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We live in a most exciting and challenging peri...

We live in a most exciting and challenging period in human history. As technology sweeps through every facet of our lives, changes are occurring so rapidly that it can be difficult for us to keep our lives in balance. To maintain some semblance of stability in our lives, it is essential that we plan for our future. I believe it is time, and perhaps with some urgency, to review the counsel we have received in dealing with our personal and family preparedness. We want to be found with oil in our lamps sufficient to endure to the end. President Spencer W. Kimball admonished us:

"In reviewing the Lord�s counsel to us on the importance of preparedness, I am impressed with the plainness of the message. The Savior made it clear that we cannot place sufficient oil in our preparedness lamps by simply avoiding evil. We must also be anxiously engaged in a positive program of preparation."

He also said: "The Lord will not translate one�s good hopes and desires and intentions into works. Each of us must do that for himself." (The Miracle of Forgiveness, Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1969, p. 8).

Author: L. Tom Perry, Source: http://lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010Vg...
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He has lovingly commanded us to "prepare every ...

He has lovingly commanded us to "prepare every needful thing" (see D&C 109:8) so that, should adversity come, we may care for ourselves and our neighbors and support bishops as they care for others.
Author: First Presidency, Source: http://www.lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=e1fa5f74db46c0...
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Our emphasis on this subject is not grounds for...

Our emphasis on this subject is not grounds for crisis thinking or panic. Quite the contrary, personal and family preparedness should be a way of provident living, an orderly approach to using the resources, gifts, and talents the Lord shares with us. So the first step is to teach our people to be self-reliant and independent through proper preparation for daily life.
Author: Victor L. Brown, Source: Essentials of Home Production and Storage, 1978
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Priesthood bearers are led by these promises to...

Priesthood bearers are led by these promises to prepare themselves and their families for the Lord's appearing. There is no need to be anxious about events leading up to the Second Coming. Let us instead be filled with gratitude for our understanding of what lies ahead. Let us appreciate that we are in charge of our own world, being the Lord's agents over that which He has entrusted to us. The formula is simple: Be faithful. Unencumber your life. Lay up in store.
Author: Keith B. McMullin, Source: http://www.lds.org/conference/talk/display/0,5232,49-1-690-20,...
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Many more people could ride out the storm-tosse...

Many more people could ride out the storm-tossed waves in their economic lives if they had their year's supply of food and clothing and were debt free.

Many today have followed this counsel in reverse. They have at least a year's supply of debt and are food free.
Author: Thomas S. Monson, Source: http://ce.byu.edu/cw/womensconference/archive/2001/monson_thom...
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I should like to address a few remarks to those...

I should like to address a few remarks to those who ask, �Do I share with my neighbors who have not followed the counsel? And what about the nonmembers who do not have a year�s supply? Do we have to share with them?� No, we don�t have to share—we get to share! Let us not be concerned about silly thoughts of whether we would share or not. Of course we would share! What would Jesus do? I could not possibly eat food and see my neighbors starving. And if you starve to death after sharing, �greater love hath no man than this...� (John 15:13.)
Now what about those who would plunder and break in and take that which we have stored for our families� needs? Don�t give this one more idle thought. There is a God in heaven whom we have obeyed. Do you suppose he would abandon those who have kept his commandments? He said, �If ye are prepared, ye need not fear.�
Author: Vaughn J. Featherstone, Source: �Food Storage,� Ensign, May 1976, 116
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A man with a surplus can control circumstances,...

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.
Author: Harvey S. Firestone, Source: Unknown
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Not only should we have strong spiritual homes,...

Not only should we have strong spiritual homes, but we should have strong temporal homes. We should avoid bondage by getting out of debt as soon as we can, pay as we go, and live within our incomes. There is wisdom in having on hand a year's supply of food, clothing, fuel (if possible), and in being preparing to defend our families and our possessions and to take care of ourselves. I believe a man should prepare for the worst while working for the best.
Author: Ezra Taft Benson, Source: Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson, p. 263-264
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Home production and storage: The prepared famil...

Home production and storage: The prepared family has sufficient stores to take care of basic needs for a minimum of one year. Further, they are, where possible, actively involved in the growing, canning, and sewing, and production of their year's supply.
Author: Victor L. Brown, Source: LDS General Conference, October 1975
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We will see the day when we live on what we pro...

We will see the day when we live on what we produce.
Author: Marion G. Romney, Source: Conference Report, April 1975
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Fathers, another vital aspect of providing for ...

Fathers, another vital aspect of providing for the material needs of your family is the provision you should be making for your family in case of an emergency. Family preparedness has been a long-established welfare principle. It is even more urgent today. I ask you earnestly, have you provided for your family a year's supply of food, clothing, and, where possible, fuel? The revelation to produce and store food may be as essential to our temporal welfare today as boarding the ark was to the people in the days of Noah.

...Yes, brethren, as fathers in Israel you have a great responsibility to provide for the material needs of your family and to have the necessary provisions in case of emergency.
Author: Ezra Taft Benson, Source: General Conference, April 1988
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An important part of the Lord's storehouse is m...

An important part of the Lord's storehouse is maintained as a year's supply, stored, where possible, in the homes of faithful families of the Church.
Author: James E. Faust, Source: April Conference, 1986
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Can we see how critical self-reliance becomes w...

Can we see how critical self-reliance becomes when looked upon as the prerequisite to service, when we all know service is what Godhood is all about? Without self-reliance one cannot exercise these inane desires to serve. How can we give if there is nothing there? Food for the hungry cannot come from empty shelves. Money to assist the needy cannot come from an empty purse. Support and understanding cannot come from the emotionally starved. Teaching cannot come from the unlearned. And most important of all, spiritual guidance cannot come from the spiritually weak.
Author: Gordon B. Hinckley, Source: Ensign, July 1984
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For years we have been counseled to have on han...

For years we have been counseled to have on hand a year's supply of food. Yet there are some today who would not start storing until the Church comes out with a detailed monthly home storage program. Now suppose that never happens? We still cannot say we have not been told.

Should the Lord decide at this time to cleanse the Church...a famine in this land of one year's duration could wipe out a large percentage of slothful members, including some ward and stake officers. Yet we cannot say we have not been warned.
Author: Ezra Taft Benson, Source: Welfare Meeting, October Conference, 1966
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We are constantly charged with preparation in t...

We are constantly charged with preparation in time of plenty against want in time of need.
Author: J. Reuben Clark, Jr., Source: The Improvement Era, September 1961, p. 632
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