The Wall Street Journal reported a Latter-day Saint ’21st-century reckoning’. That's not what I see

As thousands of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints lined up to enter a religious meeting in the Amway Center in Orlando, Florida , on June 9, 2019, a sudden and violent rainstorm erupted. But the line did not disperse. Those waiting did their best to cover up with jackets, purses and other objects, and then — soaked to the skin — joined a congregation of 15,500 to hear President Russell M. Nelson speak.

It was a scene I had seen before and would see again.

Just two weeks earlier on May 23, 2019, in Nuku‘alofa, Tonga , some 10,000 Latter-day Saints sat for four hours under wet and windy skies on the Liahona High School sports fields for a similar meeting. But, in spite of the rain, they did not move from their seats — waiting to be part of a historic religious