Nauvoo Miracle

Vibeke and Anne Hansen....A special experience with these two!

Vibeke  (the mom), had just been baptized in Denmark before coming to Nauvoo to visit a friend who read the Book of Mormon with her on Skype.  That friend was Susan Stanton from Nauvoo First Ward.  Vibeke is a special lady with a burning testimony.  Her daughter, Anne had not been baptized and was hesitant to go to church with her mom and Susan, so they came to Old Nauvoo, the Blacksmith shop, while Elder Ririe and I were serving there on a Sunday afternoon.  I felt an immediate connection with them and told them all about the wheelwright, then Elder Ririe came in to take them to the Blacksmith shop and when he walked in, they gasped!  they thought he looked like he came from Scandinavia for sure!  (He does kind of look like that)  When I introduced them, I mentioned that Vibeke had just been baptized, but not Anne, and he shook her hand and said "but she will be soon!"   Wow, that was pretty bold...but I think there was a great spirit there.  Anne has an amazing story.  

She had just had surgery on her back for scoliosis...they put hardware in to straighten her back and she had grown 4 inches in 7 hours!  They gave her the clearance to travel from Denmark, but by the time she got here, she had Staph infection. She had to go to Iowa City to the Dr..  She had a blessing before she went and in the blessing the elder commanded all the foreign matter to leave her body, we were thinking that was the infection, ..but the Dr's determined they needed  to have all the hardware taken out and replaced, and it cleaned out!  Major surgery.  (When she woke up from the surgery, the first thing she told her mom was that she wanted to go back to the Blacksmith shop)..she is really a trooper....but that's not all...she was given medication with the wrong label and she was unknowlingly taking blood thinners as pain medication..Oh NO!  She became very weak and really almost died...she spent a few days in the hospital, and came home with IV antibiotics for a couple weeks and is now back in Denmark, doing well and going to school!  So happy for the miracle and the health that was given her...I will always remember her and pray she will eventually remember the feeling she had in the Blacksmith's shop, and come unto Christ!  Vibeke and I still communicate and will see each other this Christmas...She is coming back!  Yay!