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Rubicon wrote: November 28th, 2022, 2:52 pm Healing blessings are a big part of my family's testimony (family of six). We have had such a good track record, that it scares me a little, because God does not answer every blessing immediately or in the way we expect. Here are two examples:

1) When our oldest was an infant but could sit up, my wife had him on the counter. He put his hand into the hot toaster and started screaming. His hand looked frightening (at least 2nd degree burns --- really raw and ugly). Before rushing him to the ER, I gave him a blessing, and we noticed in the car (we kept turning around to look at his hand) that his burns were gone. Not improved, but completely gone --- as in just as it was before he burned his hand in the toaster.

2) My wife has had a severe clotting and bleeding disorder for over ten years that has resulted in long hospitalizations. She has to be on high doses of warfarin (blood thinner), or she clots massively in her internal organs, but this also leads to "leakage" in her veins and bleeding. In December 2020 (we all know what that was like), she took a rapid turn for the worse. She had been bleeding in her bowels, but that was nothing new, but she rapidly went downhill to the point that she was unconscious when I got her to the ER. They wouldn't let me be there to speak for her, and they released her barely conscious, saying that her hemoglobin levels didn't justify transfusions. They wouldn't talk to me and pushed her out the door --- they were solely interested in and concerned with Coronavirus. If I could, I would have pressed them on blood pressure and blood volume (she can have decent iron levels in the test, but no blood). In fact, in a recent hospitalization where we nearly lost her, her blood pressure was 54/45 (they gave her norepinephrine to artificially boost her blood pressure, and the ER doctors didn't understand how her pulse rate could be normal with her pressure so low). I took her home scared (she was extremely weak and barely conscious), and gave her a blessing where I told her to rise up, take up her bed, and walk --- and I told her that she would live to hold her grandchildren in her arms (our kids are mission and start of college age). She had her best long stretch after that blessing, being stronger than she had been in years. We talked about how blessings aren't or shouldn't be a health care plan, but when push comes to shove, we are grateful to have access to the priesthood in times like this.

The ER doctor most recently told me that we must be living right, because of a number of things (like her blood pressure being so low without her heart working like crazy to try to pump what little blood she had). We were looking at a week-long wait for the ICU at a major hospital in Phoenix, but an ICU bed opened up for her immediately. He didn't understand how she had remained alive without brain or organ damage after hours of treatment in the ER at such a low blood pressure.
Awesome stories! I'm glad God is helping you so much. 💗 💓 🧡


They wouldn't let me be there to speak for her, and they released her barely conscious, saying that her hemoglobin levels didn't justify transfusions. They wouldn't talk to me and pushed her out the door --- they were solely interested in and concerned with Coronavirus
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I know at least one young woman who probably would have died if her uncle (a doctor in another state) hadn't strongly told her to return to the ER after they'd said nothing was wrong with her. Turned out to be a huge tumor that could have killed her. The fear-mongering over cov has probably panicked a lot of hospital workers into letting needy people die (refusing to treat them or refusing to let family members in who can tell them what's wrong - or both).

I am so glad you have shown us strong witnesses that God can do healings when doctors refuse (I think it was Fred who also had that experience some years ago with his daughter).

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LostCreekAcres wrote: November 28th, 2022, 3:20 pm When I was a child (maybe 12), our family took a day trip to the mountains. I returned home with such a terrible earache. Dad gave me a blessing. Ear felt fine, but mom took me to the doctor next day. He said, "I can't understand how this child isn't screaming in pain." :)

As an adult, when my children were small, we bought a trampoline. Rule: when someone says they are getting off the trampoline, everyone must stop and be still. I told my young girls I was getting off. Went to step off and they both came running at me "No, mom! Don't get off." As a result, they sent me flying. Elbow hurt. Went to emergency room. They said too swollen to do anything. Stabilized and sent me to a specialist. He said, needs to remove part of the bone and to put in pins after swelling comes down. Actually got a second opinion from another doctor and he said same thing. Ugh. Home teachers gave me a blessing. Said, "I bless you to know that the Lord can knit back the bones in your elbow." Well, ya, I know it, but will He?
Went for surgery. Surgeon was with me when I woke. He relayed that he felt impressed to manipulate my elbow a bit before cutting it open. He was amazed and said that all the little fragments simply went back together and better than he could have done with surgery. :) Went to therapy for several weeks. They wanted to release me from therapy and I complained that I still couldn't make my arm go straight. As it ended, I never realized that both my arms overextended and that now this "fixed" elbow was actually perfect and didn't overextend anymore:) Still, after all these many years, feels weird not to be able to overextend that arm. However, the Lord fixed it perfectly!
Many other small miracles in my life. Thanks for the reminders:)
These stories are so encouraging - especially in light of the fact that we will -maybe sooner rather than later- not be able to rely on the medical profession for serious health problems in the future.

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Narnia wrote: October 24th, 2022, 3:26 pm
Jamescm wrote: October 24th, 2022, 10:58 am I was healed, once. One of my small children put my back out somehow, and by nighttime it still felt quite wrong. I pleaded in prayer with the Lord, reasoning that I'm the sole laborer in my family and that I need to be whole to perform that work. I was washed over in a comforting feeling of peace, or an assurance of peace, and the pain ended entirely and immediately.

I've also brought peace of to one of my sons, a toddler, one night when he kept waking up screaming in pain. During one of his fits, I blessed him and told him to be well, and that last fit stopped as he slept peacefully the rest of the night. No apparent problems the next day.

That said, I've also been hurt without being healed and my children have had screaming fits and severe pain without being healed. The lack of consistency is a concern. I can't have faith in the power of the Lord if that power is a roll of the dice, regardless of my own efforts to carry His spirit in my person and conduct.
No, the power of the Lord is not a roll of the dice. The Lord will heal us every time if he wants to. But, this is the mortality in which we come to be tested. We will be tested in all things to see if we will obey him, love him, continue to be faithful and endure to the end throughout our life!
I don't follow, yet. I understand mortality being a trial, in that vein it would be just as well to me if healing never occurred. I could say "that's just mortality, after all". The fact that it occurs sometimes almost makes it harder than if it never did; how does one know the mind of God sufficient to understand when, even if not why, something is to be done in a particular time or circumstance? "Honestly seeking the Lord's mind while serving others and struggling to root sin out of my life" hasn't quite cut it after decades.

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I had a bishop once that really chewed out the priesthood in the ward. After a brother gave a very generic blessing and asked for the Father's blessing to be on the head of the sick individual for whom it was being performed, the Bishop then stepped in and berated those present. He stated and emphasized that as holders of the Priesthood we had been commanded to bless and that we should not hold back. I thought about this as I had given a few blessings where I saw immediate healing, or at least shortly thereafter, and some where nothing has happened at all. It changed my mind about how I word blessings. Coming from a broken and part member home growing up I realized I had simply copied what others were saying when they gave blessings. Now I command that they be healed in the name of Christ, by the authority of the Priesthood and by their faith.

We can also hear hearts and minds as well as bodies. While serving as an EQ President one night my councilor and I prayed where we should go after our scheduled appointment fell through. I immediately thought of a brother that entered into a relationship with a sister in our ward. She had gone through a nasty divorce, he had violated some of his covenants, but he new the church to be true and was struggling with how to overcome his weaknesses to make this new family work. My companion was tepid about entering the home, but I knew exactly what we needed to do upon arriving. The brother asked for a blessing in a very broken hearted voice. His new wife and her children from the previous marriage left the room. I gave him one of the more powerfull personal blessings I have experienced. While it did not solve all of their problems- there are others involved and they each have their agency I knew upon leaving that he had been shown the path through his trial. About two years later this brother stood up in sacrament meeting and mentioned my impromptu visit to his home, he said it was an answer to his prayers. He proceeded to mention that the blessing saved his marriage and brought their family back together on a day that they were contemplating calling it quits. They are still together and I have continued to have a part in working with some of their sons.

I had an interesting experience with my mother as well. She had been diagnosed with an advanced stage of cancer. A growth the size of a softball was in her chest. It was affecting her ability to breath and speak. The Dr.s were planning on cracking open her chest to remove it and had just identified an additional growth behind the first one. While visiting, she asked me for a blessing. I knew she had already received one from my younger brother, but I did not feel that I should mention to her that his blessing was still in force. I was not there when he gave the first blessing. My brother in law, younger brother, and myself proceeded to lay our hands on her head and I told her in effect that the cancer would not be a burden and that the recovery process would not take long. I closed it commanding her to be healed. My wife and I left town the next day making the long drive home across a couple of states. A few weeks later I called my mom to ask how the surgery went. She was gushing with joy. The Dr in charge had made the last minute decision to take an extra x-ray prior to opening her chest. The cancer that she had been fighting for over a year was now smaller than a golf ball. The 2nd growth was also much smaller and was able to removed without damaging any critical tissue.
The surgeons were able to go down at an angle between her shoulder blades in a small quarter size hole to remove both growths. They never had to open her chest. By the time I called her she was already up and walking around and was at full recovery. The Dr.s called it a miracle that a growth seen on multiple Xrays over an extended period of time simply shrunk overnight. All the credit goes to God. We are just the tools in his hands. My mom is now serving a mission, I guess she had more work here on earth to do.

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Astounding is right! 😲

For those who find it difficult to read a block of text, here is the incredible story in an easier to read format:
farmerchick wrote: November 30th, 2022, 12:29 am SOOO I have one. My mom who has been deceased now for a while, had several strokes. The first stroke that she had in her early 70's left her dizzy at times and she really didn't know when it happened or that it happened. She just thought she was old and dizzy sometimes as it didn't really bother her to much. This went on for several years before the second stroke.

The second stroke occurred the day after my older sibling was finally sealed in the temple to his like fourth wife...not sure could be third....anyway suffice it to say this sibling who was in his fifties had caused much strife in our family over the years.

The day after the sealing, my dad who still works and is almost 90, got up at 7.30 am and left with my mom still in bed. At noon when he returned home, my mom was found on the floor in the bathroom cold and barely able to speak. I mean like barely able to slur the word yes. The stroke had apparently happened around 5 or 6 am and it was now noon.

My dad rushed my mom to the hospital. When he got to the ER, the doctor took a look at my mom and tested her responses. When I got to the hospital I was told she was in very bad shape and she couldn't move her left side. She was drooling uncontrollably cause she couldn't move her mouth muscles. I went into see her and the doctor told me it was too late to do any treatment as it had to be done much sooner after the stroke began.

I asked when she could go home not quite understanding that her condition could be permanent. The doctor said "well she probably isn't going to go home without alot of care". The doctor said she would be put in a rehab where they would try to get as much movement as possible back into her left side and hopefully she would be able to mitigate the drooling a little. The doctor also said she would have to be taught to eat...to walk...and to do all the basic stuff, because after a stroke of this magnitude her brain was damaged and in the best case scenario it would be a good three months of recovery before she would be able to do basic things again. Sometimes stroke victims as old as she was when it happened, never get alot better. Memory loss was also a common problem with stroke victims and she may not have good short term memory ever again. I was like in shock.

After a bit I went out into the waiting room and talked with my dad. We agreed that he should give my mom a blessing as this was looking very bad for my mom. My sibling was there who had just been sealed in the temple and they proceeded to go into the hospital room to give the blessing. Only two people could be in the room at one time. I stopped them and said I didn't want that sibling to help with the blessing. I don't know why but I had a strong feeling that my sibling should not do it. I was adamant and upset, so my dad called the bishop who lived down the street. The bishop came and helped my dad administer to my mom. My dad who would have usually been the voice was constrained and the bishop gave the actual blessing.

My mom was unable to lift her head, her left leg or left arm, she couldn't talk understandably or swallow appropriately, at the time of the blessing. It was almost 2 pm when the blessing was administered. The bishops blessing was short and sweet. He said in the blessing that my mom would recover enough to do her work that was left for her to do here on the earth. He also blessed her that her healing would be rapid and astounding.

Everyone then left but me. I stayed with my mom as they moved her from the ER to a bed and then the plan was to move her to rehab after she was stablizied for 24 hours. At first, I had to wipe the drool from her as she couldn't swallow at all. About an hour went by and the drooling seemed to get a little better. Another hour went by and the nurse came into the room to assist my mom with a bed pan. My mom refused and said she wanted to go to the bathroom. The nurse told her she had to use the bed pan and told me privately that she couldn't walk in her condition as she may injure herself trying to. I said ok, then the nurse left. My mom asked me to help her to the bathroom which I reluctantly did She got up with my help. The drooling was stopped and she was able to swallow. She used the bathroom and kinda was dragging her leg and her arm wasn't working real good, but she made it.

By 8 pm she was talking and trying to move her left side and it was working. She was able to make a fist and raise her arm and leg. By 10 am the next day my mom walked to the car in the hospital parking lot and went home. The doctors were hesitant to allow her to leave but she got up on her own and walked. Her vitals were good and she was no longer drooling, had eaten and was drinking well. The doctors were astounded and said they just didn't think that kind of a recovery was possible. She was able to do her housework and church work until she died a few years later of leukemia. But the dizziness never did go away.

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Silver Pie wrote: November 30th, 2022, 5:57 pm Astounding is right! 😲

For those who find it difficult to read a block of text, here is the incredible story in an easier to read format:
farmerchick wrote: November 30th, 2022, 12:29 am SOOO I have one. My mom who has been deceased now for a while, had several strokes. The first stroke that she had in her early 70's left her dizzy at times and she really didn't know when it happened or that it happened. She just thought she was old and dizzy sometimes as it didn't really bother her to much. This went on for several years before the second stroke.

The second stroke occurred the day after my older sibling was finally sealed in the temple to his like fourth wife...not sure could be third....anyway suffice it to say this sibling who was in his fifties had caused much strife in our family over the years.

The day after the sealing, my dad who still works and is almost 90, got up at 7.30 am and left with my mom still in bed. At noon when he returned home, my mom was found on the floor in the bathroom cold and barely able to speak. I mean like barely able to slur the word yes. The stroke had apparently happened around 5 or 6 am and it was now noon.

My dad rushed my mom to the hospital. When he got to the ER, the doctor took a look at my mom and tested her responses. When I got to the hospital I was told she was in very bad shape and she couldn't move her left side. She was drooling uncontrollably cause she couldn't move her mouth muscles. I went into see her and the doctor told me it was too late to do any treatment as it had to be done much sooner after the stroke began.

I asked when she could go home not quite understanding that her condition could be permanent. The doctor said "well she probably isn't going to go home without alot of care". The doctor said she would be put in a rehab where they would try to get as much movement as possible back into her left side and hopefully she would be able to mitigate the drooling a little. The doctor also said she would have to be taught to eat...to walk...and to do all the basic stuff, because after a stroke of this magnitude her brain was damaged and in the best case scenario it would be a good three months of recovery before she would be able to do basic things again. Sometimes stroke victims as old as she was when it happened, never get alot better. Memory loss was also a common problem with stroke victims and she may not have good short term memory ever again. I was like in shock.

After a bit I went out into the waiting room and talked with my dad. We agreed that he should give my mom a blessing as this was looking very bad for my mom. My sibling was there who had just been sealed in the temple and they proceeded to go into the hospital room to give the blessing. Only two people could be in the room at one time. I stopped them and said I didn't want that sibling to help with the blessing. I don't know why but I had a strong feeling that my sibling should not do it. I was adamant and upset, so my dad called the bishop who lived down the street. The bishop came and helped my dad administer to my mom. My dad who would have usually been the voice was constrained and the bishop gave the actual blessing.

My mom was unable to lift her head, her left leg or left arm, she couldn't talk understandably or swallow appropriately, at the time of the blessing. It was almost 2 pm when the blessing was administered. The bishops blessing was short and sweet. He said in the blessing that my mom would recover enough to do her work that was left for her to do here on the earth. He also blessed her that her healing would be rapid and astounding.

Everyone then left but me. I stayed with my mom as they moved her from the ER to a bed and then the plan was to move her to rehab after she was stablizied for 24 hours. At first, I had to wipe the drool from her as she couldn't swallow at all. About an hour went by and the drooling seemed to get a little better. Another hour went by and the nurse came into the room to assist my mom with a bed pan. My mom refused and said she wanted to go to the bathroom. The nurse told her she had to use the bed pan and told me privately that she couldn't walk in her condition as she may injure herself trying to. I said ok, then the nurse left. My mom asked me to help her to the bathroom which I reluctantly did She got up with my help. The drooling was stopped and she was able to swallow. She used the bathroom and kinda was dragging her leg and her arm wasn't working real good, but she made it.

By 8 pm she was talking and trying to move her left side and it was working. She was able to make a fist and raise her arm and leg. By 10 am the next day my mom walked to the car in the hospital parking lot and went home. The doctors were hesitant to allow her to leave but she got up on her own and walked. Her vitals were good and she was no longer drooling, had eaten and was drinking well. The doctors were astounded and said they just didn't think that kind of a recovery was possible. She was able to do her housework and church work until she died a few years later of leukemia. But the dizziness never did go away.
I am sorry you feel that you need to decipher my posts..I'll stop posting...i shouldn't have posted this anyway...

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farmerchick wrote: November 30th, 2022, 11:49 pm I am sorry you feel that you need to decipher my posts..I'll stop posting...i shouldn't have posted this anyway...
It isn't that at all!
It's just that it was such an awesome, faith-promoting story, yet I find large blocks of text difficult to read, and I don't think I'm the only one. I wanted people to read it who might have passed it by because it was a large block of text.

I totally apologize. I was not wanting you to feel bad.

I'll stop doing that to your posts, okay? Friends?

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Vision wrote: October 22nd, 2022, 7:15 pm I want to hear any stories that you may have of people being miraculously healed? First person, or direct knowledge only please.
Every few years, someone creates a topic asking where are the miracles. This is the third or fourth, maybe fifth topic thread since I've been here over ten years asking about this. I shared some of my experiences back then and I'll share them here. Years ago, I was asked by a coworker who couldn't have children for a blessing. She had been through many doctor's visits, surgeries, etc. After fasting and praying to the Lord and after laying my hands on her head, rebuking her affliction, she was healed. Today, she is a happy Mom of two or three beautiful little children.

My dear wife struggled with degenerative disk disease for a long time. After many doctor's visits, x-rays, shots and just short of surgery, having to quit work and becoming bed ridden for months on end and unable to walk without excruciating pain, I felt approved by the Lord to heal her. My wife's faith wavered, but I told her that mine was sufficient to heal her. I laid my hands on her head and rebuked her affliction and commanded that her vertebrae, disks and nerves be made whole again. Beforehand, she could barely get out of bed without experiencing severe pain. That same weekend, she wore high heels to church and helped me shovel snow after church. It was by faith alone in the Lord Jesus Christ that she was healed.

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The power of prayer -

I have personally seen people healed and even one who was brought back from death a couple times. Seeing someone die and I mean die is quite sobering even if it is momentary. Concerned about doxxing myself or I would elaborate.

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marc wrote: December 2nd, 2022, 7:06 pm
Vision wrote: October 22nd, 2022, 7:15 pm I want to hear any stories that you may have of people being miraculously healed? First person, or direct knowledge only please.
Every few years, someone creates a topic asking where are the miracles. This is the third or fourth, maybe fifth topic thread since I've been here over ten years asking about this. I shared some of my experiences back then and I'll share them here. Years ago, I was asked by a coworker who couldn't have children for a blessing. She had been through many doctor's visits, surgeries, etc. After fasting and praying to the Lord and after laying my hands on her head, rebuking her affliction, she was healed. Today, she is a happy Mom of two or three beautiful little children.

My dear wife struggled with degenerative disk disease for a long time. After many doctor's visits, x-rays, shots and just short of surgery, having to quit work and becoming bed ridden for months on end and unable to walk without excruciating pain, I felt approved by the Lord to heal her. My wife's faith wavered, but I told her that mine was sufficient to heal her. I laid my hands on her head and rebuked her affliction and commanded that her vertebrae, disks and nerves be made whole again. Beforehand, she could barely get out of bed without experiencing severe pain. That same weekend, she wore high heels to church and helped me shovel snow after church. It was by faith alone in the Lord Jesus Christ that she was healed.
Marc,

Thank you for sharing your experiences.

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I am not sure if this is really what you are looking for, but when I was pregnant with my son I planned a home birth. When the day came, it was 4:00am when I began contractions. I had been awake since 12:00pm the day before as we had just come off of a night shift. My contractions were anywhere from one and a half to three minutes apart for the entire day and caused me pain to the point where I could not relax or sleep.

My doula was able to give me relief for about 20/30 minutes before my water broke by having me lie a certain way, but I was not able to sleep still. By the time my water broke at about 6:00pm, I was absolutely exhausted and since my water was broken, my contractions were even more intense and close together than before. Even being in the birth pool, I was still having intense pain.

I was so exhausted at this point that pushing was very difficult, and it got to a point where my midwife was concerned and was beginning to think of transferring me. I had/have intense anxiety about doctors/hospitals, I don’t trust that them to do much of anything, I’ll really only go if I’m dying. I especially did not want them injecting me or my baby with God knows what.

Anyhow, my exhaustion was to the point where I was frozen in the position I had been laboring in. My left thigh was having immensely horrible cramps that actually hurt more than the contractions somehow, but I was so tired that I could not even find the energy to move my legs to find relief from the cramps. I wanted more than anything to ask my husband for a blessing as I had grown up with being able to receive blessings from my dad, grandfathers, etc. My husband is not a member though, and though the missionaries had randomly shown up, my mother in law had turned them away as she thought it was a bad time for them to visit. I was hardly ever attending church at the time due to my work schedule and I also live about 30 minutes from where the missionaries are, and they had not been to my house after they asked my husband to get baptized after three lessons even when I had told them not to, so needless to say they had not been invited back in a long time. When I found out they had been at my house, I just about cried of frustration that they had been turned away, but I did not even have the energy for that.

My midwife asked if I could move to another position and I told her I couldn’t. “Can’t, or won’t?” She replied. I knew that she was not going to let this go on much longer, so after I told her I couldn’t, I prayed in my mind for strength enough to get through the labor, and that I would not have to go to the hospital. I know it’s not a “blessing” as we normally think, but almost immediately I had great strength and in a few mere minutes after I had prayed, he was born. My midwife was amazed at my “superwoman” pushes that I was able to do at the end, as she had started getting ready for me to be transferred to a hospital because she was sure I was going to need assistance. By the time I had him, I had been awake for 34 hours.

It may not be raising the dead, but it may as well have been with how utterly exhausted I was, and then how full of strength I felt. A few pictures were taken of me a few moments after I gave birth, and they are always a reminder to me of that instance where I had a prayer so instantly and perfectly answered. As soon as he came out, I was weary again, but my labor was done and that’s all I had needed. :)

Sorry for such a long story. In case you’re wondering, yes, I am always this long-winded. That’s just me, I’m known for it enough to where the bishop has yet to ask me to give a talk. Don’t be hatin’.

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Having had children, I can definitely say this fits the criteria of a healing miracle.
ChronicallyOnline wrote: December 6th, 2022, 11:03 pm I am not sure if this is really what you are looking for, but when I was pregnant with my son I planned a home birth. When the day came, it was 4:00am when I began contractions. I had been awake since 12:00pm the day before as we had just come off of a night shift. My contractions were anywhere from one and a half to three minutes apart for the entire day and caused me pain to the point where I could not relax or sleep.

My doula was able to give me relief for about 20/30 minutes before my water broke by having me lie a certain way, but I was not able to sleep still. By the time my water broke at about 6:00pm, I was absolutely exhausted and since my water was broken, my contractions were even more intense and close together than before. Even being in the birth pool, I was still having intense pain.

I was so exhausted at this point that pushing was very difficult, and it got to a point where my midwife was concerned and was beginning to think of transferring me. I had/have intense anxiety about doctors/hospitals, I don’t trust that them to do much of anything, I’ll really only go if I’m dying. I especially did not want them injecting me or my baby with God knows what.

Anyhow, my exhaustion was to the point where I was frozen in the position I had been laboring in. My left thigh was having immensely horrible cramps that actually hurt more than the contractions somehow, but I was so tired that I could not even find the energy to move my legs to find relief from the cramps. I wanted more than anything to ask my husband for a blessing as I had grown up with being able to receive blessings from my dad, grandfathers, etc. My husband is not a member though, and though the missionaries had randomly shown up, my mother in law had turned them away as she thought it was a bad time for them to visit. I was hardly ever attending church at the time due to my work schedule and I also live about 30 minutes from where the missionaries are, and they had not been to my house after they asked my husband to get baptized after three lessons even when I had told them not to, so needless to say they had not been invited back in a long time. When I found out they had been at my house, I just about cried of frustration that they had been turned away, but I did not even have the energy for that.

My midwife asked if I could move to another position and I told her I couldn’t. “Can’t, or won’t?” She replied. I knew that she was not going to let this go on much longer, so after I told her I couldn’t, I prayed in my mind for strength enough to get through the labor, and that I would not have to go to the hospital. I know it’s not a “blessing” as we normally think, but almost immediately I had great strength and in a few mere minutes after I had prayed, he was born. My midwife was amazed at my “superwoman” pushes that I was able to do at the end, as she had started getting ready for me to be transferred to a hospital because she was sure I was going to need assistance. By the time I had him, I had been awake for 34 hours.

It may not be raising the dead, but it may as well have been with how utterly exhausted I was, and then how full of strength I felt. A few pictures were taken of me a few moments after I gave birth, and they are always a reminder to me of that instance where I had a prayer so instantly and perfectly answered. As soon as he came out, I was weary again, but my labor was done and that’s all I had needed. :)

Sorry for such a long story. In case you’re wondering, yes, I am always this long-winded. That’s just me, I’m known for it enough to where the bishop has yet to ask me to give a talk. Don’t be hatin’.

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