01 Jan: Emergency Principle: Safety Emergency Preparedness Stake Principle: Safety- The most important thing we do as individuals and families is to get spiritually and physically prepared for the times ahead! + Don't forget about your neighbors

1. Goal for the year: Have members be able to shelter-
in-place with no outside help or utilities.
This includes WATER, FOOD, COOKING, SHELTER, WARMTH, WASTE, etc.
Stake Emergency Principle-of-the-Month
January: Safety & Protection,
+ Don’t forget the Neighbors
Seek the Higher Ground (video)
Learn how to find safety from life's temporal and spiritual storms by following the Savior's
example and seeking higher spiritual ground.
TALK ABOUT: WATER
TALK ABOUT: SPIRITUAL SAFETY & PROTECTION,
PHYSICAL SAFETY & PROTECTION, NEIGHBORS, ETC.
It’s simple to be better prepared, but the human in most of us wants to spend time on the FUN, and
forget about getting prepared until it’s too late. The monthly messages, if followed, will better prepare
you and your family for the storms that are coming. YOU DON’T HAVE TO GET PREPARED BUT
YOU SHOULD. REMEMBER the storms to come and get spiritually and physically prepared D&C
88:87-91.
IF YOU ONLY DO ONE THING THIS MONTH, get 2 weeks of stored water that is portable and can
be used when the utilities are interrupted. Don’t count your water heater or 55 gallon drums of water.
The old guidelines say to store 1-gallon per person per day. That’s 14 gallons per person! Today’s
minimum guideline is 2-gallon per person per day. It’s your life, you decide. It’s a lot of water, I
know. The average American shower uses 17.2 gallons─ you try living for 2-weeks on one
shower amount of water!
Also, I learned from a retired water company executive to NEVER USE THE TOP TANK FROM
THE TOILET FOR DRINKING due to its contamination with the toilet below. (When the plunger
is used, a vacuum action pushes fecal matter and bacteria past the rubber valve into the water
tank above the toilet. PASS THIS INFO ON.
Lastly, it will do little good for you to be the only prepared house on your street. You need to
know your neighbors and help them get better prepared too. If you have a swimming pool, the
water can be filtered or distilled but is not a simple procedure. Swimming pool and spa water

2. can be used to flush toilets, clean clothing and wash your body. Pool chemicals, however,
lose their potency after a few days and water can grow deadly from bacteria in a short amount
of time. If you have a pool or spa, consider making or purchasing a gravity fed distiller.
87 For not many days hence and the earth shall tremble and reel to and fro as a drunken man; and the sun shall hide his
face, and shall refuse to give light; and the moon shall be bathed in blood; and the stars shall become exceedingly angry,
and shall cast themselves down as a fig that falleth from off a fig tree.
88 And after your testimony cometh wrath and indignation upon the people.
89 For after your testimony cometh the testimony of earthquakes, that shall cause groanings in the midst of her, and men
shall fall upon the ground and shall not be able to stand.
90 And also cometh the testimony of the voice of thunderings, and the voice of lightnings, and the voice of tempests, and
the voice of the waves of the sea heaving themselves beyond their bounds.
91 And all things shall be in commotion; and surely, men’s hearts shall fail them; for fear shall come upon all people.
D&C 88: 87-91
January 2019:
[ ] Complete survey in your ward (2-question water survey).
[ ] Talk with your family about SAFETY & PROTECTION and the need for Emergency Preparedness and
about YOUR plans.
Video about Safety
[ ] Volunteer to be a part of the Ward Emergency Preparedness committee
[ ] Prepare (14) days of stored water
[ ] Make your Family Emergency Preparedness Binder.
LINKS: LDS Emergency Preparedness links- general links, browse with your family and get to know the
resources available at the Mormon Channel
Help! What Do I Do in an Emergency?
If Ye Are Prepared, Ye Shall Not Fear: Emergency Preparedness
Happy Families: Preparing for Emergencies
Provident Living – Emergency Preparedness LINK -general links, browse with your family and get to
know the resources available at Provident Living site.