Did you know that you could get 45 # buckets of wheat at the Liahona bookstore by the Atlanta Temple?
Right now they are 10% off. Info is here.
Friday, September 19, 2008
Friday, September 12, 2008
Spiritual Principles of Preparing "Every Needful Thing"
This is from an article forwarded to me by some smart ladies ;)
Here is some spiritual enlightenment that will remind us about the principles of the gospel regarding food storage and our temporal preparation. I am grateful for the words of the prophets that help me feel inspired, refocused and gain a little more insight on the commandments.
Here is some spiritual enlightenment that will remind us about the principles of the gospel regarding food storage and our temporal preparation. I am grateful for the words of the prophets that help me feel inspired, refocused and gain a little more insight on the commandments.
Monday, September 8, 2008
Batteries
CVS has their store brand batteries on sale buy 1 get 1 free. Check your flashlights and weather radios and then stock up. Sale is good from 9/7 - 9/13.
Honeyville Grains
I just wanted to highlight a company where you can get wheat and lots of other really great products for your food storage. This company was brought to my attention for two reasons. First, you can get products such as rice and almond flour in bulk, for those with specific needs such as gluten and wheat allergies. Secondly, they offer a $4.49 flat shipping fee for your entire order, no matter how much you order. Take a minute and check out their products here.
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Sharpsburg Ward Emergency Prep. Blog
Welcome to our ward Emergency Preparedness and Food Storage Blog! I hope you use this site to get information and ideas for you and your family's preparedness needs. Jen Schaefer has put a lot of information on this site while she served as Emergency Preparedness Coordinator for the Peachtree City Ward so go back through the entries and read up and come back often for more.
The Church put out an article a few weeks ago encouraging members using blogs, and social networking sites to share their food storage and emergency prep. efforts. You can read it here.
The Church put out an article a few weeks ago encouraging members using blogs, and social networking sites to share their food storage and emergency prep. efforts. You can read it here.
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Email from Lorna Boot
I received this email from Lorna Boot. Her sister attended a meeting where a brother discussed food storage. I thought the information was invaluable.
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Tri Stake Fireside in West Lehi, UT
Speaker Tim Woolf
Emergency Preparedness Specialist
4483 W.Carriage
Cedar Hill, UT 84062
Cell 801 636 1749
Email - timberwoolf@hotmail.com
June 8, 2008
These are my notes.
It used to be just the church that was interested in food storage. The Dept of Homeland Security is now encouraging everyone to have a years supply of food. Now it is the Saints who represent 5% of interest and 95%interest comes from outsiders. They are just copying the LDS food storage plan.
A bushel of wheat cost $3.00 two years ago. Now it cost $25. They say they will not take $68 a bushel for winter wheat harvest coming up because the World is catching up with the LDS demand for it.
WATER, the most important thing you can store is CLEAN water. 3 days without it and you die. The church suggests ONLY THE MINIMUM on everything. 1 gallon per person for 14 days. He said storage in plastic bottles is not a good storage method. After a time it leaches the flavor around it into the water. If you store it on the floor it will taste like cement floor. In the garage it will taste like lawn mower. If bottled water in the trunk of the car it will taste like tires. He said, If you don't rotate it every 3 months it will taste bad. He said it is worth the time and expense to invest in NEW containers. 5 gallon jugs, if weight is your thing or 55 gallon drums, but put them where they are going to stay. I figured out you can roll them easily, however. He said each person can last 2 weeks on a blue 55 gallon barrel. (that doesn't sound right, maybe it was his family could last 2 weeks.) Water bottles are nice but take in bad flavors as well and need to be rotated within a year. I also heard that the plastic can become dangerous if left in Hot temperature very long, so be careful about leaving them in your hot car. At the other fireside Bishop Tolman set up, the man from the Katrina cleanup disaster said water was a big issue. People couldn't get clean water for 3 days.
Then he made a good point. The Provo River water was tested and found that it will make you good and sick in about 1 and ½ days...very sick. If you think you can boil your water you will have to have it at a rolling boil for 22 minutes and that presents a FUEL problem.
He talked about filters. They are very slow and will only do for 2 people at 25$ = $2500 for a year. It is costly
He held up a salt zapper stick that works very well but only for 45 days and not good for a long duration.
He said all water has Algae in it and if you store it in light the algae will grow. Not appetizing but algae won't hurt you.
Then he got to the old time favorite BLEACH drops. He said it is 70 years out of date. If you store your water for over a year all the bleach has leached out and the water is no good. The dyes and chemicals left can cause intestinal problems.
HE RECOMMENDED YOU SPEND THE $15 FOR STRAIGHT CLORINE CALLED SPA, POOL AND SPA SANITIZER OR SOME OTHER SIMILAR PRODUCT, WITH 97% SODIUM DLCHOROETRIONE -S-triazin. IT IS STAIGHT CLORINE AND YOU ONLY NEED ¼ TO 1/8 TEASPOON TO SANITIZE A 55 GALLON DRUM OF WATER AND IT DOESN'T LEACH OUT AND IT DOESN'T HURT YOU AND IT LAST INDEFINITELY. IF YOU WANT TO GET RID OF IT BEFOFE YOU DRINK IT LEAVE THE CAP OFF FOR 24 HOURS. NEED TO LET IT SIT FOR 24 HOURS BEFORE YOU DRINK IT ANYWAY.
To fortify his point about clean drinking water he said, our systems will NOT tolerate dirty water.
He talked of a hurricane that was so strong it caused mud slides that wiped our whole villages. 9000 people were killed . But 35,000 died of dirty water shortly after that.
He said the second most important thing to prepare for is HEAT. If disaster strikes in the winter, say an earthquake it probably will shatter your windows. HE RECOMMENDED YOU BUY ROLLS OF LIGHT PLASTIC (6 MIL). DARK PLASTIC LEAVES YOU WITH A LIGHTING PROBLEM. SO BUY THE LIGHT. HERE WHERE IT IS SO WINDY YOU NEED MORE. Light and wind can cause it to be brittle. Don't take it down, just keep putting up layers and eventually it will keep. Put it on the inside and on the outside of windows.
His favorite heating device is KEROSENE. He said, don't buy propane or butane it smells and can explode. HE RECOMMENDED NOTHING SHORT OF 23000 'BTU WITH A CUT OFF VALVE INCASE IT IS BUMPED, WITH NOTHING SHORT OF 99.9 EFFICIENTCY TO AVOID FUMES. If a Mfg says the heater will heat 2000 Sq Ft of Space... double that... they are very conservative under the Law. He was asked to live in his house with kerosene for one year. They capped off his furnace and he was as comfortable with the Kerosene as his old system. He said, don't skimp on the cost. This is essential in UTAH WINTERS.
If you try to use an outdoor BBQ indoors it will take a day or two before the Carbon Monoxide will kill you.
He said if we go to war with IRAN as predicted the cost of kerosene which is already high will go much higher and he RECOMMENDED THAT EVEN IF PRICE IS HIGH, NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY IT. ALL FUELS WILL GO UP. (My daughter in Highland, Utah told me Elder Boyd K. Packer popped into a recent Stake Conference and said NOW is the time to get your years supply. Just here say I know)
LIGHTING is the third thing that is important. He said, candles just don't cut it. He said. he would go crazy in the barges of Jared with no light. He said, the Lord doesn't want us to have to go through this thing uncomfortably and he does provide ways. But we have to take the time and a little expense to seek out the solutions. He said the solutions are not always to go back in time. You can suffer in comfort.
HE RECOMMENDED YOU USE ALL THE SAME FUEL. KEROSENE AGAIN if you go with kerosene lighting, go to Wal-Mart and by this odd looking bottle of CONENTRATED FUEL STABILIZER CALLED STABIL. It is a preservative that will keep kerosene for 15 to 20 years, otherwise it evaporates. You can't store kerosene on the floor or it will leach in the Moisture and ruin the kerosene. Put it on a pallet or even a towel will do.
If you have a way to recharge batteries that would be ideal but they only last 18 hours. Solar battery charger would be the thing to use, he said. You would have to use only one appliance or power tool at a time.
He said Solar generators are a good way to go at between $700 to $4000. But he said he would never buy a generator. He said, in time of need gasoline prices prohibit it's use. And they are gas hogs if you have to use it more than 2 days. He said to email him to get the names of good solar chargers and solar generators so you don't waste your money on junk.
FOOD. He held up a cup-o-soup and a no refrigeration Salisbury Steak package and MRE's. He said, buy for comfort for your 72 hour kits. You'll have enough stress going on. He said, we will always bounce back if we can buy TIME. So do as church recommends and have 90 days of food that you currently USE in your pantry. He said, keep it simple, not a huge garbage can on wheels...just simple.
Then he got me worried. He said the original recommendation of the church way back when was a 7 year supply. People couldn't do it...even the farmers had trouble with it so it went to a 3 year supply. I remember that. Then to a 2 year supply after the 2nd World War. Well we couldn't live it so they reduced it to 1 year supply but we should know that is only the bear necessity to keep alive.
He had the privilege of caring for an old church Patriarch as he was dying of cancer. This guy happen to be a war photographer and was given a lot of films to go in and photograph war concentration camps. After the war they said, do what you want with the film. He sent it home. It took him 25 years to get it all developed. He showed Bro. Woolf these photos. Woolf said it was unbelievable. These men were starving to death. He remembers one picture of a withered man holding a small loaf of bread. Then he said these men were rationed 375# of grain per person and some soup ration. He said, what these men were living on is about what the church is asking us to have for one year. So you can see what we will store will barely keep us alive.
Then he held up a small loaf of bread and then cut maybe ¼ of it off and held it up and said, this is what you would get per day...for the whole day on what you are asked to store. I can vouch for that when I tried living on a 55 gallon drum of wheat (400#). Feeding our family along with everything else we had...and even in hard times we had plenty. Well that drum was empty in little more than a month for our family. He said a years supply looks like endless amounts but it will barely get you through. I am surprised again at how quickly you can use up your food. We have gone through about 9 cans of instant powdered milk and about 6 cans of rolled oats for granola and mixing my milk ½ and ½ in just 6 months...and we have plenty of everything else to subsidize what we eat and drink.
WHEAT
He showed White wheat and red winter wheat and said the white wheat is good because it cooks up like white bread and causes only 10% diarrhea and would be a good transition to get your family on wheat. The church has no white wheat farms any more. White wheat won't last as long as red however.
He showed lentils and said, yea they get hard but if you get a pressure cooker you can soften them up in 15minutes.
He said there is a big difference between dehydrated and freeze dried foods. IF HE HAD THE MONEY HIS WHOLE FOOD STORAGE WOULD BE FREEZE DRIED BECAUSE IT HAS NO CHANGE IN TASTE OR NUTRITION.
The Church came out with an ABC soup mix with no flavor. It has ALL nutrients in it you need and stores in smaller area. No body liked it because the church forgot to tell them it was made with no flavor so you could add a variety of flavors as you cook it. They are going to try again with what they call Soup Starters.
Then he talked about, at what point will you break? Will you stop going to church...after a month with no bath? He suggested you find your breaking point and do something now to remedy it while you have the resources. He then showed us a little barrel clothes washer with a crank. Put smaller amounts of clothes in it a little laundry soap and water and turn it for 5 minutes and out come clean clothes and very dirty water. Works. He said, today our clothes are delicate compared to the pioneers and wouldn't hold up to a plunger in a bucket or wash board. They would fall apart. He also showed us a stand with a HOTMAN tank on it that hooked to a small green propane bottle. It will give you a hot 5 minute shower in 7 minutes. 21 small green propane bottles would give everyone in his family a shower every day.
He then showed us a taller bucket and lid. And said this is necessary for toileting. Buy 500 # 10 bags in a roll for liners. Bury them. Can buy chemicals for the smell etc.
He said read D&C 19:33 and said it tells the difference between Commandments and Council. With council there is no direct or obvious punishments, only natural consequences, but they are very important.
Stories he told to open with:
Pres/Elder Assay (was Tim's mission pres.) He would hold a pen above the table. Then says, "Articulate what will happen to the pen when I drop it. Then he drops it and asks again, articulate what happens when I drop the pen. Over and Over he asks the same question. That is how Heavenly Father knows what will happen way ahead of time.
He's been through it, created worlds.
700 year old building, have to either tear it down or replace oak pillars. Went out side and saw that the builders had planted oak saplings that were now tall and 700 years old ready to be used to replace the beams. Foresight on the part of the builders. Just like Heavenly Father, has foresight into our needs and councils us before hand.
In Thessalonians 5:2 it speaks of second coming as coming as a thief in the night. But if you go on it talks about us not being children of darkness but of light...."But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief....therefore let us not sleep , as do others: but let us watch and be sober."
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Tri Stake Fireside in West Lehi, UT
Speaker Tim Woolf
Emergency Preparedness Specialist
4483 W.Carriage
Cedar Hill, UT 84062
Cell 801 636 1749
Email - timberwoolf@hotmail.com
June 8, 2008
These are my notes.
It used to be just the church that was interested in food storage. The Dept of Homeland Security is now encouraging everyone to have a years supply of food. Now it is the Saints who represent 5% of interest and 95%interest comes from outsiders. They are just copying the LDS food storage plan.
A bushel of wheat cost $3.00 two years ago. Now it cost $25. They say they will not take $68 a bushel for winter wheat harvest coming up because the World is catching up with the LDS demand for it.
WATER, the most important thing you can store is CLEAN water. 3 days without it and you die. The church suggests ONLY THE MINIMUM on everything. 1 gallon per person for 14 days. He said storage in plastic bottles is not a good storage method. After a time it leaches the flavor around it into the water. If you store it on the floor it will taste like cement floor. In the garage it will taste like lawn mower. If bottled water in the trunk of the car it will taste like tires. He said, If you don't rotate it every 3 months it will taste bad. He said it is worth the time and expense to invest in NEW containers. 5 gallon jugs, if weight is your thing or 55 gallon drums, but put them where they are going to stay. I figured out you can roll them easily, however. He said each person can last 2 weeks on a blue 55 gallon barrel. (that doesn't sound right, maybe it was his family could last 2 weeks.) Water bottles are nice but take in bad flavors as well and need to be rotated within a year. I also heard that the plastic can become dangerous if left in Hot temperature very long, so be careful about leaving them in your hot car. At the other fireside Bishop Tolman set up, the man from the Katrina cleanup disaster said water was a big issue. People couldn't get clean water for 3 days.
Then he made a good point. The Provo River water was tested and found that it will make you good and sick in about 1 and ½ days...very sick. If you think you can boil your water you will have to have it at a rolling boil for 22 minutes and that presents a FUEL problem.
He talked about filters. They are very slow and will only do for 2 people at 25$ = $2500 for a year. It is costly
He held up a salt zapper stick that works very well but only for 45 days and not good for a long duration.
He said all water has Algae in it and if you store it in light the algae will grow. Not appetizing but algae won't hurt you.
Then he got to the old time favorite BLEACH drops. He said it is 70 years out of date. If you store your water for over a year all the bleach has leached out and the water is no good. The dyes and chemicals left can cause intestinal problems.
HE RECOMMENDED YOU SPEND THE $15 FOR STRAIGHT CLORINE CALLED SPA, POOL AND SPA SANITIZER OR SOME OTHER SIMILAR PRODUCT, WITH 97% SODIUM DLCHOROETRIONE -S-triazin. IT IS STAIGHT CLORINE AND YOU ONLY NEED ¼ TO 1/8 TEASPOON TO SANITIZE A 55 GALLON DRUM OF WATER AND IT DOESN'T LEACH OUT AND IT DOESN'T HURT YOU AND IT LAST INDEFINITELY. IF YOU WANT TO GET RID OF IT BEFOFE YOU DRINK IT LEAVE THE CAP OFF FOR 24 HOURS. NEED TO LET IT SIT FOR 24 HOURS BEFORE YOU DRINK IT ANYWAY.
To fortify his point about clean drinking water he said, our systems will NOT tolerate dirty water.
He talked of a hurricane that was so strong it caused mud slides that wiped our whole villages. 9000 people were killed . But 35,000 died of dirty water shortly after that.
He said the second most important thing to prepare for is HEAT. If disaster strikes in the winter, say an earthquake it probably will shatter your windows. HE RECOMMENDED YOU BUY ROLLS OF LIGHT PLASTIC (6 MIL). DARK PLASTIC LEAVES YOU WITH A LIGHTING PROBLEM. SO BUY THE LIGHT. HERE WHERE IT IS SO WINDY YOU NEED MORE. Light and wind can cause it to be brittle. Don't take it down, just keep putting up layers and eventually it will keep. Put it on the inside and on the outside of windows.
His favorite heating device is KEROSENE. He said, don't buy propane or butane it smells and can explode. HE RECOMMENDED NOTHING SHORT OF 23000 'BTU WITH A CUT OFF VALVE INCASE IT IS BUMPED, WITH NOTHING SHORT OF 99.9 EFFICIENTCY TO AVOID FUMES. If a Mfg says the heater will heat 2000 Sq Ft of Space... double that... they are very conservative under the Law. He was asked to live in his house with kerosene for one year. They capped off his furnace and he was as comfortable with the Kerosene as his old system. He said, don't skimp on the cost. This is essential in UTAH WINTERS.
If you try to use an outdoor BBQ indoors it will take a day or two before the Carbon Monoxide will kill you.
He said if we go to war with IRAN as predicted the cost of kerosene which is already high will go much higher and he RECOMMENDED THAT EVEN IF PRICE IS HIGH, NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY IT. ALL FUELS WILL GO UP. (My daughter in Highland, Utah told me Elder Boyd K. Packer popped into a recent Stake Conference and said NOW is the time to get your years supply. Just here say I know)
LIGHTING is the third thing that is important. He said, candles just don't cut it. He said. he would go crazy in the barges of Jared with no light. He said, the Lord doesn't want us to have to go through this thing uncomfortably and he does provide ways. But we have to take the time and a little expense to seek out the solutions. He said the solutions are not always to go back in time. You can suffer in comfort.
HE RECOMMENDED YOU USE ALL THE SAME FUEL. KEROSENE AGAIN if you go with kerosene lighting, go to Wal-Mart and by this odd looking bottle of CONENTRATED FUEL STABILIZER CALLED STABIL. It is a preservative that will keep kerosene for 15 to 20 years, otherwise it evaporates. You can't store kerosene on the floor or it will leach in the Moisture and ruin the kerosene. Put it on a pallet or even a towel will do.
If you have a way to recharge batteries that would be ideal but they only last 18 hours. Solar battery charger would be the thing to use, he said. You would have to use only one appliance or power tool at a time.
He said Solar generators are a good way to go at between $700 to $4000. But he said he would never buy a generator. He said, in time of need gasoline prices prohibit it's use. And they are gas hogs if you have to use it more than 2 days. He said to email him to get the names of good solar chargers and solar generators so you don't waste your money on junk.
FOOD. He held up a cup-o-soup and a no refrigeration Salisbury Steak package and MRE's. He said, buy for comfort for your 72 hour kits. You'll have enough stress going on. He said, we will always bounce back if we can buy TIME. So do as church recommends and have 90 days of food that you currently USE in your pantry. He said, keep it simple, not a huge garbage can on wheels...just simple.
Then he got me worried. He said the original recommendation of the church way back when was a 7 year supply. People couldn't do it...even the farmers had trouble with it so it went to a 3 year supply. I remember that. Then to a 2 year supply after the 2nd World War. Well we couldn't live it so they reduced it to 1 year supply but we should know that is only the bear necessity to keep alive.
He had the privilege of caring for an old church Patriarch as he was dying of cancer. This guy happen to be a war photographer and was given a lot of films to go in and photograph war concentration camps. After the war they said, do what you want with the film. He sent it home. It took him 25 years to get it all developed. He showed Bro. Woolf these photos. Woolf said it was unbelievable. These men were starving to death. He remembers one picture of a withered man holding a small loaf of bread. Then he said these men were rationed 375# of grain per person and some soup ration. He said, what these men were living on is about what the church is asking us to have for one year. So you can see what we will store will barely keep us alive.
Then he held up a small loaf of bread and then cut maybe ¼ of it off and held it up and said, this is what you would get per day...for the whole day on what you are asked to store. I can vouch for that when I tried living on a 55 gallon drum of wheat (400#). Feeding our family along with everything else we had...and even in hard times we had plenty. Well that drum was empty in little more than a month for our family. He said a years supply looks like endless amounts but it will barely get you through. I am surprised again at how quickly you can use up your food. We have gone through about 9 cans of instant powdered milk and about 6 cans of rolled oats for granola and mixing my milk ½ and ½ in just 6 months...and we have plenty of everything else to subsidize what we eat and drink.
WHEAT
He showed White wheat and red winter wheat and said the white wheat is good because it cooks up like white bread and causes only 10% diarrhea and would be a good transition to get your family on wheat. The church has no white wheat farms any more. White wheat won't last as long as red however.
He showed lentils and said, yea they get hard but if you get a pressure cooker you can soften them up in 15minutes.
He said there is a big difference between dehydrated and freeze dried foods. IF HE HAD THE MONEY HIS WHOLE FOOD STORAGE WOULD BE FREEZE DRIED BECAUSE IT HAS NO CHANGE IN TASTE OR NUTRITION.
The Church came out with an ABC soup mix with no flavor. It has ALL nutrients in it you need and stores in smaller area. No body liked it because the church forgot to tell them it was made with no flavor so you could add a variety of flavors as you cook it. They are going to try again with what they call Soup Starters.
Then he talked about, at what point will you break? Will you stop going to church...after a month with no bath? He suggested you find your breaking point and do something now to remedy it while you have the resources. He then showed us a little barrel clothes washer with a crank. Put smaller amounts of clothes in it a little laundry soap and water and turn it for 5 minutes and out come clean clothes and very dirty water. Works. He said, today our clothes are delicate compared to the pioneers and wouldn't hold up to a plunger in a bucket or wash board. They would fall apart. He also showed us a stand with a HOTMAN tank on it that hooked to a small green propane bottle. It will give you a hot 5 minute shower in 7 minutes. 21 small green propane bottles would give everyone in his family a shower every day.
He then showed us a taller bucket and lid. And said this is necessary for toileting. Buy 500 # 10 bags in a roll for liners. Bury them. Can buy chemicals for the smell etc.
He said read D&C 19:33 and said it tells the difference between Commandments and Council. With council there is no direct or obvious punishments, only natural consequences, but they are very important.
Stories he told to open with:
Pres/Elder Assay (was Tim's mission pres.) He would hold a pen above the table. Then says, "Articulate what will happen to the pen when I drop it. Then he drops it and asks again, articulate what happens when I drop the pen. Over and Over he asks the same question. That is how Heavenly Father knows what will happen way ahead of time.
He's been through it, created worlds.
700 year old building, have to either tear it down or replace oak pillars. Went out side and saw that the builders had planted oak saplings that were now tall and 700 years old ready to be used to replace the beams. Foresight on the part of the builders. Just like Heavenly Father, has foresight into our needs and councils us before hand.
In Thessalonians 5:2 it speaks of second coming as coming as a thief in the night. But if you go on it talks about us not being children of darkness but of light...."But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief....therefore let us not sleep , as do others: but let us watch and be sober."
Email from Sister Hanks in Utah
I received this email from Jacque Hanks, who received it from her mother-in-law. I thought it was very poignant and needed a place here on the blog.
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President Boyd K Packer's Recent Stake Conference Address Submitted by
Kelly Critchfield - Highland Utah South Stake, Orem, Utah
On April 26, 2008, President Packer, of the Quorum of the Twelve, showed up at the Highland Utah South Stake Conference. His remarks were sobering in light of the current events and warned of things that are about to come upon us.
He first called upon his secretary, who is from the stake, to share her testimony.
She quoted from D&C 68:6 and commented briefly on it. "Wherefore, be of good cheer, and do not fear, for I the Lord am with you, and will stand by you (the promise); and ye shall bear record of me, even Jesus Christ, that I am the Son of the living God, that I was, that I am, and that I am to come."
Then Elder Packer spoke about several matters and spoke frankly, but did so in a way so as to not cause alarm.
He spoke to these points:
1. The church is now larger in countries outside of North America
2. North America and Europe are no longer considered Christian regions or nations.
3. South of the equator and other 3rd world countries are more Christian, but very destitute.
He said the time has come when we may expect to see some very hard times. He mentioned how many of the last few generations since WWII have grown up in luxury and a time of plenty, but he had not. He was raised during the Great Depression. He talked about things that occurred during the depression such as; soup kitchens, vagabonds and hobos that traveled the train system seeking work and food, etc. Mostly honorable men without the prospects of jobs.
He encouraged the youth and their parents to learn to be thrifty. Then quoted one of the couplets that was popular during the 1930s and the Great Depression.
Use it up, wear it out.
Make it do, or do without.
He cautioned the youth about obeying their parents - Parents REALLY DO KNOW!
He was kindly but firm about:
- Respecting mothers
- Develop better eating habits using wholesome, healthy foods.
In his remarks about families, he said the Church is not, and will not be responsible for raising your children.
The Church programs will be different - he intimated that changes will occur soon or in the near future.
These changes he said would keep the Church on the right course and emphasized this point several times.
He said the Saints in the Third World countries will need the help of the Church and its members.
Notes from the Stake President/Bishops meeting that followed:
- Ramp up your food storage in a major way (the impression was that assistance would be needed for South American countries).
- Emphasis on 2 Nephi 32:9 (Pray always and not faint) - Consecrate efforts by asking for blessings.
- The status of the church with regards to food storage - 27% have
short term supply - 13% have long term supply
- Stake temple service will help us better weather the fallout of the storms that are ahead.
In March of 2003 he came to a stake conference in Midway, Utah, where he repeated a verse of scripture several times on Saturday night and Sunday morning. This was at the beginning of the Iraq war.
D&C 38:28-29 "I say unto you that the enemy in the secret chambers seeketh your lives.
Ye hear of wars in far countries, and you say that there will soon be great wars in far countries, but ye know not the hearts of men in your own land." Then quoted from verse 30: "If ye are prepared ye shall not fear."
He is trying to warn us and asking us to stand firm. To put your faith in the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve who are more aware of what's ahead.
Are you listening?
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President Boyd K Packer's Recent Stake Conference Address Submitted by
Kelly Critchfield - Highland Utah South Stake, Orem, Utah
On April 26, 2008, President Packer, of the Quorum of the Twelve, showed up at the Highland Utah South Stake Conference. His remarks were sobering in light of the current events and warned of things that are about to come upon us.
He first called upon his secretary, who is from the stake, to share her testimony.
She quoted from D&C 68:6 and commented briefly on it. "Wherefore, be of good cheer, and do not fear, for I the Lord am with you, and will stand by you (the promise); and ye shall bear record of me, even Jesus Christ, that I am the Son of the living God, that I was, that I am, and that I am to come."
Then Elder Packer spoke about several matters and spoke frankly, but did so in a way so as to not cause alarm.
He spoke to these points:
1. The church is now larger in countries outside of North America
2. North America and Europe are no longer considered Christian regions or nations.
3. South of the equator and other 3rd world countries are more Christian, but very destitute.
He said the time has come when we may expect to see some very hard times. He mentioned how many of the last few generations since WWII have grown up in luxury and a time of plenty, but he had not. He was raised during the Great Depression. He talked about things that occurred during the depression such as; soup kitchens, vagabonds and hobos that traveled the train system seeking work and food, etc. Mostly honorable men without the prospects of jobs.
He encouraged the youth and their parents to learn to be thrifty. Then quoted one of the couplets that was popular during the 1930s and the Great Depression.
Use it up, wear it out.
Make it do, or do without.
He cautioned the youth about obeying their parents - Parents REALLY DO KNOW!
He was kindly but firm about:
- Respecting mothers
- Develop better eating habits using wholesome, healthy foods.
In his remarks about families, he said the Church is not, and will not be responsible for raising your children.
The Church programs will be different - he intimated that changes will occur soon or in the near future.
These changes he said would keep the Church on the right course and emphasized this point several times.
He said the Saints in the Third World countries will need the help of the Church and its members.
Notes from the Stake President/Bishops meeting that followed:
- Ramp up your food storage in a major way (the impression was that assistance would be needed for South American countries).
- Emphasis on 2 Nephi 32:9 (Pray always and not faint) - Consecrate efforts by asking for blessings.
- The status of the church with regards to food storage - 27% have
short term supply - 13% have long term supply
- Stake temple service will help us better weather the fallout of the storms that are ahead.
In March of 2003 he came to a stake conference in Midway, Utah, where he repeated a verse of scripture several times on Saturday night and Sunday morning. This was at the beginning of the Iraq war.
D&C 38:28-29 "I say unto you that the enemy in the secret chambers seeketh your lives.
Ye hear of wars in far countries, and you say that there will soon be great wars in far countries, but ye know not the hearts of men in your own land." Then quoted from verse 30: "If ye are prepared ye shall not fear."
He is trying to warn us and asking us to stand firm. To put your faith in the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve who are more aware of what's ahead.
Are you listening?
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