(Minghui.org) My youngest daughter had an enlarged thyroid when she was seven years old. Her neck was so swollen that it was larger than her face. She was in pain and could not eat. She also had a fever and no energy. The village doctors could not help her. They suggested we take her to the hospital in the city. One doctor said the inflammation needed to be stopped, and that the thyroid could be removed after she was twelve. But even if the thyroid was removed, it would affect her health. She might become obese or thin, and she might not be able to sing or speak very loudly.

Although we were poor, I decided to take my daughter to the city hospital. My husband was reluctant to spend the money. I took the only money we had, several hundred yuan, and took my daughter to the city hospital. After we arrived, I was told the doctor who could treat my daughter’s condition was on leave. I had no choice but to return home. As we lived in a village that was a long way from the city, we could not afford to go back to the hospital.

I had only just begun to practice Falun Dafa then and did not have a deep understanding of the teachings. When a practitioner heard of my daughter’s condition, she gave me fruit that was offered to Master and asked me to have my daughter eat it. She said that when her grandson had a high fever, it subsided after he recited, “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance is good.” I began reciting Master’s Fa to my daughter every day. She soon stopped groaning in pain, her neck swelling subsided, and she was back to normal. Thank you Master for resolving her illness.

My husband is very supportive of my practice. He often tells people the house no longer smells of medicine and we saved who knows how much money on medical bills. After the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began to persecute Dafa, and the police came to harass me, my husband stopped them.

During the early days of the persecution, my oldest daughter was arrested and taken to a brainwashing session. The police called us and said that my daughter was on a hunger strike, and asked us to come. My daughter refused to give up practicing Falun Dafa and told people how good the practice was. The police wanted us to persuade her to give up her faith. My daughter called home and told us that the police said we could take her home the next day at 8 a.m. When my husband went to the police station the next day, he did not see our daughter. He asked, “You said I could come and take her home. Where is she?” He was told that someone came and took her. My husband was upset, and said, “I’m her father, who took her?” The person did not answer. My husband said angrily, “She’s still a child! I will throw you down from the upstairs if you don’t tell me the truth!” The police officer told him she was taken to a brainwashing session.

My husband went to the brainwashing location, but there was no one in the building. He heard our daughter shout, “Father!” A gate separated them, but he saw her shackled to a tree. He shouted, “Who hung up my daughter?!” A plainclothes police officer came out, and said, “I will call the police if you continue to make a scene. My husband tried to grab him through the gate rails but failed. He shouted, “Call the police!”

Another man came out, claiming to be the supervisor. He smiled and said, “Don’t be angry, we will let the child down.” He then ordered someone to remove the shackles from my daughter. Afterwards my husband was able to visit her whenever he wanted to.

When he brought food to our daughter he heard a family member of a detained Dafa practitioner tell the supervisor, “Let her go home. If she continues to practice, I’ll break her leg. I promise not to let her practice Falun Dafa.” My husband told the man, “How can you say such things. Your wife believes in this, and people have freedom of belief. How can you break your wife’s leg for believing in Falun Dafa? Jiang Zemin [the former CCP leader] forbids people from practicing—who does he think he is?” My husband asked the supervisor, “Don’t you agree?” The supervisor quickly answered, “Yes, yes!”

Another time, my husband brought me to visit our daughter. The newly appointed 610 Office official arrogantly told me, “Who is your daughter?” I replied, and he said she would soon be sentenced to a labor camp. I told my husband about this, and he said he would see him the next day. He went to see the newly appointed official the next day. After my husband greeted him politely, the official said, “Who are you?”

My husband shouted, “How dare you be so arrogant? You are just a former village head who was sent here. I am not afraid of you!” The man then changed his attitude and said with a smile on his face, “We are all locals, you can come and visit your child whenever you want. The door is always open.” When he returned home my husband told me, “You shouldn’t be afraid of these people. They know they are earning money by doing wrongful things. Good people don’t do such things for money. I never bully kind people but at the same time I’m not scared of bad people.”

I was illegally sentenced to one year and nine months in a forced labor camp. Just before the New Year, my husband called the head of the police station and said, “If you don’t release my wife before the New Year, I’ll make sure you don’t have a peaceful holiday! You persecute Falun Dafa for money... Don’t you have a family to support? If I don’t have a family, you will lose your family too. Jiang Zemin has people protecting him, do you have anyone protecting you?”

The man was frightened. The next day, someone called my husband and told him to take me home. I was released after being detained for 12 days.

The 610 Office officials came to ransack my house, but they didn’t find anything about Falun Dafa. An official took a mobile phone that was on the table. My youngest daughter who was around six at the time, saw it and told my husband. My husband told the man, “Put the phone down!” The head of the 610 Office also told the man to put the phone down. My husband told me if he refused to return the phone, he would beat him up and report him for robbing us.

My husband received many blessings because he defended practitioners. He once had a high fever after harvesting beans. I read the Fa to him as he lay in bed. After reading one lecture, he was asleep and I left to do chores. When he woke up he said, “My fever is gone.” Another time, he discovered that there was not enough battery in his electric bicycle to get him home from work. He thought, “Why don’t I try reciting ‘Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance is good’, and see if Master will help me.” As he recited the phrase, he saw the light that should have been off, start flashing. Thus he managed to ride home. He happily told me what happened and said Dafa is truly extraordinary!

My husband has always supported my cultivation practice. When police officials often came to harass me and there was no place to hide the Dafa books, my husband said, “Why don’t you sew the book into my coat. Whenever you want to read it, I will bring it to you.” He never said a word to discourage me from practicing. During those dark, terrifying days, his actions comforted me, and also brought him blessings.

From my own personal experience, this persecution is like a farce. It shows kind people in the world how CCP officials persecute good people who simply want to follow Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. From another perspective, it also goes to show how ridiculous this persecution is. I hope kind people will distinguish right and wrong, learn the facts, and stay away from the CCP. Remember “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good,” choose a good future for yourself, and be saved by gods and Buddhas.