Food Storage...

Alright, time to get serious about food storage! We’ve all heard the counsel about food storage, and we’ve done a decent job storing food for around 6 months. After General Conference we felt we needed to get the full year (and also make sure our finances were solid.) We don’t necessarily feel that a great calamity will happen to us, (we sure hope not) but we need to be prepared and also be prepared to help out others as we can. Besides there is security with the extra storage, and most importantly, great safety and security following the counsel of the prophets and the promptings of the Spirit.

Shawna kept having an uneasy feeling about our finances, and Sterling had a sudden inspiration on the plane flying home – fix the finances. (They weren’t “broken” – we were saving a lot, and paying the bills; just not paying off some balances as quickly as we could have.) So we sat down with the spreadsheet to do so. When we were finished planning, we had cut our time to pay off the balance from two years down to six months. There wasn’t really any more money, (although we “found” some extra) just a different priority. The plan came together very easily, and we knew we were doing what we were supposed to do. It was a neat experience!