Love's Enduring Promise

Love's Enduring Promise is a 2004 made-for-television Christian drama film based on a series of books by Janette Oke. The film is the second in the Love Comes Softly series of television movies on Hallmark Channel that includes Love Comes Softly (2003), Love's Long Journey (2005), Love's Abiding Joy (2006), Love's Unending Legacy (2007), Love's Unfolding Dream, Love Takes Wing (2009), and Love Finds a Home produced for Hallmark by Larry Levinson Productions(2009), as well as the 2011 prequels Love Begins and Love's Everlasting Courage. Synopsis Missie Davis (January Jones) is a young woman working as a school teacher in the West. She falls in love with a rich young man called Grant Thomas (Mackenzie Astin) who works on the railroad, and he asks her to dine with him on Saturday. Missie's father Clark is out cutting wood when he accidentally drops his axe and it hits his leg and badly injures it. His son tries to help him but Clark goes unconscious. A young man called Willie LaHaye (Logan Bartholomew) is riding past and sees what happened, and quickly gets Clark into his cart and takes him to his home. Missie rushes to take Clark inside while Willie rides off before Missie can thank him. The doctor tells Clark's wife Marty that Clark has had a serious injury and has to rest for at least a few weeks because if the wound gets infected then he could lose his leg or worse. Missie has to close the school and work in the fields doing the ploughing because her father can't, and she misses her dinner with Grant.