“We have built grain storage and storehouses and stocked them with the necessities of life in the event of a disaster. But the best storehouse is the family storeroom. In words of revelation the Lord has said, ‘Organize yourselves; prepare every needful thing‘ (D&C 109:8).”
“The best place to have some food set aside is within our homes, together with a little money in savings.”
“The best welfare program is our own welfare program. Five or six cans of wheat in the home are better than a bushel in the welfare granary.”
– President Gordon B. Hinckley –
“If ye are prepared ye shall not fear. What a promise! It is one that can literally change the way we see our future.”
“Temporal, spiritual, and emotional preparation is our key to embracing this dispensation and our future with faith.”
– President Russell M. Nelson –
“The need for preparation is abundantly clear. The great blessing of being prepared gives us freedom from fear.”
“Start now to create a plan if you don’t already have one, or update your present plan.”
– Elder L. Tom Perry –
“In reviewing the Lord’s counsel to us on the importance of preparedness, I am impressed with the plainness of the message.”
“The Lord will not translate one’s good hopes and desires and intentions into works.”
“We encourage you to grow all the food that you feasibly can on your own property. Make your garden as neat and attractive as well as productive. If there are children in your home, involve them in the process with assigned responsibilities.”
– President Spencer W. Kimball –
“Have sufficient food, clothing, and fuel on hand to last at least one year.”
“The revelation to store food may be as essential to our temporal salvation today as boarding the ark was to the people in the days of Noah.”
“Those families will be fortunate who, in the last days, have an adequate supply of food because of their foresight and ability to produce their own.”
– President Ezra Taft Benson –
“Paramount is the responsibility to coordinate personal and family preparedness efforts, including food storage.”
– President Thomas S. Monson –
“Live within your means.” – President J. Reuben Clark –
“Being temporally prepared and self-reliant means ‘believing that through the grace, or enabling power, of Jesus Christ and our own effort, we are able to obtain all the spiritual and temporal necessities of life we require for ourselves and our families.” – Bishop W. Christopher Waddell –