We are a people of miracles. Every week, perhaps every day, we read stories of miraculous events in the scriptures. Angels, healings, the parting of the Red Sea, five loaves and two fishes feeding a multitude, Jesus walking on water, and the Apostle Peter doing it too. And there, in Matthew 17:20, the promise that "If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you."
I remember being in Primary and hearing this verse for the first time. My very diligent Primary teacher led a discussion about what this meant—that if we only had a tiny seed of faith (mustard seeds are small!), then by the power of God we could move mountains.
Conveniently for me, I was raised in Salt Lake City, so there was no shortage of mountains to aim my faith at. And I already knew that children had exemplary faith—the Savior Himself had said as much! (Matthew 18:3–5) So later that week, I decided to try it out.
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