Thinking About Your 72 Hour Kits...

I hope you are enjoying conference weekend as much as I am. I love to hear the words of our prophet and apostles and leaders! I challenge you to listen for the encouragement we receive on how we can be better prepared physically and how the church welfare system works. If the church was not prepared in advance, how would it be able to send so much assistance to those who are right now desperately in need? Is this not an example, a teaching, and a warning to us that we should be individually prepared for whatever may come our way? I was once given a suggestion that I would like to pass on to you. General Conference weekend is a great time to think about rotating your 72 hour kits. You can use this time to do a couple of different things. First, you can check for expired or near expired contents of you kit and put these items on your shopping list for replacement. What kinds of things will need rotating? Food and water, clothing, medicine, batteries, light sticks, lotions/sunscreens and anything else with an expiration date. Second, you can familiarize yourself with what is in your kit so that you know where things are when you need them. Some of you may have larger scouting-type backpacks that hold quite a bit of stuff. You may want to think about where things are placed in your backpacks. If you're out and about with your 72-hour kit and it suddenly starts raining, it would be nice if your poncho was in a place that was easy to reach. The same thing goes for your light source. You would want to have that easily accessible in case you're caught needing light when it's dark. We will be having our 72-hour kit class soon (April 19th) and I would like you to think about what you would prioritize as the MOST IMPORTANT things to have in your emergency kit. When you come to our class, we will talk this over and see what what we come up with!!!