Temple Proxy Saves Patron's Daughter

This story has been circulating in the form of an e-mail on the internet. The basic jist is this:

A woman decides to go to the temple and do some temple work for her ancestors. While she is there she has a distinct feeling that she should go home. She informs a temple worker of her feelings and the temple worker politely and kindly tells her to just relax and everything will be fine. The woman accepts this but has the feeling again later. The temple worker gives her the same response. This is repeated several times until the woman finally finishes the session at the temple and hurries home to her daughter. When she arrives, she finds that her daughter had wandered off and fallen into the pool and nearly drowned. According to the daughter, a woman in white came and saved her. The baby-sitter confirms this story and describes the woman who saved the little girl and then adds that she just dissappeared. The mother asks if she happened to get the woman's name. The baby-sitter says "yes, she wrote it on this piece of paper." The mother then takes the paper and on it she finds the name of the woman for whom she did the temple work that day.

What a nice story! There are a few problems though. I don't even have to try and track this one down. It isn't doctrinally sound. Here are the problems I have with this story:

1- If the daughter was going to be saved by the spirit woman, why was the mother prompted to leave the temple?

2- As a spirit being, the woman would have had no body with which to save the girl.

3- The woman also would have had no body with which to hold a pencil and write her name on a piece of paper.

4- Temple workers are not in the habit of discouraging people from acting upon promptings they receive in the temple.

All of these points add up to make this a fishy story at best. It sounds nice and probably gives alot of people "warm fuzzies", but warm fuzzies should not be mistaken for the whisperings of the spirit which are unmistakeable and real.

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