Resources

Having been raised in the Northeast has it’s challenges when you are trying to do what our faith teaches us to do. We have been taught for many years to have food storage for your family in case of emergencies or future problems that may come up and also a 72 hour kit to take in case of emergencies. This is widely known. Obtaining that food storage was a huge task because the resources were not there. Most things needed to be ordered through ultra organized effort from the leadership in the church to ship everything to us from the west. We could order through catalogs or take a two hour drive to Massachusetts to get basics at the Bishop’s storehouse.
Well, I just went on a 15 minute drive to the Bishop’s Storehouse today to replace some of the food storage I gave away from my move. (I think I gave away about 75%-which is a lot) I walk in and a really great elderly man took my order and entered a very large room to gather everything I needed–already canned. Afterward I went to a nearby grocery store(from a tip by one of the workers there that sugar was at a good price) and got 75 lbs of sugar for a really good deal, a 5 gallon bucket, and 2 gamma lids(screw top lids for 5 gallon buckets)-In The Grocery Store! All these things I had to order from catalogs. Most stores I frequent out here have a food storage area with all the things that took us weeks or days to obtain. It took me less than two hours including travel time to obtain a portion of what I needed.
The resources here are enormous and I am grateful for that. Now I need to get back to replenishing my food storage. Let me contact the person in our ward that has the canner to can the powder milk and sugar I just got.

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