Warning in advance of 2010 Chilean Earthquake

(Note:  I am having trouble with my blog.  When I try to put paragraphs into a "quote", which makes them into a narrower column, it kills my computer.  So I won't be putting any of these quotations into quotation blocks.  If anyone knows why this is happening, please tell me.  I have a Mac.)

http://www.ldsmag.com/lds-church-updates/article/2615?&ac=1

I just read an article from Meridian Magazine, which was published shortly after the Chilean earthquake of January 12, 2010.

The article was written by Sister Lisa Laycock, the wife of the mission president of Chile.

"When we were set apart for this calling, Elder Scott of the Council of the Twelve Apostles taught us many important lessons. He spoke from personal experience when he was a mission president in Argentina. One message that he shared with us is this: "At times, during your mission, you will be awakened in the middle of the night or the early morning hours with thoughts of specific things you should do for certain missionaries. Do not ignore these thoughts. They are promptings from the Holy Ghost who will communicate with you in the stillness of the night or the peace of the early morning hours. He will speak to you then because that is when you are still enough to hear."


She goes on to tell about the warning that she and her husband received:



"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....."

"We set a goal and arranged our schedule so that we could visit every apartment in the mission to check for safety and to review with our missionaries what to do in case of an earth quake. What a wonderful experience we have had as we have met with them and shared scriptures with them about being spiritually and physically prepared. "...if ye are prepared, ye shall not fear" (D&C 38:30)."

You can read the rest of the article and see how blessed they all were for preparing.

I loved reading of this experience.  I know that the Lord reveals things to people to prepare them for danger.  I have a testimony of this.  I know that many people are receiving dreams and visions in the Church today, to prepare them for the future.

This is in accordance with Pres. Hinckley's talk "Living in the Fullness of Times", Ensign Nov. 2001, and Henry B. Eyring's talk "Raising Expectations", CES Satellite Training Broadcast, August 4, 2004,  and Richard G. Scott's devotional address at BYU, Aug. 21, 2007, in which all three of them talked about the Lord sending visions and dreams, and at least two of them especially quoted Joel 2:27-32 about "your sons and daughters shall prophesy,  and your old men shall dream dreams."

Pres. Eyring ("Raising Expectations") said about Joel 2:27-32. "This is not poetry, nor is it allegory;  it is a description of reality as it will be.  Some of it will happen so gradually that you may not notice it.  Some has already begun across the church..."

I believe him.