Davide Diego Gerbella

Born: March 30, 2000

Entered his New Life: March 29, 2007

During the course of about a 17 months, one of the members of the church made us aware of a physical need her great grandson by the name of David. David was five years old and had a tumor in his head which as you can image caused serious problems. Throughout that period of time, David underwent numerous surgeries chemotherapy treatments and as a result lost the sight of one eye and the ability to smell. There were many people praying for David and his family for strength during this difficult time as well as for David to be healed.

As time passed David continued to get worse and during the week of March 15^th 2007 David’s condition worsened, the pain became more intense and he required more and more pain medication. At this time some interesting things happened. One day his mother noted that David was reaching out and saying “Hey, Hey”. When his mother asked who he was calling, David said “I don’t know, they don’t answer me”. One day he asked his mom to call a friend named Thomas, and ask to come and pray for him. And he wanted Thomas called ASAP. When Thomas arrived, David was dozing and again he started calling out “Hey, Hey”. When Thomas asked him who he was calling, again David said “I don’t know, they don’t answer me”. Thomas asked him if they were angels, or what did they look like. David again just said “they didn’t answer me”. The nurses told David’s mom that he was hallucinating due to the pain medication.

Another time David was reaching out as if to grasp something, his mom said “I’m right here take my had”. And David just said “No!” His mom asked what he was dreaming about and David said “I don’t want to talk about it now”. Later on when David was more awake, his mom asked him about what he had been dreaming, David said “I saw God and He was on the cross, but he looked at me and smiled and he told me not to worry, that everything is going to be alright”.

On the evening of March 17^th, 2007 , David’s grandmother went to visit him. David was sleeping real peacefully – his aunt was kneeling on the right side of his bed holding his hand to here cheek. His mom, some cousins, and grandmother were all sitting on the left side talking. During this time one of the cousins was taking pictures of David, then she came to the rest of the family and said, “I don’t understand, I’ve taken 3 pictures and deleted them because they seemed to be blurry, but I just took another one and look, it keeps coming out the same way, this is a digital camera, but the picture doesn’t print the way that I see it”.

When the grandmother showed it to David’s mom, she said “look, they look like angels around the bed and one is reaching out to touch his left hand!” In the meantime the aunt on the right side of the bed, hadn’t even moved but you couldn’t see her in the pictures because these white figures were surrounding David's bedside. It’s no wonder his sleep was so peaceful!

She then turned back again attempt to take David’s picture and the following is the photo she took.