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Show 77t him several treatments and the doctor -- Rulon-told him, (j promise you that if you have faith,you will get w e l l . ' He became more relaxed each day and within two weeks he was cured." Aunt Helga's voice was thick, with emotion. "He said he had visited doctors a l l over the west and hadn't been helped. He said that Rulon must have been inspired to heal of him of his awful affliction." We sat almost r e v e r e n t l y , some nodding t h e i r agreement. Accounts of other healings surfaced in my memory. I remembered ^ r a n f a t h e r Harvey's broken legs, healed on the spot by faith. I remembered that my g r e a t - g r e a t grand-uncle had been given a special mission as a healer by the Prophet Joseph Smith. I looked at the curve in my arm that had once been so badly broken, and wondered where my own f a i t h had been. + w i v I glanced at my father, Still, i t had healed - and not badly. 1 gJ-an + HP d i d n ' t seem to be taking his gaze fastened to the carpet. He didn T wondered if it was sometimes any pride in Aunt Helga's words. I wonderea p^nt for such remarkable power to an effort of will to give credit for sucn v, „ o-ift I thought the Lord, or if i t was humbling to have such a gii • of my writing, a poor p a r a l l e l , and thought i t must be some o both. A u n t ^ W of my father's fishing prowess, how as . boy of fifteen while traveling with his family by wagon to „. h +n feed the family Canada, my father had c%ght enough fish A- A- nf r>o"?tatoes and of eleven - the only change in their diet of P & -uu + Rulon is such a bread. "It's fortunate for everyone that R go„d fisherman," Aunt ^ W i n d e d . "And that when ™r iQ of men instead of the a man, he decided to fish.the souls of me + m, " A chuckle stirred the room critters in lakes and streams. A £r!_ ^+v,prq tight lips- and a smile played a*, my fathers tig |