Journal of Secret Combinations -- for LDS/Mormon/The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

In addition to earthquakes that have recently occurred around the world, we are seeing severe weather.   Last week what they are calling a Super Typhoon hit Guam; winds in excess of 150 mph slammed the island.  As I write a major hurricane is developing in the Atlantic east of the Carolinas and Florida.  And  we can't forget the two major hurricanes that hit Florida a few weeks apart two years ago in 2024:  hurricanes Helene and Milton that did so much damage and caused major flooding west of Tampa in Pinellas county.  And hurricane Ian that leveled Fort Myers in 2022. On Friday, July 10, 2026, I was working at the St. Petersburg-Clearwater airport (PIE) and the weather was cloudy but normal.  Then someone said they were going to shut down the airport as a major storm was approaching.  Looking to the east you could see it rolling in fast.  I immediately called my wife, Ivonne, to warn her.  Just 15-20 minutes later, large and dark c...

One of the signs of the true gospel of Jesus Christ are the gifts of the Spirit.  These spiritual gifts  always exist when His true gospel is on the earth and gone when it is not.  This is evidence of the great apostasy 1700-2000 years ago when these gifts disappeared from the earth. Two of the gifts mentioned in D&C 46 are the Gift of Knowledge and the Gift of Wisdom.  At the risk of sounding immodest, I will explain what that means in my own life as I believe I have the gift of knowledge.  I like to joke that if you want knowledge, you came to the right place; but if you want wisdom, you'll have to go somewhere else. In my case, the gift of knowledge means I have:   an analytical mind the ability to read fast and comprehend what I'm reading the ability to remember long-term much of what I've read (but unfortunately not everything) the ability to synthesize large amounts of information to discern the big picture, rather than getting lost in all th...