MY THOUGHTS ON SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

I have been away from the blog for some time now as I have taken my family that could make it on a 20 day vacation extravaganza from Montana to Las Vegas to San Diego, Los Angeles, and then back up the coast to San Francisco and then Seattle.  I am taking it before I have no more cash to do so (I expect the economy to tank within the next 18 months) and to gage my feelings on so many areas that have been slated for destruction.

Tonight, we spent the evening at the Los Angeles Temple Visitor's Center where my younger sister served her mission 20 years ago.  It was fun to the see the history of the building and envision the excitement the people had back in the early 1950's.  It was a golden age, of sorts, in the Church with much growth and changes.  My parents were down in New Zealand at the time serving their teaching/building missions at the newly-constructed Hamilton, NZ Temple and College there.  Both temples were well built and should be able to withstand the forces they will be subjected to.  I was worried that they were built out of un-reinforced masonry, but it is clear that they built the Los Angeles Temple about as stout as the new Nauvoo Temple.  They then put a fragile facade on the exterior for decorative purposes - and it is NOT structural.

I heard tell that President McKay said the temple needed to be well-built in order to stand up to the waters from the Pacific Ocean that would come up to it.  If that is the case, several smaller temples in the area at lower elevations may not fare so well.

I served in the Orange area in the late 1980's while waiting for my visa to go to Brazil.  I was shocked to see people protesting our meetings because they thought we were not Christian.  Now, others protest us because we hold firm to our stance on marriage.  I noticed the guard house at the LA Temple was staffed tonight and many cameras watching the grounds - most likely to keep any rainbow people out.  I remember watching the physical fights in front of that temple not very long ago during the Prop 8 debacle.  If the people of West Hollywood and similar ilk continue their fight, they will have their wave.  As I drove around Hollywood Hills tonight, I wondered how many of those early 1920-1930's bungalows that have not been seismically retrofitted, would still be standing on their hillsides after a good shaking.  I feel that much is on thin ice down here.  At the same time, I know there are MANY good people here who will need to heed the call to remove themselves when the time is right.

My wife and I were able to share some stuff from the blog with a member of the San Diego Temple presidency a few nights ago and he seemed receptive to a degree.  Who can argue with the timing of Rabbi Ben Samuel's prophecy?  No logical person that I am aware of.....  Who can argue with the 1260 day coincidence of BHO's "Peace Prize", his ascension on Temple Mount during Passover and then the day of Atonement 1260 days after that on the beginning of the 50th, 50th Jubilee Year since the release of the Jews from Babylon?  Only a fool would dismiss it.  I try and tell most people, but they just give me the blank stare.  Nevertheless, I have been told to tell as many people as will listen.  And I do have a big, fat mouth and really do not give a rip what people think of me - so I plod along and do my job.

The reason for the trip is to get a gage of how the Lord sees things.  If this is to all occur as proscribed, then the people here are ripe.  Sin is so well concealed and packaged, that often you will not see it.  While walking the strip in Vegas with my family to get a feel for it, I could hardly detect the evil.  What I witnessed 19 years ago on a previous trip to the area with my new wife, sickened me.  Now, it is cleaned up mostly and one might be fooled to think "all is well in (one stake of) Zion".  I do not think that pretty packaging can easily hide the smell emanating from that sewer.  So, theoretically, we are on the cusp of massive things - and I am either de-sensitized to it all, or things have become so integrated and well-disguised that even the very elect may well be deceived in the battle that rages for the hearts and souls of men and women in this late juncture of the eleventh hour.  Las Vegas, due to its proximity to the AF Base, will receive some sort of nuclear destruction which will affect all in the valley.  There are many Saints in the area who will be affected.

How it will happen exactly, I do not know.  This I do know.  A large wave will hit the LA Basin.  Millions will be swept away and destroyed or outright inundated.  San Onofre will probably melt down - Fukushima-style.  The Hoover dam is built on a fault line (I pointed the clear evidence out on the canyon wall to the tour personnel there and he confirmed that they have had over 200,000 earthquakes at the dam since it was built).  That dam will fail and will bring much water down into the Gulf of Baja and do much destruction.  Power lost from that dam will dim Las Vegas and a portion of SoCal which will cause rioting of immense proportions amongst those who survive the initial shaking and destruction.  The Saints who tarry when asked to leave by the authorities of the Church will suffer immense hardships and death and destruction.

My only prayer as I drove the canyons above West Hollywood was that the pornography industry in whole and most of the movie industry would be wiped clean with no evidence that it ever existed.  It is a blight upon this nation and the world.  If that statement, or desire of mine makes you angry, then you still have some way to go in your transformation or are grossly ignorant of the true state of affairs of this nation.  For the rest of the valley, I hope people are mentally prepared to make hard decisions and follow their leaders.  I expect that a majority will not and will perish with the wicked when the time is right.

I will leave it at that.  All I can say is that I have never been to such an amazing place as Southern California.  Everything I have seen to this point pales in comparison.  I can see why people are drawn to it.