A Sweet Promise of Healings
From a talk given by Faby on April 19, 2026
A lot of times we panic when we don't know what's going to happen. Something that I remember clearly is when I had my first child, Joshua. I was a first-time mom, experiencing the joy of having this beautiful baby, but my English still wasn't very good. I remember my husband coming with me to all the appointments because he needed to translate everything that was going on. It was hard, but the hardest part came when that baby was born.
It was an emergency C-section. I don't even remember being very afraid, but when my baby arrived and everything seemed to be fine, I was the happiest woman. I remember going home with Josh, and my mom had flown in from Mexico to help me. But that night, I woke up with a really high fever. My husband said, "We have to go back to the hospital." I said, "Why? I'm okay." He said, "No, you have a fever. You probably have an infection."
And it was a horrible infection. It kept me away from my baby for an entire week. I had fevers day and night, and every time I thought, Oh, it's going to go away, I'm going to be fine it came back. It was so hard. I couldn't express myself well because my English was still limited, and I had to depend on the nurses and everyone coming and going. I was on antibiotics and couldn't even hold my baby. It was so sad. I had this beautiful child and I couldn't even enjoy it.
During that time, brothers and sisters, I was very, very scared. I really thought I was going to die. I really did. Because every time I thought it'll be better tomorrow, the fever came back. I was so desperate that I remember praying at the hospital. I had my scriptures with me, and one time I just opened them. You know those moments when you open the scriptures and say, Maybe my Heavenly Father will give me an answer for what I'm going through. And brothers and sisters, my Heavenly Father answered me. When I opened to that scripture, I didn't know who He was speaking to, but the answer came to me:
"I have heard thy prayer; I have seen thy tears. Behold, I will heal thee, and on the third day thou shalt go up to the house of the Lord."
When I read that, brothers and sisters, I truly felt that Heavenly Father was speaking to me, that He was giving me the answer: I'm going to be okay. And I was. Little by little, the fevers came down, and I started feeling that assurance: I'm going to be okay. My Heavenly Father answered me. But it required true action. We have to exercise our faith. We have to turn to the scriptures and to prayer.
Believe it or not, I couldn't find that scripture again for a long time, because I hadn't known who was being spoken to when I first read it. But years later, I found it. It is 2 Kings chapter 20, verse 5, where God instructs the prophet Isaiah to speak to the king, Hezekiah, and tell him that he was going to die. When Hezekiah heard this, he prayed to God with all his strength, and those words were the answer he received.
When I found it, I was so happy. I said, That was the scripture, that was the scripture I had read when I was so sick. And I am just so happy to have found it, and very excited to share it with you today.
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