what is up guys my name is logan mayberry and today we have a special guest we have christian
mayberry and his mom kim mayberry here to tell a wild testimony of what happened to christian
just a few years back so christian just start from the beginning tell us about like what all
happened from the very beginning everything that you remember yeah all right well so
eight years ago i was with some guys you know i'm just my husband but not doing anything wrong or
sleeping or anything you know we went down to the we live in muldrow oklahoma and we went down to
the bottoms down by the river go you know hang out but we were on an atv and his mom she was driving
and you know down right by the river there's rock just visualize rocks or
trees all kind of you get really severely hurt as well and sadly i wasn't wearing a helmet
first mistake i mean i don't know if maybe i would have gotten hurt so severely but
i wasn't wearing one and so i flew off and hit the ground so severely hard my entire brain
was injured i had a tbi traumatic brain injury and it was very hard i mean i i didn't walk
or talk for what about six months or so over a year over a year it was so major and so surreal
so my earthly body was on earth but my spirit went to heaven and i met jesus our father our lord our
savior our redeemer and he put his arms out and he and he gave me a hug and he told me he loves me
and i met my little sister vanessa mom's daughter
um and you know mom she had a miscarriage so i got to meet her in heaven and i told mom
that she looked just like her and definitely as sweet as she is i'm a mama's boy too so
i don't understand you say that on national television wow so mom what was that like when
christian mentioned that he had met your daughter uh just you know took me back i had no idea this
was um about a year after his accident but you know he he didn't talk even a word for like six
months and it took him a very long time to kind of come back to us and at that point he i mean
he still wasn't walking or doing most things but he was just laying in that bed at the rehab
one day and we were talking about actually someone else losing a child and when he heard that he just
said oh mom you know that i saw vanessa in heaven don't you and i said no i had no idea
so it was just it was just amazing and he said that she she put her arms out and you know just
said christian and embraced him and wow how awesome that was you know and he got to meet
three grandparents that he had never met before they left me and they did for three hours
before they called the police they very wrongly they she they poured alcohol on me
said i was drinking i i told her to let me drive the people which was another lie and which isn't
very not true so they poured alcohol all over you to make it seem like you were intoxicated
at the time exactly which of course when they got into the hospital they tested they did
you know whatever the test excuse me not a drop but i'll call you me
you know for me i knew that i mean it was going to take a miracle to even for him to survive sure so
i knew i had to i could not be begging god for a miracle and to give me my son back on one hand but
on the other hand hating her not forgiving her no i knew that i had to forgive her sure i mean i had
so many parents say to me i don't know how you did that you know if it were me she would already be
six foot under herself you know all of that but i had to focus on him and the miracle that we needed
and i knew if i was bitter and not you know forgiving her i mean i know that god forgave me
and i just had to forgive her and and let that go and of course he did too and you know not
saying it was easy sure not saying it was easy for any of us you know and just a few months
into all of this my husband his dad started having heart attacks and strokes and within um
about two years he was in a nursing home you know so everything just kind of went you know
very quickly sure but you know god got us through that so tell us a little bit about the experience
you had when you were in heaven like what was that like and what did you see perfect everything what
was the first thing you saw did you see the the gates of heaven or i really can't tell
you if i did earn or not but i definitely saw it perfect everything perfect everything beautiful
everything everyone was so happy nice kind welcoming there's no no negativity there's no
no anger no it's just perfect everything perfect it's like i we all know jesus he is perfect he he
said my name he's a christian and he his arms out and he come to me and he gave me a a huge hug why
that teacher she was like he's god okay he must be pretty huge so he's huge all across the world
and he gave me a hug and he put me up he left me he told me i'm going to have one
day i want to have a platform i'm going to bring thousands to christ
and be very well known and you know so whenever i
come back to earth and i came to my senses and i was able to do things on my own again or whatever
i started thinking and i started praying to god i started saying lord i know that we
can do all things through you through christ who strengthens us so you know thousands of people who
why don't we make it millions one thing i want to say about heaven is you know
he always talks about and he tells everyone about the hug about jesus giving him a hug and
since he has been back i mean he always was very loving and would hug people
but i mean everybody gets a hug it's just kind of like the lord gave him
that love and he wants to share that so you mentioned that you were out of town uh so when
you got the call what were your first thoughts that were running to your mind not christian
not christian not christian i just kept saying not christian you know it i i didn't realize i heard
my daughter talking to her husband on the phone we were in cancun and um we'd never been even
out of town before my daughter and i but it was my 50th birthday and so special occasions she took me
so um she's got the phone call and i could tell something was wrong and i'm just like listening
and then then i could tell she said christian and my heart just sank but i'm like no no it's
it's going to be nothing you know that's what i'm telling myself and then i hear that they've life
flighted and we're down in muldrow so you know the hospital there couldn't do anything for him
that's a pretty good distance away from tulsa too yeah it's um you know well from fort smith it's
about two hours and he was at a major hospital a big hospital but uh and they weren't even
willing to life flight him because they didn't think it would do any good and my husband and
the youth pastor that was there and his cousin they were just praying praying praying and then
the doctor said because my husband's like you have to do something you have to do something
so i think probably just to hush my husband up he said okay you know life led him to tulsa
but when i heard the words life flooded i just remember just kind of like sliding down
onto the floor you know out of the bed and just crying and saying not christian not christian
then when i was able to get myself up just started throwing stuff in the suitcase you know and
thinking we were going to be out of there immediately but it took um
couldn't get the flight out to the following day oh wow so
so that was quite a day so what were you doing during this time of just waiting to leave well
for hours we were trying to get a flight out but you know and back and forth on the phone with my
husband and stuff but um two things that the lord did that day that i will always know was the lord
after we finally got our flight scheduled my daughter we went back up to the room
because we had been down in the offices at the time the hotel was trying to help us
but we sat down on the bed and was just like we were just like wiped out and she
said okay mom we've got the rest today we can't just sit here in the hotel room and i said well
what do you want to do you know i mean we're not gonna do anything you know she said well let's
just take a walk on the beach i said okay let's do that so we walked down to the water and as
we're walking to the water there is is beach as far as you can see to the right and to the left
miles of beach but right in my path right there was this little blue cross
that i almost stepped on and i saw it and i said to my daughter i said mia what is this but i
knew what it was i didn't know what it was it wasn't a piece of jewelry sure but i knew what it
was that god had said i am here because i mean you know when you think about it a beach as far as you
can see either direction it's going to be right in my path what are the odds what are the odds
and it's a little powder blue cross it's not off of a necklace or anything and it's
just a piece of plastic but it's across and so it's at home in my jewelry box and then
as we're walking she took a few photographs photographs of the ocean not of me or anything
like that because i mean you know we weren't doing that but later my mom was looking at the photos
and and it was the most beautiful picture of the ocean with storm out in the ocean it was storms
were rolling in of course our storm had just hit and um there was just one set of footprints
you know in the sand and so you know it's a very famous picture of one set of footprints means
that's when the lord you know you're saying where are you lord this is my worst storm ever well
he was carrying me there was only one set of footprints that was his footprints because he
had me on his back you guys had just come from that direction yeah we had we had just got the
phone call we'd spent hours that morning trying to get out and so then when we finally got the flight
arranged then we took the walk on the beach and that's when i found the cross and that's
when i um my daughter took the picture and it didn't even realize it was one set of footprints
and you know it's cancun there's a lot of people down there there shouldn't have been just one set
of footprints but i will show you um those photos there on my living room wall frame oh wow yeah i'd
love to see those yeah that's so awesome that was that that was just god saying i'm here yeah
so tell me a little bit about the people that visited christian while he was in the hospital so
yeah um we just started noticing um fairly quickly in this whole thing we would have nurses that
would say things like i drove quickly to get to work tonight because i wanted to be the one that
got to take care of christian and we'd have the cleaning people that would come in and they'd say
there's just something about being in this room i want to i want to be in this room and they'd come
in and they'd just visit with us and visit and you know he wasn't charming and making them laugh
he was in a coma and he was a hard patient i mean he was paralyzed on one side of his body
so it's not like he was an easy patient sure they're not even communicating with christian at
this point right now not at all so we just we just knew it was the holy spirit you know wow that's
all it could be you know the holy spirit just like with the facebook page how it just started growing
so rapidly and so we just knew that god was bringing in all these people to watch this miracle
because we were claiming and believing and not going to accept anything but a miracle when he was
first in the hospital they said be prepared he may not pull through this you know and then when he
did pull through they said well be prepared what you have now is is very very possible what you're
going to have forever which was nothing again still not talking not doing anything okay so no
talking not walking nothing nothing nothing at all but i would tell them and point to him and say you
remember the name christian mayberry because we're going to get him back and several years later we
got to do kind of like we called it a victory tour through oklahoma and we got to go to facilities
and places where we were told that and like one in oklahoma city the children's center
in bethany and you know that doctor told me with literally tears coming down her cheeks she said
it will take a miracle to get your son back and so we got to walk through those doors just like this
when he left that facility he was on a stretcher he wasn't saying a word nothing
and so we've got pictures of her hugging him and you know they were all like in
shock how tall he was they were like we knew we had to put bed extenders on the bed but
wow look how tall he is and it was it was really cool but you know a lot of doctors said you know
i'm sorry but this is it but by god but but absolutely yeah dr roosley said
it would take a miracle but i believe in miracles i love that that's so cool
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