<TITLE>13. Par 149-166</TITLE>L-149 I thought, "Well, I was... I guess the brethren are all back in the tent. And the sun is shining everywhere."

L-150 I started walking down the mountain. And the snow all drying up, with that hot sun; steam coming out of my shirt. Just a moment, or two, difference. And I started walking down the mountain. And when I did, I said...
I heard a Voice say, "Why don't you walk with Me?"

L-151 I said, "Lord, the greatest privilege I ever had!" I turned and started back down through the big deer trails, down through that virgin forest.

L-152 And I thought, "Well, I'll walk on down that way to where I always pay my salute to Meda, my wife." And I was going along some, about a half hour, three-quarters, later. Snow was all up and gone.

L-153 And I begin to think, "I wonder why she had never said anything to me about going." I said, "I remember when I first took her up there and lift her over them logs, when we were married." I said, "Now she is gray."

L-154 I went, "Uhm!" The gray beard over my face, black and gray mixed together. I thought, "Bill, you ain't got much longer. You're getting old."

L-155   And I started moving on. And I looked up, looked like I could see her standing before me there, with her arms out, still black-headed.

L-156 I held my head down. I was going up a little place where some quaking asps, and there's a little crook in a... I just leaned my head against the limb, like this. And I was standing there, crying, and I could hear something going, "Pat, pat, pat." And I looked down; it was the water coming from my eyes, through my beard, hitting on them dry leaves; where, about thirty minutes before, there was an inch of snow, and it blizzarding.

L-157   When I come down off the mountain, four days later; not one cloud in the sky, for four days later. I come in, and I said to the filling station man, "Did... been pretty dry?"

L-158 "Yes." Said, "You know, the strangest thing, we was predicted a storm the other day, and, you know, it stopped all at once."

L-159 And then I come on down to the New Mexico line, coming back to Arizona. And I said to Billy, my son, I said, "Let's go in here and just see if it was down this way."

L-160 I stopped in there. It was on a Sunday morning. Got some... And I got some gasoline. And the man said, "Well, been hunting?"
I said, "Yes, sir."
"Any luck?"

L-161 I said, "Yes, sir, we had a fine time." I said, "Looks pretty dry."

L-162 And he said, "Yes, it's been awful dry through here." He said, "We was promised a big snow the other day." And said, "You know, the blizzard actually started, and somehow or another it quit." Oh, my! Oh, my!

L-163   I was standing against the side of this tree. (In closing.) Standing aside of this tree, and the tears dropping from my eyes. I thought, "God!"

L-164 Just think, the same God that said, "Peace, be still," to the waves, and the winds obeyed Him, He is still the same Jesus is right here in the woods with us. He is still the Word. The Word, all nature has to obey His Word, for He is the Creator of nature.
I stood there, and the tears dropping off of my cheeks.

L-165 And for about five years now, I've been off the field, just going to churches and whatever I could. You all know that. And my heart's been burdened. I'd go out here, come to Arizona. And He would tell me things to do, I'd go do it, but look like the revival is over. And I couldn't... wonder what was taking place. In my heart, I'd repent. I'd say, "Lord, if I've done anything, tell me; I'll make it right." Just burdened all the time, just a horrible feeling, and I couldn't have the victory that I wanted.

L-166 Many great things He had done and showed, which you all are witnesses, coming here and telling you about it, seeing the papers pack it, and magazines, and so forth, about the great supernatural things that's been seen and done.


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