fact that I had a choice to stay or
to go,
Haley Freeman: yeah.
That's amazing because in the story I was telling last episode I did too.
Isn't that amazing? You have agency he'll never take away your agency.
Misty Smith: Right. When I heard you say
that, I was like, wait a [00:35:00] second. Really?
Haley Freeman: I didn't know you had that. I didn't know. That's amazing. Yeah.
Misty Smith: Yeah. So
Haley Freeman: that's beautiful.
Misty Smith: That, and a really neat thing about that, which I don't know why I forgot to even touch on it until just now, was, neat things happened after.
I remember my brother-in-law when I was telling him what happened in his own home, because he was on the one that opened his doors to us. He had witnessed to me that he had felt an incredible amount of spirit of his mother that week where he had even had to pull over on his way to work because he just sensed his mom being near him , those days.
Right around or before, during and after. , and he just knew that his mother loved him. And when this was happening, he had shown me a picture that his future wife drew [00:36:00] before, and she, for some reason, didn't give it to him until. That moment, like it was literally like a couple days before and she had apologized to him and said, I'm sorry, I haven't given this to you, but I drew this and it was a picture I've seen of my mother-in-law so many times, but it was black and white and she looks so young and when he showed me this picture, it hit me that I was looking at the angel like came to visit me.
It was my mother-in-law, which led me to be a bit fearful because why me? Why me when all my family, my husband's family was hurting 'cause they had lost her. So that was one of those things I feel Satan, uh, can also do is, is question your worth, your ability of why you.
Haley Freeman: Absolutely.
Misty Smith: Why do you experience things?
Haley Freeman: That's beautiful. [00:37:00] So you were able to connect then that the angel was your mother-in-law?
Misty Smith: Yes.
Haley Freeman: That's amazing.
Misty Smith: Yeah.
Haley Freeman: That's so beautiful.
Misty Smith: Yeah, and she was young and beautiful.
Haley Freeman: Oh, I love that. That's so beautiful. Do you have any tips or advice that you would give anybody? In any similar situation that you had?
Misty Smith: Yeah, so I had, mentioned that I got diabetes, um, and it's stuck.
Haley Freeman: So you still have diabetes now?
Misty Smith: I still have diabetes now.
Haley Freeman: Okay. Wow, that's interesting.
Misty Smith: And, um, a little bit of a crazy thing that happened is I got covid again last year. Which I think I know had mentioned to you.
Haley Freeman: Mm-hmm.
Misty Smith: My whole family and people that knew that what I had gone through were a bit fearful.
Haley Freeman: Yeah. It made me nervous.
Misty Smith: Yeah. They didn't know how my body would react I didn't know we all knew what to do and how to handle it, I guess. Uh, kind of. Mm-hmm. Um, but I also [00:38:00] wondered if I would. Receive another message, I guess you could say.
Haley Freeman: Yeah.
Misty Smith: And, and I was blessed to be able to, I received an I love you again, like a reminder of his love.
But it was more of. You still haven't done what I asked you to do, and I remember being like, I'm doing the best that I can.
Haley Freeman: You're amazing.
Misty Smith: You're so sweet. I remember being like, what? And I remember the feeling of the voice telling me, you need to love. And I remember thinking, I literally gave my life to be a mother.
How am I not loving people all the time? Like, you're, I'm like, you're, yeah. So I remember thinking, okay, what? Now I realize a few things. When you go through hard things, trials like these where you don't know the outcome. If you don't choose to involve others, you need to involve [00:39:00] a higher being, God, the Lord, the spirit.
You need to involve him, to help you make those choices. Don't ever make a choice on your own. Because I think that's where Satan slips in.
Haley Freeman: For sure.
Misty Smith: And tells you. So I would say that those people who are struggling with, um, health issues, because at that moment I got that. And, and also to continue with the second bout of Covid, I got better.
I reacted the way that I feel many people did. Now it was a sickness. It was hard, but I overcame it. And when I went into the doctor, because I just wasn't feeling good internally again, and I still had that feeling. He took all the tests and my doctor, which again is no coincidence, was one that fed my children while I was
Haley Freeman: Oh,
Misty Smith: yes. While I was in the first time. So he knew my whole story. Yeah. Yeah. He did all the tests and I remember telling me, [00:40:00] um, Misty. I am treating you the same way that I would treat a 76-year-old woman internally, like your organs.
Haley Freeman: Wow.
Misty Smith: My organs were very worn.
Oh.
And so I guess my liver had issues, uh, with diabetes.
Along with that. At that moment I had mental struggles, um, and I didn't realize it and. He told me, you take care of so many people in your life, let me take care of you. And I remember thinking, how good is God to bless me with someone that knows my story and I can help me? And so going in and accepting that I needed help was one of those things.
So if you're going through difficult situations, if it's health, if it's mental. Just accept it and allow [00:41:00] yourself to be taken care of.
Mm-hmm.
So that's a message that I try to share is of the allowance of love loving others and being loved, um, with whatever trials you're going
through.
Haley Freeman: Absolutely. Absolutely. Yes. So as we come to an end of your beautiful story, do you have one final message that you want people just to take away? Just one final, like, if they take away nothing else, one main thing to take away away.
This one was hard. So hard. I think the main thing I learned from all of this is that you are loved and you matter.
So much he loves you so much to allow you to make choices in this life if it's into your detriment or not.
Haley Freeman: Yeah.
Misty Smith: And so I would just want to, I just wanna hug everyone that's struggling.
Haley Freeman: Yeah.
Misty Smith: And honestly, with my last bout of Covid, and realigning myself [00:42:00] to love others.
My life has been so fulfilled and I've been getting better. And, uh, I ran my, my half marathon, by the way.
Haley Freeman: Did you?
Misty Smith: I did. I totally did. It was like a year and a half ago or something, and so you totally can do so much when you love and allow yourself to be loved.
Haley Freeman: Beautiful. Well, we are so thankful that you are healed and able to do this podcast with me,
Misty Smith: and it's so good.
Haley Freeman: We have some awesome, miracle stories coming up for you guys in the next coming weeks and, I hope you guys stick with us on this journey. And until next time.
Outro: Thank you for joining us on latter Day Miracles. If you have a miracle story that you feel inspired to share, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us on our website at latterdaymiracles.net or message us on social media. Until next time, keep your heart open to the miraculous [00:43:00] and may you feel the presence of angels in your everyday life.
00:00 Introduction to Latter Day Miracles
00:28 Meet Misty Smith
02:13 Misty's Pre-COVID Journey
04:09 The Car Accident Miracle
10:40 Battling COVID-19
19:13 A Divine Choice to Stay
22:29 Struggles of Recovery
22:58 Survivor's Guilt and Anger
24:28 The Power of Prayer
26:04 A Miraculous Encounter
30:33 Messages from Beyond
34:05 Lessons Learned
41:15 Final Reflections and Gratitude
