| War | Disability | Drought |
| Terrorism | Emergency expenses | Pandemic |
| Shipping strikes | To become Christ-like | Crop destruction |
| To save money | PROPHETIC COUNSEL | To serve others |
| Quarantine | To live providently | Recession |
| Crop failures | To save time | Natural disasters |
| Economic depression | Unemployment | Death of breadwinner |
“Let every head of every household see to it that he has on hand enough food and clothing, and, where possible, fuel also, for at least a year ahead.” — J. Rueben Clark, Jr. (Conference Report, April 1937, p. 26.)
“The revelation to store food may be as essential to our temporal salvation today as boarding the ark was to the people in the days of Noah.” — Ezra Taft Benson (“Prepare Ye,” Ensign, January 1974, p. 80)
“We encourage members worldwide to prepare for adversity in life by having a basic supply of food and water and some money in savings.” – The First Presidency (All is Safely Gathered In: Family Home Storage, April 2007)
“We encourage families to have on hand this year’s supply; and we say it over and over and over and repeat over and over the scripture of the Lord where He says, ‘Why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?’ How empty it is as they put their spirituality, so-called, into action and call him by his important names, but fail to do the things which he says.” — Spencer W. Kimball (“Family Preparedness,” Ensign, May 1976, p. 125)