3 Year Old Healed by a Priesthood Blessing

Facing a Serious Auto-Immune Disease

In 1964, my then 3-year-old son, Mark, had an illness that developed into Nephritis, a serious kidney disease. He was hospitalized and put on what I think was antibiotics. Still, the white blood cell count wouldn't come down. He couldn't understand why he had to stay at the hospital. The doctors were talking about transferring him to Doernbecher's Children's Hospital in Portland, saying he would be there at least six months. I had two other young children at home and it would have been a tremendous hardship on our family to have to travel to Portland every day or two.

A Priesthood Blessing Heals My Son

His father and another man, holding the Melchizedek Priesthood, by laying their hands on his head and anointing his head with a drop of consecrated oil, gave him a Priesthood Blessing. Within a day, his white blood cell count started coming down toward normal. He was discharged from the hospital a week later. He had to take penicillin tablets every day for a long time, perhaps a year, and we were told to keep him in bed for another one to three weeks.

Have you ever tried to keep a lively three-year-old down in bed if he didn't want to be? He was up bouncing on the couch the first day!

A Life of Health and Accomplishments

This young man never had any aftereffects from this illness. He grew up, served a Church mission in Guatemala, married and fathered five children. At age 51, he now is a grandfather of one little boy. He has two Master's degrees, is a C.P.A., and has traveled to Holland, the Ukraine, Okinawa, Costa Rica and other parts of the world. He referees kids' soccer — two or three games, one right after the other, on a normal Saturday. I know that he was completely healed because of that Priesthood Blessing. The Priesthood leaders in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have the power and authority to bless the lives of others.