My name is Shambel Gebrie and I am from wolkayte. I was in the military serving my country for many years. I was living in addiction to cigarettes, drugs… all of them. After serving in the military, I returned to my hometown and got married. But then I became ill and hospitalized. It was there that I was told that I had HIV Aids. And I was told to go to people’s door to door saying, “live carefully, don’t let what happened to me happen to you”. After living in sorrow like this for a year and a half, one person came to me and gave me a photo of Abba Yohannes Tesfamariam. And I held it. On the 3rd day when I was asleep Abba Yohannes Tesfamariam came to me in a dream asking me to come to Wenkeshet monastery and be baptized, also he blessed me with the cross and breathed on me. From that moment I saw many things coming out of my body and disappearing into the air like mist. After that our father Abba Yohannes told me “Be still, I am Abba Yohannes, the founder of Wenkeshet.”
When I woke up, I became very amazed saying “I never knew that father, nor visited his monastery called Wenkeshet, what kind of miracle is this?” Then I came to Wenkeshet. When I was coming to Wenkeshet, I arrived at Gondar and went to a hospital to be examined for HIV Aids. But it was there that I was told the amazing news that “you have no HIV virus in your blood.”
I, while being happy that I was cured by the prayer of Abba Yohannes Tesfamariam without going to the monastery, said that I would not return without seeing the monastery and being baptized in it.
After arriving at the monastery and being baptized for a few days a paper with Arabic writing and other meat-like thing came out of me. The addiction to cigarettes and drugs which I had for 31 years gone from me. Today I see it as Poisonous and deadly. Now I am completely healthy. Praised be the God of Abba Yohannes.
The second thing that I saw with my own eyes
After I had been cured of all my illnesses and addictions, I checked to confirm that I was truly free from the deadly HIV virus from different hospitals in Gondar and Bahir Dar and returned home joyfully. One day I had held in my hands a book from Wenkeshet monastery. My spiritual father Looking at the picture of Abba Yohannes while being amazed by the miracles I told him said ‘’what a great father! how full of grace? is there still a father like this in our time?” But there was another man who lives in our village, a sorcerer who claims himself to be a Mergeta. He took the book saying, “let me see!” and when he saw the picture of Abba Yohannes, he started insulting him saying “what is it?” and started poking it with a pen. When I saw this, I immediately took it off his hands. And 3 days later his hands were withered, and his eyes became blind.
If you want to see the Grace of the holy spirit that God gave to Abba Yohannes, come, see and believe, or else don’t get into things that don’t concern you by hearing false rumours.
As for me, I am healed by the prayer of Abba Yohannes. Glory be to God.