Enough of the Excuses!!

This seems appropriate for April Fools' Day. Its author, Wendy DeWitt,has given us permission to send it to all of you.


#10. My neighbors have a TWO year supply! No, they don't. They don'thave any food. Did you know that 85% of the members of the church don't have any food storage at all? If your idea of food storage is toeat someone else’s food………..this is a really bad plan.


#9. I've paid tithing for 20 years...the church can give me a littlefood. Many members believe that when the times get hard, the church isgoing to come through like Joseph in Egypt. Absolutely not true. Allthe church storehouses and welfare farms across the country would onlyfeed 4% of the members of the church. The church has been asking YOUto store food for 75 years. They're NOT storing food for you. Thus,another bad plan.


#8. I'm moving in with my children / parents! Really....that’s just abad plan all by itself. But it points out that most members don't havea year's supply because they're PLANNING on eating someone else'sfood! Of course, since no one HAS any food, we have yet another badplan.


#7. I have a year's supply...and the bullets to go with it! I've heardtime and again, "How dumb is that to go to all the time and expense of getting food...just to have some guy with a gun come and shoot myfamily to take it away?" Here's a better question. Are you afraid ofthe guy with the gun? Or are you more afraid of BECOMING the guy with the gun? What would you do if your children were starving to death?Would you lie? Cheat? Steal? Would you shoot your neighbor for his food? I guarantee....if you were watching your child starving todeath, you would do anything you had to to keep them alive. If you don't have your year's supply, you are putting yourself in danger oflosing not only your temporal salvation, but your spiritual salvationas well. So far, all the reasons we don't have20our food storage involve eatingsomeone else's food. Please, don't put your family's temporalsalvation in other people's hands. No one is storing food for you. Not your neighbors, not the government...not even the church.


#6. The boat and the 4 wheelers are taking up all my storage space!(priorities!)


#5. 3 letters....Y2K. Ok, that's 2 letters and a number....but they'realways making way too much out of everything! This is never going tohappen!” (Every prophecy that has ever been given WILL happen.)


#4. If anything DOES happen, the government will be here within hours!(insert laughter) Did you know the government has been telling us thatwe need to have food storage? They're actually CALLING it foodstorage! We now have the government telling us to store food, water,medicines...whatever we will need to be able to stay in our homes forseveral months.


#3. I can't afford scrap booking AND food storage. The average foodstorage can cost as little as a dollar a day. We live in the richestsociety in the history of the world, and while there are cases wheremoney may be a problem, most of the time it is a matter of priorities.We have chosen bigger homes, nicer cars, more tv's, computers,vacations ...everything is more important than our food storage. If Iasked, "Who has a cell phone?" most of you would say yes. You pay atleast $30 a month to have a cell phone....that's about a dollar aday ....the cost of one year's supply of food for your child. Is yourcell phone really more important than your child's temporal salvation?You have to make food storage a priority.


#2. I'm waiting for the cannery to sell Papa John's dehydrated pizza!Food storage has always had a stigma attached to it. If it's not wheat, beans and powdered milk, it's not food storage. With the system I use, food storage can be sweet and sour chicken, tamale pie, chileand cornbread, beef stew, shepherd's pie, minestrone...even chocolatechip cookies! Your imagination (and your pocketbook) are the onlylimitations you have. And the


#1 reason why I don't have my year's supply of food? A year??I thought it was 72 hours!!