On the Day of Pentecost, one of the ways the Holy Ghost witnessed to the Apostles was "a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind." Acts 2:2. On March 27, 1836 at the dedication of the Kirtland Temple, Joseph Smith, Jr., Oliver Cowdery, and George A. Smith all reported a mighty rushing wind among other remarkable spiritual outpourings. Joseph Smith,
History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints edited by B.H. Roberts (Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 1932-1951), 2:428. Leonard J. Arrington, "Oliver Cowdery's Kirtland Ohio 'Sketch Book,'"
BYU Studies, Volume 12:4, (Summer 1972), 426.
Journal of Discourses, 26 vols. (London: Latter-day Saints Book Depot, 1854-1886), 11:10. On June 1, 1978 in the fourth floor council room of the Salt Lake Temple, President Spencer W. Kimball received the revelation extending the priesthood to all worthy males. President Kimball's counselors and ten of the members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles were in the room at the time. Many later described the event as a spiritual outpouring more intense than anything they had previously experienced. Elder L. Tom Perry said he "felt something like the rushing of wind." Edward L. Kimball, "Spencer W. Kimball and the Revelation on Priesthood,"
BYU Studies, Volume 47:2 (2008), 57.
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On Sunday, June 19, 2011 in the American Fork 29th Ward Sacrament Meeting, I was sustained as the new Bishop of the Ward. As I arose when the Stake President called my name, a powerful spiritual wave flowed over me like a rushing wind. I heard a whooshing sound and felt air on my face. The spiritual feeling coursing through me was so intense that I lost my composure and began to weep. I had to dry my eyes more than once as I walked up to take my place on the stand. I have been blessed over the years with a number of significant spiritual wtinesses, but I had never before experienced this particular manifestation of the Holy Ghost.
