Elder Christian Fyffe

02/10/2014 

            So this week’s email is very different; I have a story to tell, and I leave it up to you if you shall post it or not. It was a huge testimony builder for me though. Alright, so this past Friday we found out that the father of someone that I baptized had passed away, so we went to the funeral. The service was at a Protestant church because the father was Protestant. Anyway, it was a beautiful service; something I like about that church is that their songs are really up beat and happy with all sorts of instruments. Not too reverent, but I felt the love anyway haha. The service was almost over when our Ward Missionary Leader received a phone call that we had to go give a blessing, and that it was urgent. It was about 8 at night and I asked him what the problem was, but he told me he didn’t know, all he knew was that it was urgent. We quickly left the funeral service and drove to the members house.

            The rain was pouring hard, so when we arrived, the member came down with an umbrella and escorted us up. I approached the doorway and started to take my shoes off and right when I stepped foot in the house, I heard a loud noise ahead of me, so I lifted my head and saw three adult males holding a girl down in her chair, as if she was trying with all of her might to get away. A lot of things went through my head at that moment, but I realized what was happened when the girl’s eyes met with mine. At that instant, a shot of what felt like pure evil shot through my whole body, and I felt completely alone in the dark thick air of the house. 'She" just stared at me, which frankly scared me. I’ve never felt that kind of feeling before when she looked at me, it wasn’t hate, or sadness, but pure evil. Then I realized what kind of blessing we were going to do... Cast out an evil spirit. Right when I realized this, I said a prayer to my Heavenly Father asking for the strength and Faith that I needed in order to do this thing that I have only thought existed in movies. I don’t know if we can call it an exorcism but it was just like the movies. It took three grown men to keep her down, because whatever was in her knew that the Priesthood was now there to take care of the problem.

            Every now and then she would calm down so the men would let go of her but right when they did that, she would run at us with the intent to hurt us or something. She would not take her eyes off me. That image is burnt into my mind now, and it freaks me out when I think of it. As we talked together on how the blessing should happen, she calmed down and we were able to approach her and start the blessing. We laid our hands on her head and started to state by what authority we were there with. Right when we started saying "Priesthood" she started violently shaking under our hands; so violently that we weren’t really able to keep our hands on her head.

            I started to feel something move up my arm, something cold that chilled my bones. Then when we commanded in the name of Jesus Christ that it leave this body and no sooner had we said this she then collapsed as if lifeless in her chair, and the air thinned out. We finished the blessing and lifted her up and placed her on a nearby bed where she was out cold. Right after the blessing, the strongest feeling of joy entered into my heart, and I was moved to give every single person a huge hug. I shut my eyes afterwards and gave a prayer of thanks, for being able to be shown right before my eyes, the power of the Priesthood. I thanked God for giving me proof in an experience that I cannot deny; something that I have always wanted, yet have never asked for.

            Five minutes after the girl woke up she looked at all of us with a confused look and asked if she was dreaming. She asked why we were there and all we said to her was that we were there to give her a blessing. Then she looked to her sister and said that her head hurt haha. I can say that it was definitely one of the coolest experiences that I have ever had on my mission, something that set my testimony of the power of god in stone. God lives, His son Jesus Christ really is the Master of all. And Satan can do absolutely nothing about it; I love that. He really has no control when it comes to the power and justice of God.

            After our blessing, we blessed the house and invited the whole family to church. They were all there Sunday, and I was extremely happy to see them all, and have scheduled lessons with them every Saturday. I will never forget what happened Last Friday; I saw the power of God. And with that power, I cast out a demon!! I love you all and ask that you all stay alive this upcoming week; I kind of need you guys. haha!

 

Elder Fyffe