Saturday was a Relief Society service activity. It was also in conjunction with the annual Women's Conference. Many good things happened during this gathering. Greeting cards were crafted for the women's shelter and princess wands were created to be sold at the Christmas Tree Festival. Delightful christmas stockings were put together with care. Six quilts, newborn caps and personal hygiene kits were assembled for the humanitarian center. Baby products were donated to the Family Support Center of Midvale. There was great support and much was accomplished for these worthy causes.
Because of recent hurricanes, the Church is in need of 450,000 hygiene and cleaning kits. They are asking for 6000 volunteers to help assemble kits. Please donate your generous time.
This rack holds fifty-five gallon drums of water HORIZONTALLY so the water can be extracted simply by turning on a faucet. No pumps, no siphons.
For directions open the PDF file at
http://www.theideadoor.com/Preparedness/storing_water.htm#Storing_Water_Barrels
Dear Friends:
Just to let you know that the Rittman's are doing well. We have a 6'x6' hole in our roof, no electricity or running water, trees down everywhere. However, because we listened to the counsel of our Prophet we are prepared, calm, and helping one another with trees in roofs, flooding, etc.
There is a POD or Point of Distribution in Tomball where we live. There you get water and ice IF you have enough fuel to wait in the 3 hour lines. We don't have to do that because we have 3 full water barrels, 75 juice bottles filled with water, and our pool which is dirty but we use it to flush.
It is very difficult to get gas. Police guard the stations when fuel is delivered and you might wait half a day to get up to the pump just to have them say, 'Too bad, we are out'.
I am grateful that we have a generator. We run it 4 hours a day to keep our fridge and light. I am grateful that we have had fuel for it. You can't even by gas containers as they are rationed. We can only by bread once a week and limited to 2 loaves at a time. Water is rationed by the case at the grocery store - 3 cases per family.
The ATM machines do not have power. For the past 6 months I have stashed small bills away because I have had such a feeling of foreboding. We have cash because of that. LISTEN TO THE SPIRIT. Get cash in small bills because the stores can't make change and credit and debit cards often don't work. I had to pay 5 dollars more for an item because they couldn't make change for me. PHONES ONLY WORK OCCASIONALLY.
Believe it or not... I have not had a bath in 4 days, Today was the first day I got to wash my hair with pool water. I haven't fixed my hair in a week!!! It just doesn't matter anymore. We can not do laundry because we don't have water. So, we wear our clothes until they are literally disgusting. When we do finally get water we will have to boil it since it is contaminated.
I am grateful for my parents. When we got low on generator fuel they drove 45 minutes to help us. They filled up their cans and brought us 10 gallons of fuel which kept us going until this morning at 6:oo am when we finally found some gas.
I want all of you to know that I have such a testimony of following the counsel of our living prophet. There really is safety and peace in your heart if you are prepared. Please get your generators, 5 gas cans full of gas, canned goods, baby items, baby wipes to bathe, and all the water you can store...even if you have to trip on it in your home. Have your lanterns, crank flashlights, tarps, rope, etc.. ready to go because you never know when it will be your turn to endure the test. It's overwhelming, but it's going to be ok eventually. I have a home, I have food, I have water, because I listened to the counsel of the prophet. Please make sure you do the same. It's time to have your life in order. Tomorrow may be too late.
I love you all so much. I wish you were here. Take care!
Jyl
Attached is a link for the presentations at a recent Spanish Fork Utah South Stake Self-Reliance Fair held in August. If you click on the link for "all the presentations", that is only for pandemic, and the first paragraph of each slide is redundant, however there is some good information about preventing the spreading of germs if you are stranded in your house for extended periods of time. . .
Prepare yourselves and as recently spoken in another fireside given in Utah County, be kind to those neighbors of different faiths who don't live the LDS "culture", and do the best you can to prepare, and do not fear. . .
http://webpub.byu.net/dst05/
This link was passed along to me and I requested the guide described below. She emailed it off to me very quickly and it is wonderful! If you would like one emailed to you, just email her at the address at the end of the following message. She asks that you don't forward the attachment on, but to have people email her directly so she can share other stuff she gets with them. I think you'll find this very helpful.
Hi All -
Last year, while serving as R.S. President of the West Mountain 3rd Ward, I compiled a fully indexed, 80 page guide on Emergency Preparedness that I would be happy to email (FREE) to anyone who emails me asking for it. Being indexed, it's easy to find information. It was compiled from info given out by wards, stakes, the Church website, and other web sites dealing with preparedness and covers what to do in all types of emergencies, first aid, fuel sources and storage, and also food and water storage. The beauty of the guide is that I have eliminated much of the duplication that we all have in our ER binders, and now I can find facts quickly using the table of contents or the index.
You can print it out, put it in a binder and add to it. When you do this, I suggest that you number the pages and make an additional table of contents for the pages you add, so that you can quickly find the material you want. For example, I compiled this before material on the coming pandemic was available, so when you get this info and add it, just make a note in your table of contents as to where the material can be found in your binder.
I have only one request. Would you please have any friends/family who also want one, send an email to me like you did? I will have other freebies from time to time and this will allow me to offer them directly to each person who responds to this email. Please feel free to print as many copies as you wish. Nothing is copyrighted
Kathy
mailto:ksbray@mac.com
