Month September 2025

Four areas of personal and famly preparedness represented in photographs

How Does Preparedness Help Build Zion?

“How does preparedness help establish Zion?” and “How does preparedness or self-reliance or provident living (different names for the same idea) help build the Kingdom of God on the earth?” I think we can find the answer when we look…

Containers of water in different sizes

“Sturdy Shoes and a Waterproof Tent” – #7

“Sturdy Shoes and a Waterproof Tent” is one of my favorite preparedness articles from the Ensign magazine. It offers many preparedness lessons we can learn from Church history (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints). It’s perfect for this…

Home first aid kit in a plastic tool box, a purchased pocket first aid kit, and a homemade emergency first aid kit

First Aid Supplies

A good first aid kit should be serviceable every day as well as in disaster situations. A family first aid kit will be more practical if it is also a medicine chest. Storing all medicines and first aid supplies in…

Cover of Store This, Not That!

Store This, Not That!

Store This, Not That! The Quick and Easy Food Storage Guide was written by Crystal Godfrey and Debbie Kent. This is a larger book (8-1/2 x 11) but it has a nice binding that allows the book to open fully…

Line drawing of Noah teaching the people from the ark

Book of Gomer: A Parable

These are the generations of Gomer, son of Homer, son of Omer. And in the days of Gomer, Noah, the Prophet, went unto the people saying, “Prepare ye for the flood which is to come, yea, build yourselves a boat,…

Fire extinguisher

“Sturdy Shoes and a Waterproof Tent” – #6

“Sturdy Shoes and a Waterproof Tent” is one of my favorite preparedness articles from the Ensign magazine. It offers many preparedness lessons we can learn from Church history (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints). It’s perfect for this…

Fruits, vegetables, grains

“…to be used sparingly…”

In Doctrine and Covenants 89: 12, the Lord states “Yea, flesh also of beasts and of the fowls of the air, I, the Lord, have ordained for the use of man with thanksgiving; nevertheless they are to be used sparingly;…”…