Prophecy?

I don't know why I feel such an urgency to get my personal history written and do family history. I am only 66 years old, but I think that the world is going to change drastically before I die and I might not live to see the second coming. It seems to me that there have been a lot of books written lately about the state of the government and the world. 

This reminds me of a dream I had on December 17, 1989.

I dreamed there was a great disaster. Dan was away from us when it happened. We were separated, estranged. The kids and I had to leave our home. We had to walk to a relocation point. Along the way, I saw Peggy briefly. She was OK. Then I met Jenifer and Debbie. We had a joyful reunion. Jenifer asked why we were lost to each other for so long and why it took something like this for us to find each other again. We walked for a time together and then were separated. I had to work real hard to keep the children with me. They keep wandering off. Jerame and Zac more than Jessica. She stayed pretty close to me. I had to keep calling Jerame and Zac back, but they always returned.

 About halfway through, we found Dan. He was sleeping in a barn with a man named George who was troubled. He was trying to help him out. We walked together until we almost reached the end of our journey, then as we got there the crowd pushed Dan forward and he got into an elevator ahead of us. The children and I were alone together the last group to board the elevator. There were only three other people with us. We headed for a boat to take us to our destination. A few other stragglers were walking toward the boat. I don’t remember anything about the boat or our journey. I just remember arriving at our destination port and waiting for a van to take us to our living quarters. 

Just before we got there, I had to go to the bathroom. The stalls were all full. It was a huge room, like the waiting room in a bus station or airport, with enclosed stalls along the wall. When I got a stall the kids had to wait outside. Jessica didn’t want to be away from me, so she edged the little boy who was on the seat next to me out (there were two toilets to a stall). Jerame and Zac wandered off again. I sensed that they were gone, so I called to them. Jerame came back alone. I ashed him where Zac was. He said he didn’t know. I told him to go and find him and he did and brought him back. We all got into the van to go to our living quarters. When we arrived at our destination, I asked our guide if he knew where Dan was. He was kind and told me that he was sharing a room with Dave. I asked him why we couldn’t be together and he said that Dan needed to learn something and he couldn’t do it if he was with me all the time, but that he would be close by and we could talk on the phone. When I turned around the kids were gone. I asked where they were and they guide wouldn’t tell me exactly, just that they were being taken care of. I asked if they would be together and the guide said, “Of course”. 

I was then asked what I did in life. I didn’t talk, but somehow communicated that I took care of children and taught them. I was told I would be in charge of a group of children. I asked if Jessica, Jerame and Zac would be in my group and I was told no, that they would distract me from the other children who needed me more. I accepted that and went about making plans for the child care center. They had some things, but not enough. I said they would need a lot more to do the best possible job for these children. I never saw the faces of the children I was working with.

My first impression upon waking was immense sadness. I thought it was unfair that I had worked so hard to keep the children with me and in the end they were taken away. I thought I should share the dream with Dan and my family (Jenifer and Debbie) and Mom and Dad. I thought that Dan and Dad needed to have the whole dream and Dad should decide how much to share with the family and maybe just Jenifer and Debbie. I was impressed that Dad and Dan were supposed to help me interrupt the dream. I felt that it had a lot of significance and may have even been a personal revelation but I wasn’t sure of the meaning of a lot of it. After I wrote down all that I could remember I wrote a letter to Dad with the dream in it and asked for his help in interpreting it.

On 12/30/89, Dad wrote the following reply:

“We were surprised to receive your letter regarding your dream until we opened it and read it. By way of preface, you are the third member of the family, that I am aware of who has had a similar revelation. This please me, because I know that the Lord is pleased with you and wants you to be aware of certain things that are for your benefit and to prepare you for things to come. The Lord has more for you and my counsel is that you Fast and Pray for the additional revelation that will make things clearer to you.

Your dream is literal with regard to some of the judgements that are to fall upon us. I some respects you will be able to change some of these things by your actions and you are being warned about these things.

You may not be aware of certain revelations given to the early prophets and apostles of the Church. One in particular states that the Government of the United States will be hanging by a thread and if it is to be saved at all that it will be by “The Elders of the Church”. Another states that the United States will be invaded by the Russians on one coast and the Chinese on the other. This is referred to in “The Journal of Discourses”. You can find part of this in Volume 26 starting on page 142. You can find other references (in general terms) to the judgements in Ezekial Chapter 28. Also the book of Isiah gives more in general terms. Section 132 of the Doctrine and Covenants tells of the reasons some of this will take place. Other early church prophets state that the Church membership has not been diligent in working toward the establishment of Zion and that if they had that Zion would already be redeemed. Again, the amount of suffering that will take place is a result of the invasions and the confusion that will result from this. As a result of these conditions, the United States will be in such chaos that a part of the army will want to go on fighting and part will want to give up. This will result in our people being placed under captivity and some of them sent to distant places and separated from their families. This will in turn result in some of the conditions that you have seen in your dream. However, we have been promised that the faithful and deserving ones will be redeemed, searched out by 144,000 “hunters of mankind” who will be charged with locating and bringing back the captive saints. (This is a duty that has not been widely publicized, but is readily available to those who search the prophecies).”

On 1/3/90, we went to the temple after I had fasted and prayed about my dream to seek answers. I stayed in the Celestial room for quite some time, but the only answer that I got was that the dream was a warning and that the answer will come in time.

In the twenty four years since I had this dream, I have seen many things happen that have pointed to the collapse of the government and I now feel that it is indeed hanging by a thread as Dad mentioned. As I was typing this, many thoughts came to my mind. I have seen Jerame and Jessica stray from the teachings of the church and Zac is all but lost to me because even though he lives only about an hour away, I rarely or hear from him. Peggy, Debbie and Jenifer all live far from me, but I have seen them on occasion. Jenifer has chosen a path which is very different from what she was taught when she was growing up. In spite of that, I still love her and am really close to one of her daughters. Debbie has also chosen a different path and is far from the church. We are in touch and I love her very much also. Peggy strayed from the path for a while, but is back on track now and we have much in common. Jessica has also chosen a path which is far from the teachings of the church and that had made us not as close as we once were. I still love him very much and miss her since she is also out of the State. Jerame has come home and we enjoy and very good relationship. He has been back to church with us, but hasn’t been able to attend much lately since his job requires him to work on Sunday. Generally, Dan and I have a good relationship; but his faith waivers and right now he doesn’t really want to go to church. He has always been a good man and wants to help others.

I have at different times in my life worked with children. I have done daycare in my home, taught Primary, worked with Special Needs children and worked in a daycare center. There is much suffering going on the world right now with wars, chaos and natural disasters. I can see that the time is getting very close. The environment is changing and this winter places that rarely see snow have had it like the South and the East has had a really bad Winter. We have had it easy compared to some places. It even snowed in Washington and Oregon and although Oregon had snow they and California are in a drought. I fear that the last days are really close at hand. We had a really bad flood here in the Denver Metro area last Fall and with the record snowfall, there is concern that we will have more floods this Spring when the snow melts. I fear that things will only get worse!