52 Weeks to Family Preparedness for Two
Week 19
Our Church Leaders have asked us to make a concerted effort to obtain our year’s supply of food and other essentials. Here are suggestions for a 52 week plan to help us all achieve this. Amounts given are for two people. Adjust the quantities you purchase for the number of family members in your home. The items will change weekly, so keep up with us and take the challenge to become Prepared.
Food Storage and Preparedness Challenge Of The Week:
Food Storage Purchase 8 ½ lbs. Non-Fat Dry Milk
Extra Item Purchase 1 lbs. of Yeast, Baking Soda, and Baking Powder
Car Kit Flashlight w/extra batteries, spot light, chemical light stick, road hazard sign, and road flares.
Family Preparation E.D.I.T.H. stands for Exit Drills In The Home. Regularly have a fire drill to practice exiting the house. Plan where to meet outside the home and what to do next. Test smoke alarms to make sure they work and so everyone knows what they sound like.
Spiritual Preparedness Read “Come to the Temple” by Boyd K. Packer in the Oct. 2007 Ensign. Plan to attend regularly.
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We are responsible for our own social, emotional, spiritual, physical, and economic well-being. The Church and its members are commanded by the Lord to be self-reliant and independent. D&C 78:13–14 No true Latter-day Saint, while physically or emotionally able, will voluntarily shift the burden of his own or his family’s well-being to someone else. No amount of philosophizing, excuses, or rationalizing will ever change the fundamental need for self-reliance. -Spencer W. Kimball
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The Lord has urged that his people save for the rainy days, prepare for the difficult times, and put away for emergencies, a year’s supply or more of bare necessities so that when comes the flood, the earthquake, the famine, the hurricane, the storms of life, our families can be sustained through the dark days.
We encourage you to grow all the food that you feasibly can on your own property. Berry bushes, grapevines, fruit trees—plant them if your climate is right for their growth. Grow vegetables and eat them from your own yard. Even those residing in apartments or condominiums can generally grow a little food in pots and planters. Study the best methods of providing your own foods. Make your garden as neat and attractive as well as productive. If there are children in your home, involve them in the process with assigned responsibilities.
We encourage families to have on hand this year’s supply; and we say it over and over and over and repeat over and over the scripture of the Lord where He says, “Why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?” [Luke 6:46.] How empty it is as they put their spirituality, so-called, into action and call him by his important names, but fail to do the things which he says.
As we become more affluent and our bank accounts enlarge, there comes a feeling of security, and we feel sometimes that we do not need the supply that has been suggested by the Brethren. … We must remember that conditions could change and a year’s supply of basic commodities could be very much appreciated by us or others. So we would do well to listen to what we have been told and to follow it explicitly.
We encourage you to grow all the food that you feasibly can on your own property. Berry bushes, grapevines, fruit trees—plant them if your climate is right for their growth. Grow vegetables and eat them from your own yard. Even those residing in apartments or condominiums can generally grow a little food in pots and planters. Study the best methods of providing your own foods. Make your garden as neat and attractive as well as productive. If there are children in your home, involve them in the process with assigned responsibilities.
We encourage families to have on hand this year’s supply; and we say it over and over and over and repeat over and over the scripture of the Lord where He says, “Why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?” [Luke 6:46.] How empty it is as they put their spirituality, so-called, into action and call him by his important names, but fail to do the things which he says.
As we become more affluent and our bank accounts enlarge, there comes a feeling of security, and we feel sometimes that we do not need the supply that has been suggested by the Brethren. … We must remember that conditions could change and a year’s supply of basic commodities could be very much appreciated by us or others. So we would do well to listen to what we have been told and to follow it explicitly.
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