Bringing Hope and Joy to Those Feeling Forgotten
Cover image via Operation Ornaments Facebook page. I have spent years teaching self-reliance and listening to stories of disaster survivors. We have “discussed” emergency prep here for 16 years, but...
View ArticleSelf-Reliance for the Last Days
“None of us knows when a catastrophe might strike. We have a great welfare program with facilities but the best place to have some food set aside is within our homes, together with a little money in...
View ArticleEvacuation: It Can Happen to You
Once again, I have changed the article I was going to post this week. As I watched the horrific firestorm in southern California, I was once again made aware and saddened as I heard story after story...
View ArticleLessons Learned: Five Day Kits
We have recently seen horrendous flooding in North Carolina and Tennessee and unbelievable fires in California. If we are paying attention, there is much we can learn. Today we look at lessons learned...
View ArticleAre You Prepared For an Auto Accident?
It’s winter in many places and with that comes ice and snow on the roads. Slip, sliding away and off the road you go. Not everyone is facing slippery roads but…There you are, blinker on, sitting in...
View ArticleEnjoy Your Flight by Being Prepared
As I sit at the airport and wait and wait for a flight that has been delayed three hours, I look around and wonder how prepared these people really are for flying nightmares. We have all heard the...
View ArticleRaising Our Children to Be Self-Reliant
On a recent television show, the host was talking to people about the things on their “bucket lists” – in other words, the kind of things they wanted to do before they “kicked the bucket”. A popular...
View ArticleHow to Stay Safe on Your Summer Road Trips
Summer driving can be extremely dangerous, should your car break down leaving you stranded in the blistering heat. With the price of gas coming down more and more families will be heading out on the...
View ArticleDo You Believe the Savior’s Admonition on Preparedness?
Recently I have seen panic and fear due to tariffs and deportation and so much more. The media is feeding us information hourly, some true, some partially true, some completely untrue. What do we...
View ArticleWhat is Your Ebenezer?
We are thrilled with the addition of the hymn “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing” to the new hymnbook. We sing: Here I raise my Ebenezer, Here by Thy great help I’ve come, And I hope by Thy good...
View Article10 Self-Reliance Pitfalls to Avoid
Hopefully in the time since General Conference you have been considering what you need to do to be better prepared temporally as well as spiritually. “…I gave unto him commandment, but no temporal...
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Water, Water Everywhere? Maybe Not
If you don’t live in Texas, Arizona, or New Mexico, you may not realize how severe the drought situation is in the United States right now. But drought affects all of us—and we all need to be part of...
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Civil Unrest: It Could Happen to You
We have seen civil unrest growing in the United States, Canada and across Europe for years. In the recent year, it has accelerated. Most recently we have witnessed growing antisemitism at an alarming...
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Protect Against Fires in Your Neighborhood
Wildfires are the fastest-growing disaster threat in the United States and in many areas of the world. As more people build homes in wooded areas, forests, and rural areas, they put themselves at added...
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