The Lord's Earthquake Warning (LDS Devotional)

Meridian Magazine ^ | March 2, 2010 | Sister Lisa Laycock

[Ripliancum]

President Larry Laycock and his wife, Sister Lisa Laycock head the Santiago Chile East Mission and had spent the two weeks prior to the 8.8 earthquake visiting each missionary apartment and preparing them for an earthquake.

Here's why.

"Nearly two-and-one-half weeks ago, I was awakened at around 4:00 AM by just such a prompting. I did not hear a voice, but the thought was as clear as if it had been in the form of spoken words: "There is going to be an earthquake. Prepare your missionaries." I sat up in bed and immediately remembered Elder Scott's counsel. That morning I told Larry what had happened. He immediately set to work organizing our missionaries to prepare for an earthquake.

In talking with our office missionaries to arrange for them to put together a list of everything we would need to prepare...in both Spanish and English...we discovered that the Lord had also let two of our office missionaries know of the possibility of an earthquake (in the form of dreams) and the need to prepare our mission."

Editor's note: "They brought specific instructions on what to do, supplied water purification bottles for the missionaries, told them how to create a 36-hour kit for emergencies and how to stay in communication should an earthquake strike. They prayed with each missionary and dedicated their apartments. Why? Because of a special experience that alerted them to what was coming. They told their missionaries, “If ye are prepared, ye shall not fear.”

They have 171 full-time proselyting missionaries in this mission.

Special thanks to the Laycocks for allowing Meridian to publish this letter that Sister Laycock sent to her family shortly after the earthquake sharing their remarkable experience of kindness from the Lord. They are in Chile with their son, Landon.

http://www.ldsmag.com/churchupdate/100303chile.html#_begart

[Ripliancum]

I found this to be a beautiful account of listening to the Spirit. While many of these type of experiences are not shared publicly, this one was was, thought I'd pass it on here. It was originally sent to the family of the Mission President and his wife, and was passed along to Meridian. Great stuff!

[Ripliancum]

LDS ping.

Please respect the Devotional Threads for LDS only.

[Grig]

Awesome.

[dixjea]

BEAUTIFUL!

[Ripliancum]

The entire article is beautiful, definitely worth the read.

I’m also including here Elder Scott’s talk from October’s Conference. Since his counsel is mentioned by the Mission President, his message about listening to the quiet promptings of the spirit is powerful indeed.

Video:
http://broadcast.lds.org/genconf/2009/10/10/GC_2009_10_105_ScottRG___eng_.mp4

Text:
http://lds.org/conference/talk/display/0,5232,23-1-1117-2,00.html