<TITLE>04. Par 13-16</TITLE>L-13 Well, here she come, and I noticed her. Now, it's--it's pitiful the way she... She had two broom sticks, cut off, and a hole bored up through a little piece of 2-by-4 to make the cross part of the crutch, with rags wrapped around it. And when she come out, she could only set those crutches like this, then: arthritis. See? She couldn't move her legs like that. Then she set these crutches out, and she'd...
I just stood still, let her come. And she got right up to me, and she looked up. Poor old thing was shaking with palsy, the great big deep creases in her cheeks. When she looked up, her graying hair (leather wrapped in it, as it hung down her back), the tears was making their way down through them wrinkles. I thought, "Somebody's mother." I stood there.
And when she looked at me like that, I never said a word to her. She just kinda smiled. She reached over and got one of those crutches, and put it with the other crutch, handed them up to me, and went walking off there just as good as anybody. See?...?... See? I said, "How did..." Asked her how did she come to have that faith?
She said, "If Him make cross-eyes straight, Him make legs straight." That was good enough for her.

L-14 Just simple faith, that's all it takes. When you try to figure it out... You can't figure out God. You got to believe God. See? You don't--you don't... Don't take an education, that gets us away from God. The more we know in education, the further we go from God. That's the biggest hindrance the Gospel's had, is educating. Then they get to think they know more than God. But if you make yourself simple, and just believe Him, that's all it takes.

L-15 One more little thing before closing my testimony. I prayed all night long. It was coming along about three or four o'clock in the morning. I couldn't stand no more. And I had to stop the discernment after five or six. I was just laying hands on them. And I begin to notice coming across...
Now, the--the river runs right down through the reservation. And that's the Salt River, coming down through the reservation, and it gets pretty deep along in places. And I noticed the Indians coming in was wet way up around their waist. So I said, "What's the matter?" to the interpreter.
And she said, "They thought you were false to begin with." Said, "But they know it's truth now, and they're packing their loved ones. The ford's about fifteen miles down here. But they're walking right on across this a way with their loved ones, packing them in through the night," just to be there one night.

L-16 Next in line coming in, coming up over the platform, was an old man. They'd made a stretcher to pack him on. They had took a board about this wide, and they'd put a stick across it this way, and a stick this a way. And then they'd took the old man and laid him up on there. And one leg hung over one end of the stick, and then his arms like that. There was two great big, fine-looking, young men packing him, just standing there, and their lips blue, shivering. It's cold on the desert. It gets real cold early in the morning like that. They were shivering, waiting. I seen them come up in the line.
I kept praying for the people, just laying hands on them, praying as they come by. So this fellow stood up there. He was shivering, holding like that the old man. I said, "You're wet." Said... Looked at me, and I said. "You speak English?"
And he said, "Little".
And I said, "Aren't you afraid you'll take pneumonia?"
"Nope." Said, "Jesus Christ is take care of me. I brought my dad."
I said, "Who's that on the other end?"
"My brother."


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