WHAT’S YOUR STORY?
AND WOULD YOU BE WILLING TO SHARE IT?
I may, or may not, be able to extend an immediate opportunity to be interviewed about the way or ways that USING your food storage has blessed your life. So if you’ve been implementing the process of storing and using both long term and three month supply items, combined with fresh ingredients so that your family enjoys what you serve, NOW is your chance to speak up. Please share YOUR story as a comment and then send me information on how I may contact you. I’m not 100% sure this opportunity is going to actually materialize but I’m gathering volunteers just in case.
The way we roll:)
August 31st, 2012 at 8:33 am
I love sharing my testimony of food storage/provident living because I have personally been so blessed by implimenting the practice of such. In fact I have been blessed so richly that as a wedding gift I give a box (six shiny silver cans to be exact) of food storage to the newly married couple along with an awesome book on how to use the food stored inside each can. Wheat, rice, black beans (because those are our favorite), macaroni, potato flakes and oatmeal (if nothing else works eat oatmeal). What better way to help the newly marrieds than by providing them the basic fundamentals for a successfull food storage program.
By the way Liesa, Brandon said “Do it, do it”!!!!! He is such a good little cheerleader. xo
August 31st, 2012 at 9:56 am
Thank you as always Kris! Your name has been submitted:)
September 5th, 2012 at 7:59 am
Big big thank you to everyone that said they could and would help with this effort. They have your names and numbers and will make contact as needed. I hope very much that you’ll hear from them, very soon!
September 8th, 2012 at 7:15 pm
Food storage interest is what brought to the church in 1981. Now my kids are grown, and the three daughters are married. I gave each one a preparedeness manual, I put together for each one (our son has one but he doesn’t know it, now if he would find that girl!) The three hava a testimony of preparedness, in varying degrees, but they are doing it. I keep storing, you just can’t stop! I try to use those long term items routinely, (like tomorrow’s TVP taco salsa dish for the young adult potluck tomorrow night). I too give a booklet to newly weds along with food storage items routinely!
September 9th, 2012 at 7:50 pm
Thank you Dee! Brilliant example and thank you for sharing your testimony!
September 16th, 2012 at 4:33 pm
Of course…Food Storage is my joy. It has helped our family so many times that i cannot even count them all! When you count being out of work, moving from state to state, health issues…learning the basics of provident living has strenthened my testimony of God’s love for all of us.
Laura Carpenter, Mesa AZ
September 21st, 2012 at 10:21 pm
So glad to hear from you Laura! I couldn’t agree more:) Please take care!
October 13th, 2012 at 8:50 pm
Liesa
I’ve probably shared my testimony of food storage with you before, but I am always happy to share again to ANYONE who cares to listen.
Having food storage puts you in a position to be more Christ-like. When you are prepared, you are prepared to share. I believe that when it comes down to it that’s what this is about. Being grateful for what we have and then giving to others in remembrance of Our Savior. And you don’t have to have lots of money to start preparing. You can start right now. Several years ago, my aunt who lives outside of Seattle decided to take the food storage council to heart. She didn’t have a lot of money to invest in food storage, but she did start storing water. She saved juice and soda bottles, cleaned them out and stored her water. Her friends and neighbors thought that she was insane. The Seattle area is never going to have a drought, she was never going to need the water that she was storing. Then one winter they had a very hard freeze and every one of her neighbors’ water pipes broke. Because she had water stored she was able to share with them and help them in their crisis. (And it helped that her water pipes happened to not break.) That’s just one example, there are hundreds. When you have a little set aside it makes it easier to give when canned food is collected for the needy, or when a neighbor is ill and can use a pot of chicken soup. When you have food storage you are prepared to literally feed His sheep.
October 15th, 2012 at 12:09 pm
I have not found a commandment that I would actually EAT my food storage. I will admit that I have not researched everything ever written about food storage. All I know is that I am commanded to be prepared. I have never had to fully rely on my storage to feed my family although we do eat from it routinely to rotate the stock. The majority of times that I have accessed my food storage has been to quickly prepare meals in times of others’ need or to help others replenish when they have lost their stores. There have been occasions where I’ve used my food storage to drastically reduce a few weeks’ worth of expenses to meet other needs. I am grateful that my parents practiced food storage and production and shared their knowledge with me.
October 15th, 2012 at 2:13 pm
Beautifully said Heather! Thank you so much for sharing! Your testimony brought tears to my eyes. I know you leave what you feel in your heart. Thank you.
I’m preparing to teach next Sunday and the lesson is #20 Temporal Salvation for Ourselves and Others. “If we follow the Lord’s counsel, we are better able to meet our own temporal needs and help those in need around us.” Man! I hope everyone will read this lesson. If you don’t have a book, just Google Temporal Salvation for Ourselves and Others. Super easy and it’s a quick read. Very very interesting to review the historical accounts of prophetic counsel and the Church response to world and national needs during both the Great Depression and WW II.
When President Truman asked,”…How long will it take you to get this ready?” President Smith surprised him by replying:”It’s all ready…We have been building elevators and filling them with grain, and increasing our flocks and our herds, and now what we need is the cars and the ships in order to send considerable food, clothing and bedding to the people of Europe who are in distress. We have an organization in the Church [the Relief Society] that has over two thousand homemade quilts ready.” (Following is the last bit quoting from President Smith) “…I believe our Heavenly Father is giving us our opportunity for development…We will discover now whether the love the Savior said should be in our hearts is among us.”
October 15th, 2012 at 2:32 pm
Thank you Jerri!!! Your testimony/”all I know” reminds me of prophetic counsel from the prophet, Spencer W. Kimball (about 30 + years ago)
“Preparedness, when properly pursued, is a way of life, not a sudden spectacular program. We could refer to all the components of personal and family preparedness, not in relation to holocaust or disaster, but in cultivating a life-style that is on a day-to-day basis its own reward.” Like you, I’ve experienced how food storage blesses my life on a day-to-day basis. It’s the blessing that follows when we obey the commandment to be prepared.
I’m sure you’ve read the latest published word from the Church, signed by The First Presidency, found in the All Is Safely Gathered In pamphlet. Dear Brothers and sisters: Our Heavenly Father created this beautiful earth, with all its abundance, for our benefit and use. His purpose is to proved for our needs as we walk in faith and obedience, He has lovingly commanded us to “prepare every needful thing” (see D&C 109:8) so that, should adversity come, we may care for ourselves and our neighbors and support bishops as they care for others.
I believe that food storage is all about opportunity. The opportunity for a better life right now, with better options, plus the opportunity to take part in the Lord’s “saving” work. If we are prepared we have the opportunity to be part of the “first responders” in any given situation. We go to church because we want to learn how to become like the Savior. With food storage to share we have the opportunity to practice what He taught, in the spiritual and temporal application of “Feed my sheep.”