minimum. His heart was in the right place, he really did want to cleanse our people of their sins, it was just that no one would believe that God would give that responsibility to a thirteen-year-old. To keep John happy, Josh and I let him baptize our little brothers and sisters at every body of water we passed, at least until Josh’s little sister Miriam developed the sniffles and Joshua had to perform an emergency healing on her. “You really can heal,” John exclaimed. “Well, the sniffles are easy,” Joshua said. “A little mucus is nothing against the power of the Lord.”
