So this week was awesome! I just want to start out by saying how much I love being on a mission! Anyway, only two exciting things happened this week, my bike tire popped and I gave 2 blessings.
So we usually ride about 15-20 miles a day on our bikes and we were asked to go to the hospital and give a blessing. So about 3 miles into the 7 mile ride my tire blew out and so I did the smart thing and rode it for another 2 miles... and then the whole bike just seized up, so I walked it the rest of the way there. It turns out that the lady we were going to go see was released about 2 hours before we even got there, but we met another lady in the lobby who had us give her mom a blessing. So that was sick.
Then there was the other blessing. We were teaching a lesson to these 4 kids who were newly adopted so that they can go get sealed to their family, and I get a call from the Sisters and they are freaking out. They said it's an emergency and we needed to go right now and meet them at an assisted living home. So we did and we walk into the room and there is a sister in our ward who is dying. I will spare you the details, but she and the nurses knew it was a matter of minutes before she would be leaving and she wanted a blessing. So we asked her what kind and she said I want a blessing of healing. So seeing that she had faith, and being moved by the spirit, my companion anointed her and I sealed the blessing and was inspired to say many things that I cannot remember, but she was grateful after and within 10 mins she was fine. Now, I am no doctor and I am no expert, but it is not too often that people just "stop dying" because of will power. I am also convinced that the placebo effect has no sway on the bands of death, but I do know; the Priesthood Authority of God can raise the dead. It can calm the seas and surely it can calm a troubled heart and can save a daughter of God in need.
Brothers and Sisters I am a witness of the reality of the Priesthood. I testify that it has been restored to the earth and that when it is used in line with the will of God, that Miracles can happen. But this was nothing miraculous, it is exactly predictably what is supposed to happen. We read that with faith the size of a mustard seed, we can move mountains. Then what can stop the power and authority of God himself. I know that those sacred keys were restored through the prophet of the restoration, who is Joseph Smith. I wish I could take you all there to that moment in that small shared room where Sister Caroline Brown was as the Savior says about Lazarus (john 11:4)"... sick, not unto death...but for the glory of God..."
God is truly glorious and I am blessed to be here on my mission. I have done nothing special, but Sister Brown has let me help her to Glorify God, and for that I am so grateful.
I love you all.
-Elder Noah Stolper
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