did we know anyone who believed as we did.

We commenced preaching at once and our first convert was a lady who was
saved in our home. (Sister Hendricks, now Myhre, who is a minister). Our
first case of healing was when the Lord healed me of blood poisoning in my
left arm, caused from the scratch of a rusty nail. I caught cold in it and
it swelled so fast that when I got into the house I could not get my
clothes off and they had to be cut off with scissors. My wife and a young
brother prayed for me, but I did not get immediate relief. My entire arm
turned blue and yellow and soon my sides began to turn the same way. I had
read in the Bible that the sick were to be anointed with oil. The young
brother anointed me accordingly, and the swelling began to go down
immediately, insomuch that the next morning there was no symptom of any
thing wrong whatever.

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The next experience of healing was of the restoring of my hearing to my
right ear. My wife had gone to services and I stayed home to take care of
the children. I had laid down beside them to get them to sleep and had
dropped off to sleep myself, and dreamed that I saw Jesus standing beside
the bed. He said to me, "Do you know John Pederson?" "Yes," I replied, "he
is my neighbor." And Jesus said, "Isn't he a blacksmith and does he not
make sleighs? And," he continued, "if he were to make one for you and you
were to break it, wouldn't he fix it for you?" "Why, certainly," I replied.
"Well," Jesus continued, "I made your ear in the first place and don't you
think I can fix it?" "Yes," I said. Then He stepped up to me and touched my
ear with two fingers and I jumped out of bed and MY HEARING WAS PERFECT! I
shouted glory to God.