I had been serving for four months in Miri, a part of the Singapore Mission, when I first met Mit anak Entring.

Sister Alice Clark and I were assisting the missionaries as they invited a family to be baptized. Mit, a relative of the family, sat down across from me and smiled. It was a familiar smile that I had seen before. Prior to my mission I was a volunteer for a non-profit organization that sends medical teams to developing countries to perform cleft lip and palate surgeries.

She covered her smile to mask her facial deformity. But, to me, her smile was beautiful. Mit's eyes were filled with the light of Christ. She was a child of God.

Her parents died when she was 3 years old. Before her parents died, doctors went to her village and offered an operation. Her parents were frightened she would be taken or hurt, so they refused the operation.

Mit's cousin, Statie, raised her after her parents died. Statie had lost her parents as well, and both lived with their grandmother. Mit never attended school and had trouble speaking. She could not read or write and had a difficult time communicating because she had lost a portion of her hearing.

Sister Jessica Viehweg, Sister Emilie Wong and Sister Sandy Lor taught Mit the gospel. She attended Church for five months and watched video sessions of general conference — not understanding it. But she felt the Spirit and was taught in a way none of us could see.

She was baptized April 30, 2011, and confirmed the following day. That afternoon she was admitted to the hospital for surgery. Mit was selected as a candidate for free cleft palate surgery by a non-profit organization in Malaysia. Sister Clark had seen a brochure advertising the free surgery three days before we first met Mit.

A doctor asked me to have Mit's hearing checked to see if she could be helped by hearing aids. Two months later she received hearing aids.

Mit needed a birth certificate and an identity card. We never could have accomplished this if it hadn't been for our interpreter and branch member, Mashrony. She facilitated getting the chief of the village to sign a statement showing that Mit had been born there.

Mit was awarded an official birth certificate. She received an identity card in October of 2011. As she has been blessed, so too have we been blessed.

We have a saying here in Miri: "We don't have 'miracles.' We have 'Miri-cles." "Miri-cles" for Mit. — Sister Susan Lowe, Singapore Mission