phylm
11-11-2009, 09:23 PM
I have been interested in the experiences of Mirk and others in this forum in trying to convince relatives and acquaintances of the importance of preparation. I readily admit that I am a "prep freak," and just as readily talk about prep to anyone who will listen.
I was teaching an unofficial prep class to a group of folks in our ward, and was pleased with the progress that some of them made. I had to call a halt to it during the summer when we were called to go to Vermont, and haven't taken it up since. I was pleased when some of my "students" asked if I would start it up again. They want to know more about cooking storage food, and alternative means of cooking without electricity. I agreed to.
I was really pleased when one of the young mothers told me this week that she and her husband had budgeted a monthly amount of money this year to use for prep, and that they had ordered $200 for storage food this month, and she wants to continue the class. She also told me that she had just endured a 25 hour water outage, and was surprised that it took 7 gallons of her stored water during that time. She was happy, though, that she had observed the council to store water!
And today the technician who was drawing my husband's blood, asked him to tell me that a group from the young singles' ward to whom I gave a prep talk in August, have made a date to go up to the Jacksonville cannery to put up storage food. They have put together their 72 hour kits, also.
So, slow and steady may win the race. I can see a parallel in preaching prep to missionary efforts. I just wish I could let the dozens of missionaries who so diligently and lovingly, over the years, taught and tried to baptize our family could know what happened after they had gone home, thinking that they had failed. All of us were eventually baptized, and we now have great grandchildren being born into the covenant. What a blessing it is to have the restored gospel in our lives.
I was teaching an unofficial prep class to a group of folks in our ward, and was pleased with the progress that some of them made. I had to call a halt to it during the summer when we were called to go to Vermont, and haven't taken it up since. I was pleased when some of my "students" asked if I would start it up again. They want to know more about cooking storage food, and alternative means of cooking without electricity. I agreed to.
I was really pleased when one of the young mothers told me this week that she and her husband had budgeted a monthly amount of money this year to use for prep, and that they had ordered $200 for storage food this month, and she wants to continue the class. She also told me that she had just endured a 25 hour water outage, and was surprised that it took 7 gallons of her stored water during that time. She was happy, though, that she had observed the council to store water!
And today the technician who was drawing my husband's blood, asked him to tell me that a group from the young singles' ward to whom I gave a prep talk in August, have made a date to go up to the Jacksonville cannery to put up storage food. They have put together their 72 hour kits, also.
So, slow and steady may win the race. I can see a parallel in preaching prep to missionary efforts. I just wish I could let the dozens of missionaries who so diligently and lovingly, over the years, taught and tried to baptize our family could know what happened after they had gone home, thinking that they had failed. All of us were eventually baptized, and we now have great grandchildren being born into the covenant. What a blessing it is to have the restored gospel in our lives.