BLESSINGS AND VIRTUE GOING OUT OF YOU

I first read this in TPJS before my mission.  I was intrigued by it - and excited to be given this Priesthood and ordained to be an Elder so I could exercise this gift.  Sure enough, when giving a blessing of healing, this would occur.  I mentioned it one day to my wife a year or two ago, and she was surprised to hear of this very thing happening.

Here is what I came across again that I love - because it rings with me:

At a church meeting held on the evening of 13 March 1843, the Prophet blessed another group of children. Of that occasion, he wrote:

“Twenty-seven children were blessed, nineteen of whom I blessed myself, with great fervency. Virtue went out of me, and my strength left me. …

“[The next day] Elder Jedediah M. Grant enquired of me the cause of my turning pale and losing strength last night while blessing children. I told him that I saw that Lucifer would exert his influence to destroy the children that I was blessing, and I strove with all the faith and spirit that I had to seal upon them a blessing that would secure their lives upon the earth; and so much virtue went out of me into the children, that I became weak, from which I have not yet recovered; and I referred to the case of the woman touching the hem of the garment of Jesus. (Luke 8).” (History of the Church, 5:303.)