(Clearwisdom.net) Fanny used to work in an Air Force rehabilitation facility in Peru. One day last year, the highest ranking officer at the facility looked at the service men doing drills and talked to his subordinates, "Look, what is the use of these drills? When the drills are finished, they go back to smoking, drinking, and looking for girls. Is that healthy? True health comes from one's mind, so one can resist the bad habits and be self-disciplined. But nowadays, it is really hard to find anything that can provide this."
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Officers and servicemen in the Peruvian Air Force practice Falun Gong |
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Officers and servicemen of the Peruvian Air Force practice Falun Gong |
One day, Fanny was handed a flyer about Falun Gong on a bus, and the words "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance" touched her heart. "This is what I have been looking for," she thought and later she excitedly reported to the head officer. The officer was surprised to see the words "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance." He couldn't believe anyone in the world could truly attain this. He smiled and told Fanny not to be fooled, because ordinary people couldn't truly follow Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance and the exercise classes couldn't be free. Fanny said she believed what the flyer said and that she would find and bring the people that practiced Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance to him.
Fanny called the phone number on the flyer and invited several Falun Gong practitioners to the air force base. The officer at first only agreed to talk to them for 15 minutes, but when the conversation started, he asked a lot of questions. The practitioners answered the questions and also shared their personal experiences of practicing Falun Dafa. The improvements they experienced after doing the exercises and the miraculous effects of Falun Gong surprised the officer. "This exercise is good. Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance is good," he said. When he heard that the practitioners in China are being jailed and tortured and that the Chinese Communist Party is harvesting organs from living practitioners, he was appalled. When Fanny reminded him there were other things to do, he realized the conversation had lasted over one hour.
The first time the practitioners came to the base to teach the exercises, they met the officer again in the corridor. He gave them a salute and said, "Welcome. Please make yourselves at home here." When the exercise music started, a group of people began to learn the exercises. Suddenly, a young man in a wheelchair came in and looked at the practitioners with a big smile on his face. When the practitioners saw him, they immediately recognized him and called out his name, "Richard!" A few months earlier, Richard had gone to a group practice site and learned the Falun Gong exercises. One day he told the assistant at the site that he was a soldier and that he had been assigned to another area. "No matter where I go, I will always remember Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance and be a good person."
On that assignment, his leg was injured and he was moved to this rehabilitation facility. On this day, when he suddenly heard the exercise music, he was very surprised and rushed to the classroom to find out what was going on.
After the exercise teaching, Richard and several others in wheelchairs waited in the corridor and asked for more flyers. After sometime, when the practitioners came for the second exercise teaching class, these young men had all recovered and had left the facility. Richard had already returned to the group exercise site when this article was being written.
In June 2008, Fanny was transferred to a school for Air Force officers. When she talked about Falun Gong at break time, many people wanted to learn, so she contacted practitioners and organized free exercise classes at a club. After they had taught two classes, the manager at the club said to practitioners, "This club is always available for you to use." The director of Fanny's department thanked the practitioners for teaching them such a good exercise and welcomed them to come often.
More classes to teach the exercises have been scheduled, and more people are eager to learn Falun Dafa.
