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Talking to my family over the phone just before the Spring Festival, I knew that they wanted to make sure that I would come home for the family reunion during the Spring Festival. They wanted to talk me out of my "stubborn devotion" to Falun Gong. Having heard that, I said no more. To clarify the truth was my sole intention for going home this time. I hurriedly finished downloading, printing, and copying the relevant materials to bring back with me.

The trains were heavily booked. I didn't get home until 7.00 p.m. on New Year's Eve. After explaining briefly what had happened, I managed to contact my sister, the second eldest in the family. Besides me, she was the only one practicing Falun Dafa in the family. Only a few months ago she was introduced to Dafa and she still doesn't quite have the movements down. I wanted her to come over the next day (New Year's Day) to polish her movements.

Early the next morning, my mother was complaining about the blasts of the firecrackers throughout the night that prevented her from sleeping. Her knees, suffering from decades of arthritis, were wearing her down. The pain was so unbearable that she didn't know where to place her legs. Her heart was giving her trouble too. The pills she took just weren't helping her, and she was in no mood to talk at all.

Soon after breakfast my sister came. We practiced in mother's room. Just after the fourth exercise, mother was telling us in surprise, "How strange, half an hour after you started, my legs felt a lot better. They don't hurt any more. My right leg used to be much worse than my left, and it is now feeling a lot lighter than my left. My heartbeat has come back to normal as well. I don't feel sick at all now. Is Falun Gong really that miraculous?"

I was happy to hear that, and was amazed at the power of Dafa myself. Without wasting any time, I quickly explained to her the meaning of "The Buddha light illuminates everywhere, Propriety and justice rectify and harmonize everything."(Hong Yin) Half believing me, mother said she would wait and see.

Early in the morning, the second day of the New Year, mother said she felt terrible, just like the day before. Remembering what had happened the day before, I asked her to put the practice music on, maybe that would help. Half hearted, she put the music on. This time, only after five minutes' play, she was feeling better already. From her excitement, I can see that she wasn't going to doubt the power of Dafa anymore. Immediately, she joined in with our practice. For someone like her with years of chronic illnesses, she managed to last the whole four exercises the first time. We can't say that it wasn't a miracle.

Two days later, my eldest sister came. After listening to mother's experience, and having read the materials I printed out for her, she too was overwhelmed by the power of Dafa. She has now taken up Dafa practice.

Having seen all that, my brother, who had been objecting strongly to my practice, was quietly changing. Whenever he was free, he would now come around and ask questions related to cultivation practice. He could come up with questions that made me put on my thinking cap, questions I'd never thought of before. Recollecting from my experience through practice, I could clarify a lot of his doubts. Through this Dafa promotion, I have come to understand many things I didn't know before. Since then, my brother has also joined us in our practice as well.

Apart from Dad and my second brother, the whole family is now practicing Dafa!

A practitioner from China

March 2001.