Dear Sisters,
I've been impressed with the fact that though, food storage is something we should all be involved in doing in our homes, Provident Living is much much more than storing food.
I heard a sister from our ward mention that "No amount food storage will help us through a crisis if we are not spiritually prepared". Being spiritually prepared is the foundation for which we will be able to meet any situation in our lives.
What we first want to ask ourselves is, What are we striving for? Our long-term goal is for our families to achieve the glory of the Celestial kingdom. Our Relief Society President, Brenda Wrye, has stated that "We are preparing for the second coming of Christ".
Living day to day, it's possible to get off the path. There is so much coming at us. So many schedules to keep, lessons to plan, a need to fulfill for a neighbor, that science project one of our children need help with. The list is seemingly endless.
So why provident living? Sewing the button on the shirt as soon as it fell off keeps a crisis from occurring when it's time to put it on and get out the door. The same goes for spending our money wisely, and for having food on hand. We are keeping a crisis from occurring. Crisis causes confusion and confusion is not of the Lord.
The loss of a job isn't the crisis. The crisis comes when we no longer have the necessities when the money starts to run out.
We all want nice things. The Lord knows this. Check out Matthew chapter 6:31-33 and also 3 NEPHI 13:31-33. I find it really cool that this was spoken almost verbatim to the people of the eastern hemisphere and to the people of the western hemisphere. I can almost guarantee that he gave the same exact words to the people he visited after he left the Nephites. He knows us.
When I first read these scriptures I was a teenager and not a member of the church. I thought that we didn't need to give any care or planning to our temporal needs -that if we prayed all day we would find these things. After I joined the church and learned of, and began to live the commandments, I read these scriptures again and began to understand them.
When we live the commandments we are blessed.. We know that we are commanded to live providently. So why do we store food? Having food storage is a commandment.
As Provident Living Specialist, I first want to invite all of us to carve out a time in everyday to read the scriptures, pray. and keep our journals up to date. I have found that If I make these things a priority, somehow all the important things get done.
If you have need of knowing where to begin with food storage, please call on me. I would love to work with you to help you get started. I had to begin as a newbee to the concept. It was daunting before I got started and I was grateful for the help I received.. I'm grateful to help too.
We have the dry-pack canner in our ward in November. I have attached a storehouse order form. I will be going to the Storehouse the last week of October. You can fill the form out on your computer and the numbers tally up for you. After you've filled it out, please print out the form and hand it off to me at church with your check for the total amount made payable to me.
I need to have your forms and money by October 24th. That's a Sunday. If you are mailing it to me, please mail it by the Friday the 22nd.
Looking at the form, please order bulk foods. On the from that's the column entitled "Bulk". And then order the number of cans, lids, and oxygen absorbers you will need using the information in the column that reads, "No. 10 Can Packaged by Customer". Cans fill by volume and bulk foods are sold by weight. That means that you need more cans for that big 25 pound sack of oatmeal as opposed to fewer cans for that smaller sack of black beans. Remember that you won't be ordering from the first column. You are using that column to get the information needed to determine how many cans, lids, and oxygen absorbers you will need for the bulk product you are buying. You will order the cans, lids, and oxygen absorbers at the bottom of the form.
If you have questions about the form or are totally confused by my instructions, please feel free to contact me.
Robbie Marquez
Hedgesville Ward
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010
DRY-PACK CANNER
Dear Sisters,
Since we will have the dry-pack canner in our ward during the month of March, you might be interested in canning some dry foods.
The most current storehouse order form is attached.
http://www.providentliving.org/pfw/multimedia/files/pfw/pdf/122384_Jan2010WE_HomeStoragePriceSheet_US_71140_000_pdf.pdf
Here is how it works:
When filling out the form, you will be ordering bulk foods. Therefore you will be purchasing from that 4th "Bulk" column on the form. Then you will look at the 2nd column, "#10 can packaged by customer", to determine how many cans you will need for the products you are ordering from that 4th column. For instance, a 25 pound sack of wheat (both the red wheat and the white wheat have the same volume and weight) weighs 5.8 pounds per can, so you will divide 25 pounds by 5.8 pounds to equal the number of cans you will need for that sack of wheat. In the case of that sack of wheat you will need 4.31 cans. Since you can't buy a third of a can I am leaving it to you to decide to buy 5 cans for the wheat or 4 and put the remaining amount in something to keep in your pantry for current use. My personal canning experience has required I buy that 5th can. Please remember that you are buying the bulk foods by weight and filling the cans by volume, so you are going to want to follow that 2nd column to determine how many cans you will need for each product you buy.
The next thing you will fill out on the form is the area in the lower right hand corner, entitled, "Bulk Packaging Materials." This is where you will enter the total number of cans and metal lids for sealing, and for the oxygen absorbers. You will need one oxygen absorber per can. Every can needs a metal lid. If you want a "Box for #10 Cans" (one box holds 6 #10 cans), or a "#10 plastic lid for Dry Pack Can" (this is in case you want to turn that can into a canister after you have opened it), I will be glad to pick those up for you. These last 2 items are not essential items for canning, but they might be something you want as a personal preference.
If you have the need for just cans, metal lids, and the oxygen packets, please follow the same instructions as above. You will need an oxygen absorber for each of your cans. (The only product that should not have an oxygen absorber when canned is granulated sugar.) I'll be picking up the cans at the same time I am there to get the ordered bulk foods.
Next, total up the $$ amount of your order (no tax), and print out the form. Write your check out, payable to me, then mail your order form and check to me, Robbie Marquez, at 1085 Crushed Apple Drive, Martinsburg, WV 25403. You may also hand your form and your check to me at church this next Sunday. (I am in the RS room the 2nd and 3rd hours.) You can also drop it off at my house.
I have to have your order and money by Wednesday, the 3rd of March.
Unfortunately, I will not be able to pick up orders for which I do not have money. If you find that you are really stretching things to order food storage items this month, no worries. We will do this again. I'm currently working to determine what the need is so I can plan trips to the storehouse. And, as always, you are personally free to go to the storehouse on your own. If you would like further information about the storehouse and their hours, etc., please phone, or email me. The storehouse is a user friendly place to be. Juliana, who usually answers the phone, and helps me when I am at the storehouse, is one of the nicest people you will ever meet.
I am planning to go to the Storehouse on Thursday the 4th of March. I will let you know via email when the canner is set up at my house and ready to be used. You may then email or phone me 304-267-5969 , to schedule when you would like to come over and can your foods. Your foods and/or cans will be at my house eagerly awaiting your arrival.
Also, regarding the Family Home Storage Order Form: I suggest that you do not save a blank copy to your computer for future use. The prices change periodically. Instead, go to LDS.org when you want to check prices or place an order. On the LDS.org homepage, go to "Home and Family" and in the drop-down box to the right, click on "Family Home Storage." When you are on that page, you will find the title, "Home Storage Order Form" in a column on the lower right. Click on that and the form will come up.
It's a pleasure to be the Provident Living go-to person for Hedgesville Ward, so please email me if you have any questions or suggestions.
Sincerely,
Robbie Marquez
robbiem54@gmail.com
Since we will have the dry-pack canner in our ward during the month of March, you might be interested in canning some dry foods.
http://www.providentliving.org/pfw/multimedia/files/pfw/pdf/122384_Jan2010WE_HomeStoragePriceSheet_US_71140_000_pdf.pdf
Here is how it works:
When filling out the form, you will be ordering bulk foods. Therefore you will be purchasing from that 4th "Bulk" column on the form. Then you will look at the 2nd column, "#10 can packaged by customer", to determine how many cans you will need for the products you are ordering from that 4th column. For instance, a 25 pound sack of wheat (both the red wheat and the white wheat have the same volume and weight) weighs 5.8 pounds per can, so you will divide 25 pounds by 5.8 pounds to equal the number of cans you will need for that sack of wheat. In the case of that sack of wheat you will need 4.31 cans. Since you can't buy a third of a can I am leaving it to you to decide to buy 5 cans for the wheat or 4 and put the remaining amount in something to keep in your pantry for current use. My personal canning experience has required I buy that 5th can. Please remember that you are buying the bulk foods by weight and filling the cans by volume, so you are going to want to follow that 2nd column to determine how many cans you will need for each product you buy.
The next thing you will fill out on the form is the area in the lower right hand corner, entitled, "Bulk Packaging Materials." This is where you will enter the total number of cans and metal lids for sealing, and for the oxygen absorbers. You will need one oxygen absorber per can. Every can needs a metal lid. If you want a "Box for #10 Cans" (one box holds 6 #10 cans), or a "#10 plastic lid for Dry Pack Can" (this is in case you want to turn that can into a canister after you have opened it), I will be glad to pick those up for you. These last 2 items are not essential items for canning, but they might be something you want as a personal preference.
If you have the need for just cans, metal lids, and the oxygen packets, please follow the same instructions as above. You will need an oxygen absorber for each of your cans. (The only product that should not have an oxygen absorber when canned is granulated sugar.) I'll be picking up the cans at the same time I am there to get the ordered bulk foods.
Next, total up the $$ amount of your order (no tax), and print out the form. Write your check out, payable to me, then mail your order form and check to me, Robbie Marquez, at 1085 Crushed Apple Drive, Martinsburg, WV 25403. You may also hand your form and your check to me at church this next Sunday. (I am in the RS room the 2nd and 3rd hours.) You can also drop it off at my house.
I have to have your order and money by Wednesday, the 3rd of March.
Unfortunately, I will not be able to pick up orders for which I do not have money. If you find that you are really stretching things to order food storage items this month, no worries. We will do this again. I'm currently working to determine what the need is so I can plan trips to the storehouse. And, as always, you are personally free to go to the storehouse on your own. If you would like further information about the storehouse and their hours, etc., please phone, or email me. The storehouse is a user friendly place to be. Juliana, who usually answers the phone, and helps me when I am at the storehouse, is one of the nicest people you will ever meet.
I am planning to go to the Storehouse on Thursday the 4th of March. I will let you know via email when the canner is set up at my house and ready to be used. You may then email or phone me 304-267-5969 , to schedule when you would like to come over and can your foods. Your foods and/or cans will be at my house eagerly awaiting your arrival.
Also, regarding the Family Home Storage Order Form: I suggest that you do not save a blank copy to your computer for future use. The prices change periodically. Instead, go to LDS.org when you want to check prices or place an order. On the LDS.org homepage, go to "Home and Family" and in the drop-down box to the right, click on "Family Home Storage." When you are on that page, you will find the title, "Home Storage Order Form" in a column on the lower right. Click on that and the form will come up.
It's a pleasure to be the Provident Living go-to person for Hedgesville Ward, so please email me if you have any questions or suggestions.
Sincerely,
Robbie Marquez
robbiem54@gmail.com
Thursday, January 28, 2010
FAMILY HOME STORAGE
Sisters,
For some members, "food storage" is a good thing...but only in bits and pieces. Enough to show obedience, but not so much as to be "extreme," however individual members might define that.
Yet, as time goes by...Church counsel certainly seems to be expanding to cover more food storage and "emergency preparedness topics. Take a look at http://providentliving.org/, if you haven't read it lately, the advice is still broad and general...yet is is also getting steadily more comprehensive as time passes.
Food Storage is now Family Home Storage, of which food storage is just one part.
There are now guidelines on how to purify water...and even recommendations on good commercial water filters/purifiers.
And through the distrobution center catalog...the church is even SELLING water filters; food storage "starter kits," packing and canning materials, etc.
A financial reserve is more and more emphasized...and Church leaders seem to be pushing the paying off of debt more strenuously than ever.
One article that I've come to be particularly fond of is "Lay Up in Store" by Bishop Keith B. McMullin, Second Counselor in the Presiding Bishopric. Published in the Ensign in May, 2007, it is available online http://www.lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.js...__
President Brenda Wrye
For some members, "food storage" is a good thing...but only in bits and pieces. Enough to show obedience, but not so much as to be "extreme," however individual members might define that.
Yet, as time goes by...Church counsel certainly seems to be expanding to cover more food storage and "emergency preparedness topics. Take a look at http://providentliving.org/, if you haven't read it lately, the advice is still broad and general...yet is is also getting steadily more comprehensive as time passes.
Food Storage is now Family Home Storage, of which food storage is just one part.
There are now guidelines on how to purify water...and even recommendations on good commercial water filters/purifiers.
And through the distrobution center catalog...the church is even SELLING water filters; food storage "starter kits," packing and canning materials, etc.
A financial reserve is more and more emphasized...and Church leaders seem to be pushing the paying off of debt more strenuously than ever.
One article that I've come to be particularly fond of is "Lay Up in Store" by Bishop Keith B. McMullin, Second Counselor in the Presiding Bishopric. Published in the Ensign in May, 2007, it is available online http://www.lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.js...__
President Brenda Wrye
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