I've told the story of the LM from my mission who asked me to marry her less than a month after I got home; I don't know what number I was on her list, but she was working her way down at least a mental list. She'd received a revelation that she was to be married before the month was out. Yep, ghawd had caused her bosom to burn with the knowledge that she was to be temple married before 30 days had passed. But he didn't give her a name!! Since ghawd hadn't revealed any of this to me, and because she wasn't going to waste any more time with me if I wasn't the one, that was our first and last date. (I did make a counter-proposal, that we continue to see each other and then we'd likely get married at the end of the school year... But her revelation was much too specific for her to consider this.)
And no, she did not fulfill her revelation.
My senior year in HS, one of the clerical staff in the office was very nice young lady who was the oldest daughter of a family in the ward. She'd served a mission, so we kind of held her in a combination of awe and compassion. She was at LEAST 25, and not married!!!!) But then she met a guy from another ward and I don't know any romantic details regarding the progression of their relationship, but I do know that they were dating, when ... a guy from yet a different ward told her that he'd received a revelation that he and she were going to be wed, that the two of them knew each other in the pre-existence and had agreed to this, as evidenced by their being born and raised in the same town, as BIC. Now I got all this third of fourth hand, but we all gossiply marveled over the situation. We didn't have video games back then, so we took our amusement where we could find it. We heard that the revelation guy was pestering the girl and her family and trying to get the 'authorities' involved so that she would fast and pray and learn the 'truth'. I also recall that somewhere along the line there, we got a lesson in priesthood about false revelations. I didn't know it until years later, but she married the first guy and he eventually was an MP in one of the South Pacific missions.
In both instances, being TBM, I found nothing unusual about being told that ghawd had revealed future events. And then when I found out that they didn't come true, it didn't bother me. A completely 'heads I win, tails you lose' situation!! It's proof ghawd exists if it comes to pass and only proves you didn't hear Him correclty if it doesn't.
Got any stories about personal revelations gone awry? Got photos to go with the stories?
Not really a "Romantic Revelation", but a couple of years before my dh and I were an item, we had gone on a group date to an amusement park in So. Cal. that is now closed. After a several hour drive, we stopped at his home to drop off his brother, who was also on this date. I asked to please let me come in so I could relieve myself. He told me that I couldn't go in because his parents had just gotten home from the hospital (one had a heart attack, one about died because of high blood sugars) and the house was a mess.
I heard a small voice tell me that I would see them in worse states, but I didn't think I should share that.
Funny part is, yes. I've seen them in far worse states! Of course... we got married!
As for revelations that never happened?
I was sitting in a general conference in 1984 and thought I was being told that one day I would be the Church General Relief Society President.
I've served every calling in RS since then, but moving to UT and fulfilling that revelation will probably NEVER happen!
Not really a "Romantic Revelation", but a couple of years before my dh and I were an item, we had gone on a group date to an amusement park in So. Cal. that is now closed. After a several hour drive, we stopped at his home to drop off his brother, who was also on this date. I asked to please let me come in so I could relieve myself. He told me that I couldn't go in because his parents had just gotten home from the hospital (one had a heart attack, one about died because of high blood sugars) and the house was a mess.
I heard a small voice tell me that I would see them in worse states, but I didn't think I should share that.
Funny part is, yes. I've seen them in far worse states! Of course... we got married!
As for revelations that never happened?
I was sitting in a general conference in 1984 and thought I was being told that one day I would be the Church General Relief Society President.
I've served every calling in RS since then, but moving to UT and fulfilling that revelation will probably NEVER happen!
" Marineland was best known for its performing Orcas or 'killer whales'. It was also noteworthy for its Baja Reef concept, a first-of-its-kind swim-through aquarium featuring a wide array of sea life. Visitors could enter the winding aquarium wearing a swim mask and snorkel and swim with the fishes and sharks."
Not really a "Romantic Revelation", but a couple of years before my dh and I were an item, we had gone on a group date to an amusement park in So. Cal. that is now closed. After a several hour drive, we stopped at his home to drop off his brother, who was also on this date. I asked to please let me come in so I could relieve myself. He told me that I couldn't go in because his parents had just gotten home from the hospital (one had a heart attack, one about died because of high blood sugars) and the house was a mess.
I heard a small voice tell me that I would see them in worse states, but I didn't think I should share that.
Funny part is, yes. I've seen them in far worse states! Of course... we got married!
As for revelations that never happened?
I was sitting in a general conference in 1984 and thought I was being told that one day I would be the Church General Relief Society President.
I've served every calling in RS since then, but moving to UT and fulfilling that revelation will probably NEVER happen!
" Marineland was best known for its performing Orcas or 'killer whales'. It was also noteworthy for its Baja Reef concept, a first-of-its-kind swim-through aquarium featuring a wide array of sea life. Visitors could enter the winding aquarium wearing a swim mask and snorkel and swim with the fishes and sharks."
Did you swim with the fishes?
HEHE!
For the literal, nope... but yep, I've had a couple of NDE. Nope, I don't really like to talk about them.
And yeah, I got to help bury my FIL, took my MIL to the hospital when she fell and split her head open on the back porch (decision time, can she live alone?). I would say those were worst states of being.
Yep, it's happened plenty of times for me.
I was clinically depressed for a few years, and I got a "revelation" that a few days after my brother came home from his mission I would instantly feel WAY better. I did feel better after he came home, after a few months...gradually...through my own work.
I had a bunch of other little stuff that failed. The whole lost item thing was a funny thing to me. I was always told that if you lose something, just pray to god and you'll find it. It never worked for me, and whenever I did find something after praying, it was because I personally remembered where I put it. God's all powerful and the world has many problems, but your mormon, so he'll help you find your keys!
The funny thing is I wouldn't be alive without "divine revelation". My parents had three kids(and stopped there) and my dad had revelation that they needed to have me; my name already came with the revelation package. My dad wasn't really the controlling type either, which is the type that I usually see who get this type of "revelation". So I'm marginally younger than all my brothers and sisters, and a little out of place.
Tincan Hitman:
Yep, it's happened plenty of times for me.
I was clinically depressed for a few years, and I got a "revelation" that a few days after my brother came home from his mission I would instantly feel WAY better. I did feel better after he came home, after a few months...gradually...through my own work.
I had a bunch of other little stuff that failed. The whole lost item thing was a funny thing to me. I was always told that if you lose something, just pray to god and you'll find it. It never worked for me, and whenever I did find something after praying, it was because I personally remembered where I put it. God's all powerful and the world has many problems, but your mormon, so he'll help you find your keys!
The funny thing is I wouldn't be alive without "divine revelation". My parents had three kids(and stopped there) and my dad had revelation that they needed to have me; my name already came with the revelation package. My dad wasn't really the controlling type either, which is the type that I usually see who get this type of "revelation". So I'm marginally younger than all my brothers and sisters, and a little out of place.
This kind of revelation, I wouldn't have put much trust in. But....
My mother had a dream that a little girl needed a body, but didn't need to be "alive". Shortly later, she was pregnant, and everything was going well, until the very end. The doctors of the day determined that mom was going into pre-eclampsia and needed to get the baby out. They took pictures (x-rays then) and found out that there was a too small for dates girl. They told my mom the baby wouldn't survive. My mother was crushed. She had already lost one baby. She didn't think she could really loose another. But, she was resigned because of the dream she had. Still she begged and begged the Lord to "let this burden pass".
She got a blessing the night before the induction. In that blessing, she was told that the Lord had heard her pleas, and knew her health issues. That her induction the next day would go smoothly.
I guess it went smoothly. She was started on pit at 9 am. At 9:45 she delivered (by herself, no one would believe her) my 10 lb baby brother. He's a well known Lawyer for the Military now. So, even the secular doctors predicted wrong. Or, maybe the Lord did intervene?
But, my husband and I always had the feeling that a little girl was missing from our clan. We have her name. We knew her hair color. We knew a lot about her. HOWEVER.
We had our first 6 kids in 7 years (believe me, we were also trying different methods of birth control, and they failed us). I was tired. I didn't think I could handle any more. But, there was the little girl still haunting me. 3 years later, I gave birth to a son, baby #7. 4 years later, I gave birth to another son, baby #8. 5 years after that, another son, baby #9. I REFUSE to try again. I AM DONE. I WAS DONE WITH 4. I was OVERWHELMED with 6. I cried with 7. I about went insane with 8. And number 9.. yeah, he did me in.
But, here's the highlighed thought provoction. My husband was/is controlling. At times we both are. So, maybe that had something to do with it. But to be honest, I think it was more that "revelation"/feeling.
And, my trailers, the first one especially, have all been included in the "group". It was the decision of the 'olders'. The 'olders' wanted to be really involved in the 'youngers' lives. As a mom, it's been interesting. Especially as I've watched the parenting skills they were developing, and yet felt that it was MY responsibility - not theirs - to raise these kids.
My youngest's teacher at school crossed a line, IMO, but I was proud of my littlest one. She asked him if he ever felt left out in such a big family. He gave her a quizzical look, and said, "Mrs. H, I am loved, and I have lots of brothers and sisters, I am never alone, and I ALWAYS have someone to play with." (She was a long-time sub, and didn't yet realize I was his mom sitting at the back of the class doing support work)
I am sorry that you've felt a little out of place. And I hope this doesn't come across as an attack, because I just am curious of the family dynamics that a child could feel so out of place. Obviously, it must be a "norm" if the teacher questioned my youngest about it.
Haha thanks for the reply. I don't really feel emotionally out of place, just a little out of place when it comes to age. Like my siblings are in high school and I'm still the only one in elementary school. It's just a little thing really.
