<TITLE>17. Par 117-131</TITLE>L-117   I come on down, on the New Mexico line. Billy and I, my son, we went into a little place there to get some... the morning we left, and I said, "Sure a pretty day."
"Yes, it is!"
I said, "Look like it been pretty dry."
"Yes, it has been!"
I said, "Are you from here?"

L-118 Said, "No, I'm from Wisconsin," or somewhere. Said, "I been out here about twenty years, so I guess you could call it home."

L-119 I said, "You're a native then, I guess." So I said, "Yes, sir," I said, "looks like it's been awful dusty."

L-120 Said, "You know, the strangest thing happened!" Said, "We had a forecast that we was going to get a blizzard, a lot of snow; and it actually started, and then quit!"

L-121 I said, "You don't say so," and so calm.

L-122 And I come home. And Brother Tom said that he was told not to go that way, a blizzard was through. And he come right through the country, without even a sprinkle of rain or anything! He is still God, see, just as much as He ever was. See?

L-123   Walking up there, I was going along... Now, this part, I hope my wife don't get this tape. See? But I'm going to tell you something. And, now, I--I don't tell you... I'll just tell you the Truth, see, and that's the only way to do it. I've often wondered why she didn't complain about me going on those trips on our anniversary. You know what I had made up in my mind? I said, "There is so many people around the house. And then I'm always, you know, I am nervous. And everything I talk, I want to talk about, is God, the Bible, or something. Maybe she just thinks it's a little rest for her. She get me away for a few days, to go hunting." I, half thinking of that, going along there.

L-124   That, I'm... I, I'll apologize to her, and I'm--I'm asked God to forgive me for such thoughts. Cause, I was going along there, I thought, "Well, she thinks... Well, my goodness! She, she is a worker, you know, and--and all the time when she's out in the kitchen or somewhere out in the..."

L-125 And any of you knows her, that washing machine is going all the time. And so I'd go out, I'd pull her; I said, "Don't be washing like that. Talk to me. See, I love you. I want you to tell me something; tell me you do, too."

L-126 She said, "Well, you know I do," then right on washing just as hard as she ever was.

L-127 "I don't want you to do that. I want you to come in here and set down by me."

L-128 "Oh, Bill, I got so much work to do!"

L-129 And I thought, "Well, see, going up here, she gets time to do her work." Going along there, thinking that.
Now, remember, I laid this Bible up here so you'd see that I'm before the Word.
As I was walking along, something happened to me. I started...

L-130   First, I was thinking about when I taken her on the honeymoon up there. She was a pretty, little, black-headed, brown-eyed girl, and I was lifting her over these logs, you know, and everything, and trying to get her up there, this place where I had killed some bear. And I wanted to show her one, and so... where I got these bear. And she had on my cowboy boots. And that's about twenty-two years, or twenty-one years before that; twenty-two years, I believe it was, ago. We were married on 1941. And I was picking her up, you know, over these logs.

L-131 And I thought, "Now, poor little fellow, putting up with me, she's done turned gray." Yeah. I thought, "Well," and I went... [Brother Branham clears his throat--Ed.] And I hadn't shaved for a few days, and I found out I was gray, too! And I seen my beard sticking out of here, gray, and I thought, "Old boy, you're just about finished now. See, you, you're going to do anything, you better hurry up. You're getting old, too." See?


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