(Minghui.org) I have three daughters and one son. When my husband was forty-four, he fell ill and could no longer work. After 10 p.m. every night, he had convulsions, his body shook and he was exhausted. During the day, he looked perfectly fine but he couldn’t even walk a quarter of a kilometer. He felt so bad that he wept. My children couldn’t shoulder the burden of supporting the family, and my parents-in-law couldn’t do farm work either.
The work at our small noodle shop fell entirely on my shoulders. Every day, I had to knead about a hundred kilograms of flour using the machine, and I also did most of the farm work. I finished working close to midnight every day, and I was exhausted. I drank alcohol to fall asleep, but I didn’t sleep well. We tried everything to treat my husband’s illness, but nothing worked. We were truly at our wits’ end.
In March 1996, my husband went to the county hospital and had another check-up, but the doctor found nothing wrong. We went to the neurology department, they also found nothing wrong. We happened to know the neurology doctor. I told him about my husband’s situation, “He looks perfectly fine, but he can’t do any work, and at night he has seizures and tremors that are terrifying.”
The doctor said, “The diagnostic tests are normal. Why don’t you try practicing Falun Dafa?” I asked, “Where can we learn?” The doctor said, “My mother-in-law practices it. I heard it’s very effective for improving health, and it’s free.”
We said, “Let’s try it.”
We went to find the doctor’s mother-in-law as he suggested, and we happened to run into an acquaintance who offered to take us there. When we got there, we first watched the videos of Master’s lectures. After we watched for three days, my husband stopped smoking, and his temper became gentler.
After we watched the videos of Master’s nine-lecture series, my husband and I experienced a complete recovery of our health. I stopped drinking alcohol, and my husband regained the strength to work. We discarded the large quantities of medicine we had accumulated.
Falun Dafa shone on our home like warm sunlight. Filled with joy, we told everyone we met about the goodness of Falun Dafa. When she saw our health was restored, my mother-in-law—who had a stroke and suffered from the after effects—began practicing. She gradually stopped taking her medications. She went everywhere and told neighbors, friends, and relatives her amazing story and invited them to come to our home to practice the exercises. Before long, both the elderly and young villagers came to our home to practice.
I purchased a tape recorder, a television set, and a video player (at the time, our family was still quite poor, yet I never hesitated to spend money when it came to telling people about Falun Dafa). I constantly played Master’s lecture videos for people and I showed them how to practice the exercises. People from nearby villages came to our home to learn how to practice Falun Dafa, and our home became a renowned group practice site. My father-in-law, mother-in-law, and children all believed in Dafa as well; whenever they had free time, they also read Falun Dafa’s main book Zhuan Falun.
In July 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched a frenzied persecution of Falun Dafa. I thought, “Falun Dafa is so wonderful; it teaches people to be good. What the CCP is doing is wrong. I must go to Beijing to appeal and tell the national leaders that Falun Dafa is being slandered and unjustly persecuted.” As a result, I was persecuted, thrown into prison, and sentenced to three years. After I served my illegal sentence and returned home, I was too afraid to continue practicing. Other practitioners came to visit me, and my family members also urged me, “Hurry up and start practicing again! If you don’t, you’ll end up with dementia, and if your heart condition flares up, we don’t have the money to pay for your treatment.” I realized they were right. I overcame my fear and resumed studying the Fa and practicing the exercises; our local practice site, hosted at my home, was thus restored.
In July 2024, my husband was taking me to a relative’s home on his bike. Halfway there, we were struck by a car driven by a woman. The bike fell on top of me. The village branch CCP secretary happened to be passing by. He rushed over and asked, “Are you okay?” We lifted the bike off me and I said, “We’re fine!” After dusting ourselves off, we got back on the bike and left. I later noticed that my hand was a bit sore, but the pain quickly subsided. If I didn’t practice Falun Dafa, I certainly would not have been able to simply walk away like that. Given my advanced age, I would have felt compelled to go to a hospital for a check-up. However, because I am a Falun Dafa practitioner I chose not to do so.
On January 29, 2024, I went outside to gather firewood to prepare a meal. I stepped on a patch of ice, and my lower back landed squarely against the sharp edge of the steps. My immediate thought was, “I am a Dafa practitioner; nothing bad will happen to me.” I quickly stood up and felt no pain. However, when I tried to get up the next morning, I found I could not get up; it took several attempts before I was finally able to sit up. I thought, “If I didn’t practice Falun Dafa—and if Master were not protecting me—who knows what state a 75-year-old like me would be in right now.”
I felt that I’d taken quite a nasty fall; I could only sit and I was unable to move about freely. My daughters told me, “You must not view yourself as a sick person; you are a cultivator.” So, I began to study the Fa. I was unable to do the exercises for the first two days. By the third day I did the first and fifth exercises. I was gradually able to do all five sets of exercises again. After six or seven days, I was back to my normal routine—I lit the fire and cooked meals. I did not go to hospital, and I suffered no ill effects whatsoever.
I am deeply grateful to Master for compassionately saving me!
