Week 38 (for 2 people)

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 20116

Food Storage: wheat

Red wheat is slightly less expensive than white wheat. 

If you can pick it up locally, you'll pay about $16.50 for a case of red wheat, $18 for white wheat. If you need it shipped, you can find the link here: Provident Living Red Wheat / White Wheat. This is on the Items of the Month order form.  

Family Gear Box: 

Mirror (non-shatter), magnesium fire starter, books to read. Be sure to include the scriptures.

Family Preparedness: 

Purchase emergency ladders for upper-floor windows. If this is going in a child's room - instruct on how to use it. This is the ladder we have from Amazon. (<-- Click)

Spiritual Preparedness:

     Letter from the First Presidency

The following letter, dated 20 January 2002, was sent to priesthood leaders. It can be found printed in the April 2003 Liahona. 

“Priesthood and Relief Society leaders should teach the importance of home storage and securing a financial reserve. These principles may be taught in ward councils or on a fifth Sunday in priesthood and Relief Society meetings.

“Church members can begin their home storage by storing the basic foods that would be required to keep them alive if they did not have anything else to eat. Depending on where members live, those basics might include water, wheat or other grains, legumes, salt, honey or sugar, powdered milk, and cooking oil. … When members have stored enough of these essentials to meet the needs of their family for one year, they may decide to add other items that they are accustomed to using day to day.

“Some members do not have the money or space for such storage, and some are prohibited by law from storing a year’s supply of food. These members should store as much as their circumstances allow. Families who do not have the resources to acquire a year’s supply can begin their storage by obtaining supplies to last for a few months. Members should be prudent and not panic or go to extremes in this effort. Through careful planning, most Church members can, over time, establish both a financial reserve and a year’s supply of essentials.”