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rdwhitaker
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Registered: December 2012
Location: Vancouver, Washington
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On my mission, an Elder told me about the 4 year son in an investigator family they were teaching. One evening the family called the missionaries and told them their son was acting very strange and asked them to come over. The missionaries immediately felt the presence of an evil spirit that had taken possession of the boy. The boy was ranting and screaming, then swooning into a stupor for awhile, then acting up again. The Elders explained to the parents what a priesthood blessing was and then started to get ready to do it.
As soon as the one Elder pulled out his anointing oil, the boy started laughing at him, and said the oil would not do any good - it was useless. The Elder continued to get the oil ready, and the boy started yelling at him to put it away. As he began to drop oil on the boy's head, the boy started begging and crying, asking him to please stop it. When the oil touched his head, he started writhing and screaming and said "Its burning me! Stop it!" The Elders were pretty rattled by this opposition but were more determined than ever to go forward with it. They were able to hold the boy down long enough to give a blessing and command the evil spirit to leave.
The boy quieted down after that, and the Elders thought they were done. After a few minutes, the boy started laughing at them and told them, "See? I told you couldn't do anything! You're powerless!" This got the Elders upset and so they were really determined to cast out the evil spirit once and for all. They repeated the blessing with the same response and reactions as before. Once again, the boy quieted down, but the evil spirit soon returned and mocked the missionaries.
Feeling truly nervous about the failure of their priesthood power to cast out this persistent spirit, they called their mission president and explained the situation. He thought for a moment and directed the Elders to open a door or a window, and to cast the evil spirit out of not only the boy, but out of the house.
So they repeated the scene pretty much as before, with the boy mocking and complaining what they were doing. This time, however, they opened the front door. When they cast out the evil spirit, the Elders said there was might rush of wind that swooped out of the room and out the open door, which slammed shut by itself after the spirit left. The boy started crying as any child would when upset, and soon afterwards he fell soundly asleep.
I was not there to witness this, but I heard it from one of the Elders who participated in that experience.
rdw
Don't . . . Quit . . . Trying!!
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