Source Report Card
Chapter 33: Fireside Folklore (Famine, Gold, Half the Church, and the Hitchhiker)
| Source | Who | When | Chain | Rung | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Nephi 13:42; 14:10-12; 3 Nephi 20:15-16; 21:12, 22; 28:7; D&C 1:16; 45:30-31, 57; 88:84, 88-89; 90:9; Isaiah 60:8; Nahum 1:1; Revelation 18:11-17 | Scripture | Various | 1st-hand | 1 | A+ |
| All Is Safely Gathered In: Family Home Storage | The First Presidency | 2007 | 1st-hand | 2 | A |
| Gospel Topics, "Food Storage" | The Church | Current | 1st-hand | 2 | A |
| Chapter heading, Nahum 2 | The Church (scripture study helps) | Current edition | 1st-hand | 2 | A |
| Gospel Principles, ch. 45 | The Church | Current | 1st-hand | 2 | A |
| "Preparation for the Second Coming" | Dallin H. Oaks (then Quorum of the Twelve; now Church President) | April 2004 | 1st-hand | 3 | A |
| "Admonitions for the Priesthood of God" | Harold B. Lee (Church President) | October 1972 | 1st-hand | 3 | A |
| "Prepare for the Days of Tribulation" (year's supply) | Ezra Taft Benson (then President of the Twelve) | October 1980 | 1st-hand | 3 | A |
| "We Believe in Prophecy," BYU devotional (Isaiah 60:8) | LeGrand Richards (then Quorum of the Twelve) | 1978 | 1st-hand | 4 | B |
| Mormonism Unveiled (young lion) | Parley P. Pratt (then Quorum of the Twelve) | 1838 | 1st-hand | 4 | B (see Chs. 9 and 15) |
| Journal of Discourses vols. 1, 4, 8 (gold vs. wheat, June 5, 1853; grain; famine) | Brigham Young (Church President) | 1853-1860 | 2nd-hand | 4 | C |
| Joseph Smith journal kept by Willard Richards, 2 April 1843 ("probably England") | Orson Hyde (then Quorum of the Twelve) interpreting a dream Joseph Smith told; notes by Willard Richards (apostle) | 1843 | 2nd-hand | 4 | C |
| Conference Report, Oct. 1930, pp. 58-59 (no recorder named) | Heber C. Kimball (then First Counselor in the First Presidency), read by J. Golden Kimball (First Council of the Seventy) | Claimed 1868, read 1930 | 3rd-hand | 5 | F (see next row) |
| "Prophetic Sayings of Heber C. Kimball to Sister Amanda H. Wilcox," Deseret News, May 23, 1931 | Amanda H. Wilcox (member) | Claimed 1868; likely after 1893 | 3rd-hand | 5 | F (dropped from D: written after what it predicts) |
| "A Dream," The Contributor 15 (purple spot) | Charles D. Evans | Aug. 1894 | 1st-hand (original found) | 6 | D |
| Hitchhiker, in William A. Wilson, Dialogue 21:3 (1988) | Unnamed "friend of a friend" | 1950s-1980s | Untraceable | 6 | F |
| "5% will be ready"; Nahum headlights | No traceable source found | Modern | Untraceable | 6 | F |
| White Horse Prophecy (banks, invaders, the Czar) | Claimed Edwin Rushton | Claimed 1843; likely written after 1890 (Penrod); earliest dated copy 1902 | 3rd-hand | 6 | ✖ Disavowed |
| 1877 "desolating sickness" vision | Anonymous | 1877-78 | Untraceable | 6 | ✖ Disavowed |