Part 3

My thoughts on Sister Beck's talk "What Latter-day Women Do Best: Stand Stron and Immovable"

Because of a major wind storm that may be going through our little town I’m going to try to get this out before our power goes off, but I only have five minutes. (Oh my goodness, I started this and then walked away.)

“…most important work for the women of the Church still lies ahead.” SIGH. I guess the righteous never get a rest. This brings me back to the VT message for the month of October. We truly need to be ready for the second coming and we need to be physically prepared to offer relief and comfort as well as spiritually prepared.

Like many things, I want to make sure that my house is in order before I go and take care of others. Our stake has started doing an “emergency preparation” day for FHE in September. What a blessing it has been to once a year participate in a mock emergency drill. It makes us question if we are prepared. Now of course every general conference our family goes through and assess what we have and what we still need since our needs are constantly changing. Because of a few months where we were pinching pennies, I have let our 3 month of non “food storage” items dwindle. Plainly, I was using them. I noticed that we could survive for a year or two on the food storage (wheat, flour, sugar, noodles etc.) that I have stored, but the “daily” pantry was pretty dry. I’m still pinching pennies, but I have just replenished it. I can’t tell you what a relief it is to have that store back up. I’m still missing a few items (need a costco trip) but there is a weight off my shoulders.

Last night the Pacific Northwest had a big storm and the stores were PACKED! People were buying batteries, milk and bread. Of course I went to the store to stock up, but I was stocking up on their sell items. The bread isle was pretty bare and the milk was pretty thins as well. The gas station also had a line.

Admittedly I also plunked in a few batteries, grabbed an extra loaf of bread and filled my car up, but I wasn’t panicking like everyone else. In fact my panic my car battery died! I had to have my home teacher come jump me and then make a beeline to the battery store. But what a relief it was to know that *IF* I needed to leave the area, I had a battery to start my car, gas to get me there and food for us to survive. WHEW!