I’ll just come out and say it. I’m a member of the LDS church. I believe that God still calls prophets as his mouth piece on the earth, and I believe that today, that prophet is Gordon B. Hinckley.
He delivered a speech a number of years back where in the middle of a portion that was on finances he said the following:
“There is a portent of stormy weather ahead to which we had better give heed.”
I said this was a “number of years back,” but it was in 1998 during a talk called “To the Boys and to the Men.” What exactly did he mean by this?
Looking Back
Maybe I’m being a little more candid and a little more personal than normal, but when I look back at this statement made in October of 1999 and then I look at what occurred during the next few years . . . well . . . I think “stormy weather” was the perfect metaphor.
But I really don’t look at the “proof” so much as the clarity with which that statement “portent of stormy weather” so often came to my mind after hearing it. My question now is this: Have we seen this portent of stormy weather already come and pass or is it still here and arriving?
