On June 23 Elder Babcock gave a talk in
Sacrament Meeting in the Victoria Branch, the first since his illness. We
didn’t know then that it would be his last talk given as a missionary.
He had several weeks to ponder the assignment and had spent
all day Saturday preparing. He didn't share his preparation with me, but
was confident that he had a well prepared talk that filled the
assignment. Instead of giving that talk, he spoke from the heart and
shared his testimony of how the Holy Ghost had helped the doctors know what
they should do to help him and bore testimony of the love of God for all of his
children.
At first I was confused by his account and had some
question about its accuracy. And then I realized that he was sharing what
he remembered, the third miraculous recovery that occurred during the fourth
week of his time in the hospital.
He didn't remember the pain and the confusion, the coma and
the semi-consciousness of the first weeks of his illness.
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