PRIORITIES OF PREPAREDNESS

The big questions on everyone’s mind are where do I start, what do I do first, what is the most important?

Here are some top priorities as I see it.

Food including Wheat and grains, Water, Wheat Grinder (Electric and a Hand), Heavy Duty Dough Mixer, Medications and medical supplies, clothing, blankets, fuel if you are allowed or an All American Sun Oven.  

Weapons.  Some think that this is not needed, but if we get to the point where the dollar crashes and the economy goes down, those will be important.  You may have to protect your family and what you have in storage.  If things break down there may be mobs roaming the streets.  This is not wild.  Look at Europe.  It is coming here.  When? Unknown but possibly soon and that is not the time to try and prepare for the wolf will already be in the hen house.

Read what the Lord said through a prophet of the Lord:

ALMA 43: 45-47

45 Nevertheless, the Nephites were inspired by a better cause, for they were not fighting for monarchy nor power but they were fighting for their homes and their liberties, their wives and their children, and their all, yea, for their rites of worship and their church.

46 And they were doing that which they felt was the duty which they owed to their God; for the Lord had said unto them, and also unto their fathers, that: Inasmuch as ye are not guilty of the first offense, neither the second, ye shall not suffer yourselves to be slain by the hands of your enemies.

47 And again, the Lord has said that: Ye shall defend your families even unto bloodshed. Therefore for this cause were the Nephites contending with the Lamanites, to defend themselves, and their families, and their lands, their country, and their rights, and their religion.

If you pick up the book “Making the Best of Basics 12.5 Edition” handbook.  It will take you into much more detail in all areas of being self-reliant.  

FOOD:  No matter what else you have, if you do not have this, the rest will be useless.  Start by getting an extra weeks supply, then two, then a months, then two, then three, then do that 3 more times to accumulate a year supply.

If you can afford it, WITHOUT GOING INTO DEBT, you can buy a complete unit for a year for about $900.00.  This is a Basic Unit for one person.  There are more expensive ones with a better selection, but to sustain life, the basic unit will work.  These units are dehydrated food in cans or Freeze dried.  Freeze dried is lighter in weight but a little more expensive.

A note on Wheat.  This is the staff of life according to the Lord.

Red wheat, after ground up become darker wheat flour and becomes darker wheat bread (which I like the best).

White wheat grinds into white flour for white bread.

Wheat lasts for years.  Wheat has been taken out of the pyramids that are over 3000 years old and it is perfectly good today.  Why?  They were stored in a cool dark place as far as I could see.  Once you crack it to make flour, then it starts to deteriorate in nutritional value.  Don’t start eating a strict whole wheat diet.  Help your system to switch by using some white flour in it and gradually go to straight wheat.  You can make cracked wheat cereal.  Try to get use to your food storage, little by little BEFORE you have to use it strictly.  Be sure to replenish what you use.  Use a black marker for marking dates on items.

I cannot over emphasize the importance of the book I mentioned.

You don’t necessarily have to rotate these items.  They are usually good for 20 to 25 years, in sealed #10 cans and some bulk items in buckets.

GRINDERS AND MIXERS:  If wheat is involved, which is used for making bread, you will need a grinder and a heavy duty mixer for the dough.  These will be mostly electric, but if you hunt around you may come across some that can work on electric and by crank, if the electricity goes out.  If you cannot find one, you can buy Hand Grinders separately but you may have to make the dough by hand.  I was lucky; I found both grinder and mixer that can work both ways.  Look around. Some may be used.

Pick up other items to vary the diet and to make it enjoyable like peanut butter, jellies, spices, and other items that your family like and usually eat.  Those will have to be rotated, eating the oldest first so they won’t go bad.

WATER:  Water should be kept cool and covered over to keep it in the dark.  You can also use DARK containers.  Blue or Black, not clear. Bacteria grow in light.  If gotten from a good water source, it will keep for a year or two.  It can be disinfected by boiling if needed, or by using Clorox Regular, unscented bleach without soap additives or phosphates.  An example is 2 drops per quart if the water is clear, 4 drops if it is cloudy. For a gallon, 8 drops clear, 16 cloudy.  Use only the liquid, not powdered bleach.  Stir and let stand for an hour or more.  Bleach more than one year old, double the amount, more than two years old; it has lost its effectiveness.  Keep it rotated.

How much do you need?  About 1 gallon per day per each family member for two weeks.  With dehydrated items to reconstitute, you will need more.  Then there is washing, cleaning, etc.  A couple of plastic, dark, 55 gallon drums would do OK.  Just don’t use water like you would in normal times.

I just cannot stress the above mentioned book enough.  Get it from the source you want but get it.  It will teach you much of what you need to know to be ready for things that are coming.  Be sure to get the 12.5 Edition.  It is the newest edition. 

They first came out years ago with only about 250 pages, then 500 pages; now this 12.5 Edition is 750 pages.  There are loads of websites and information sites in it.  This is a great way to learn. 

You do not have to get it from this website but so far as I have found it, this is the cheapest site.

I will touch lightly on the other items in the upcoming articles and give you some web sites to look at and my opinion on each. 

Here is one good website.

http://providentliving.org/?lang=eng   

Comments are welcome.

HOW TO START BEING SELF-RELIANT

Looking ahead.

Many people recognize the way the world is going and feel uneasy.  They think of their family and look ahead and see problems.  World war, natural disasters, losing their job, sickness in the family and many other possibilities. 

They ask themselves, how can I prepare for the future? 

In the following articles I will give you some ideas, some references on how to begin.  It is up to you to take those ideas and research them and then decide to do it for yourself and your family. 

Some even think of extended family, friends and neighbors.  You know that some of them are not looking ahead and you want to be able to help them.  You should strive to get a year supply.

Remember: To eat an elephant, you eat a bite at a time. 

So, start to get a week’s supply, then a month, then two, then three.  Do that 3 more times as you go.  If you can do it faster, Great.  But, DO NOT go into debt to do it.

Getting Started.

Go to this website and click on all the links and make notes.  Employment, Food storage, Finances.

A main goal is to have a good job that will provide you with what you need to live on.  To have sufficient food to exist on for a period of time needed.  To have your finances in order, out of debt as much as possible and some money set aside to live on until things get straightened out. 

NOTE

At this very moment, while I am talking to you, my power went out in my home.  I had looked ahead for possibilities like this and prepared ahead. 

Yes, my laptop can go for a while, but another source of power would be helpful.  I know this is not an EMP (look that up on Google and learn) because everything would have been fried, burnt out, computers, wiring in homes, cars made after 1972 with computers in them. 

I am Lucky this is a regular power outage, BUT I was prepared.  My laptop is charging and I am typing to you now.  I have some small portable solar generators.  It is a great test of my being self-reliant.  Even though I got bumped off the Internet, I can send this later.  This is a good, unexpected example of being prepared.

If this was an EMP, I would still be OK.  I have FARADAY cages for protecting all of my electronics, except this computer and my I-pad that I am currently using would have been fried, but everything I had in the cages would be OK. 

My regular phone connection is out so it is just my area.  This computer went down to 87 percent but it has only been a few minutes since I plugged into my solar rechargeable battery, the computer is now at 100 percent.  GREAT. 

My cell is working so I just called my solar company, and told them how great their portable power items are and soon I will have the link on my site for them. 

Getting started – Continued.

What an advertisement for preparedness. 

Look over some of the websites I will give and make your plans.

For a great reference and learning manual, pick up (in paper form in case your computer goes out) “MAKING THE BEST OF BASICS” by James Talmage Stevens, 12TH edition 2012.  It may cost about $20.00 or so, but to have the paper form is in itself, preparing for all problems.

In a nutshell, here are the basics that most people can get together to sustain life.  Once you have this amount for each member of your family, you could live for a year.  Once you have this, build on it by adding extra things to it so you don’t have to eat the same things over and over.

Store what you eat and eat what you store.  Rotate it.

Here are the basics to sustain life.

Wheat, powdered milk, salt, sugar or honey, water and sprouting seeds.

If you have this, you need a grinder, electric and/or a hand grinder if your electric goes out, and a mixer tough enough for bread, though you can do it by hand. 

You can live without food for a while longer if you have at least water. 

Sprouting seeds can be grown in a window, out of sight of people and this will give you what you need in place of a regular garden.  It is live when you eat it so your body gets what it needs for good health.  This has live ingredients.  If you had a year’s supply of sprouting seeds, and water, you could live a year but the diet would be sickening without having other different items for change.

Keep all Water and foods in a cool dark place for longer life.  Water grows bacteria in light.  The book mentioned above, covers all of this in detail.

For cooking it would be wise to get an All American Sun Oven, (not a Sport Sun Oven).  Most days it can be used.  It can get up to 400 degrees on a winter day too.  Just needs sun. 

Wood, propane and charcoal would be good to have as another source.  If you run out, there is always the Solar. 

Try to store food that does not need to be cold or frozen.  Can goods, Dehydrated and Freeze dried is the best.  They last 20 to 30 years but the way things are going in the world right now, you may not have to wait that long.

You can go to www.foodinsurance.com 

and download the FREE 2013 PREPAREDNESS GUIDE.  This is a good checklist.   You don’t have to do everything on the list so pray about it as a family or if you are single, yourself, and do what you feel is right for your circumstance. 

 

Listen to the Still Small Voice of the Spirit when it talks to you inside and most of all – OBEY IT. 

The company is a little higher in price compared to Emergency Essentials but it depends on what you get.

I consider Utah the Preparedness Capital of the World because of the thinking ahead of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and its people. 

That is my personal opinion.

I will be blogging about different topics of self-reliance and will post information from time to time under this title on this blog.

For more information, search www.lds.org

Comments and questions are welcome.

 

 

 



EMERGENCY PREPARDNESS - INTRODUCTION

THE PEOPLE OF THE EARTH GO ALONG THEIR MERRY WAY.

Many ask themselves, who is God and why does He even care about us? 

WHO ARE WE?

Since we are His sons and daughters, we have a spark of Deity in us and He wants us to be like Him.  He knows we will not get there in this life, but after this life, depending how we choose.

Most of the world does not realize that they are all sons and daughters of God, the Father.  He has sent our spirits here to obtain a body and be tested in all things and to learn how to take care of this body.  He has given us Free Agency to choose between Good and Evil. 

This shows Him who we really are and how much we can be trusted with responsibility when we return. 

It also teaches ourselves who we are also.  He shows us our strengths and our weaknesses so we can correct the weaknesses and make them strengths and to improve on our strengths.

The coming, as a spirit, into a body for this test was just as scary for us, as much as we are now scared of dying.  

He has made it that way so that we will try to stay alive as long as we can to postpone dying and accomplish the mission he sent us to do. 

We all have experiences to go through and things to learn.  He has also given each of us a mission or responsibility to accomplish the things we promised Him we would do.  

We are not here by chance.

THIS EARTH LIFE EXPERIENCE.

We are taught by our earthly parents to be honest, kind and be hard workers.  They tell us how to survive after they are gone back to Heaven. 

We live alone at first, then marry and have children and we teach them what we were taught. 

The Lord knows we will have trials and challengers, and bad times.  This is especially true for those of us who now live in the Last Days before the Second Coming of his Son, Jesus Christ.

He has given His children on the earth prophets at different time in history to guide us and teach us. 

In these Last Days it has not changed, no matter what anyone else says.  He has not left us alone.

Jesus Christ has Restored His church and also Restored the Fullness of His Gospel.   He has given us prophets again.  We have not had a prophet since 421 A.D. 

PREPARING FOR WHAT IS COMING. 

Because He knows what is coming in cleansing the earth of the wicked, He has told His prophets to tell us to prepare.

The Prophet Heber J. Grant in 1936 was inspired by the Lord to institute and teach the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to become self sufficient. 

Forty four years later in 1980, Apostle Ezra Taft Benson of the church and former Secretary of Agriculture under President Dwight D. Eisenhower,  told us to Prepare for the Last Days of Tribulation.  

He became the Prophet of the Church in 1985.  He knew what was coming and stressed strongly to be prepared.

Do not expect prophets in this day to look like or dress like prophets in ancient days.  Prophets act and dress like those in their day.

Listen to or read this talk.  Click here. 

Even if you are NOT a member, this is important for you to hear. 

When this Church was Restored by the Lord, and He chose a prophet, the prophet was to be for the Whole World, not just the church.  

If they would listen.  

He knew many would not.

Articles on Preparedness will be entered under this category.

For more information on this church see www.lds.org

Comment are welcome.