Mormons storing food for a year

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melissaP said:
as far as the food storage issue goes, i bet most of us have food in our cabinets that have been there MORE than a year. i know that i do. but i also pull items out a couple of times a year to take to the crisis food center.
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LOL- we have a lot of stuff over a year… and some are beginning to sprout legs…:rotfl:
 
kellie said:
I have just been reading lds.org and discovered that Mormons are to try and keep enough food in storage to feed their family for a year, in case there is ever a time when food is scarce.

Doesn’t this go against the teachings of Jesus to feed the poor?
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I don’t think so. A person could work to store food for a year, and also be very aware of the needs of the poor. On the other hand, a person with no food stored could have no awareness of the needs of the poor.

Actually, while I don’t know about storing food for a whole year, it is always a good idea to keep non-perishable food around in case of blizzard, tornado, hurricane, earthquake, etc.
 
My good friend and her hubby, (LDS) are going through tough times. He is quite ill and her health is not good. They have tithed to LDS even though they could not afford to, both held offices and had many “callings”. Now, with his serious illness, she is depressed and afraid. I suggested to her that her ward would probably help them and suggested food stamps, food bank etc. She seems unwilling to go to her church for help. When she went through heart surgery, I was the only one with her hubby in the waiting room. When he went through open heart surgery just a few months ago, I was the only one with her in that same waiting room. I was at the hospital many hours and only saw one of the church members come to visit. I know that they have not been well enough to do their “callings” and maybe they have stopped with the tithe since he is not working. Could this be the reason that they are so alone? Not to worry, I will always get them help when I see the need, but seems their church who is so “family” oriented would be right at their door helping.

My friend used to do a lot of canning and freeze drying of fruit but has not been able to do it in the last few years. Seems that others would share their stash with them??

Off the subject a bit. Over the years, I have noticed how upset and depressed LDS become when they are ill and are very afraid to die. This includes my father-in-law, his brothers, sisters,my friends father and her mother who is very ill. On the other hand, my father was the perfect role model knowing he was dying, his family members and my mothers family were also ready to meet Jesus. The difference in the “acceptance” was 360 degrees. Can anyone explain this or had the same experiences?

Love and peace,
Mom of 5
 
Mom_of_5 said:
My good friend and her hubby, (LDS) are going through tough times. He is quite ill and her health is not good. They have tithed to LDS even though they could not afford to, both held offices and had many “callings”. Now, with his serious illness, she is depressed and afraid. I suggested to her that her ward would probably help them and suggested food stamps, food bank etc. She seems unwilling to go to her church for help. When she went through heart surgery, I was the only one with her hubby in the waiting room. When he went through open heart surgery just a few months ago, I was the only one with her in that same waiting room. I was at the hospital many hours and only saw one of the church members come to visit. I know that they have not been well enough to do their “callings” and maybe they have stopped with the tithe since he is not working. Could this be the reason that they are so alone? Not to worry, I will always get them help when I see the need, but seems their church who is so “family” oriented would be right at their door helping.

My friend used to do a lot of canning and freeze drying of fruit but has not been able to do it in the last few years. Seems that others would share their stash with them??

Off the subject a bit. Over the years, I have noticed how upset and depressed LDS become when they are ill and are very afraid to die. This includes my father-in-law, his brothers, sisters,my friends father and her mother who is very ill. On the other hand, my father was the perfect role model knowing he was dying, his family members and my mothers family were also ready to meet Jesus. The difference in the “acceptance” was 360 degrees. Can anyone explain this or had the same experiences?

Love and peace,
Mom of 5
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Perhaps the reason they are afraid is because they believe they will be judged almost exclusively by their works. We all fall short and there is always more that we could have done. Maybe some Mormons feel as if they haven’t done enough to measure up to God’s standards so they fear how God will judge them.
 
tundramom said:
I well remember my Mom storing food for ages. In the 70’s, when the idea of a food storage really was the big thing in Mormonism, there were hoards of people who came to Utah with the idea of selling products to all. My Mom and so many others in our home ward bought into the idea and I well remember 50 gallon barrels of wheat and other things… without the use of a grinder, mind you. These things could not be rotated by a family of 5 in any manner. Especially since it was our “food storage and we can’t touch it until we need it”. I had a brother in law who had enough seeds and supplies including gasoline to start his own commune after Armageddon, while his children went without dental care…
There was gallons and gallons of water and every kind of home canned foods, or with the Deseret label on it shoved into every nook and cranny of the house.

When my Father died, my Mom opened the food storage. Much of it had spoiled. Some of it was horrible. Us kids ended up doing janitorial work and working at the cannery to “earn” the church “welfare” to feed us all.

Jump forward a few years and I was a young pregnant newlywed who had been confined to bed for the last 5 months of my pregnancy. my ex-husband and I were living in St George at the time. He was going to school full time and I was under Drs orders to stay prone unless to relieve myself or shower. Otherwise I would lose my baby. I called the Relief Society president and she came to my house and told me that if my husband and myself would come to church and pay tithing for 3 months, we could get help. I explained to her that I wasn’t able to hold a calling… I wasn’t able to sit through a meeting… I was unable to work in the fields and I was the only bread earner, since my husband was going to school full time. We were denied church “welfare”.

Yeah… Mormons take care of their own. :rolleyes:

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Steph
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That’s really sad.
 
Oh yeah? Well, I heard somewhere that there might be a group of Mormans banding together with a group of Baptists and their goal is to take over the world!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! :eek: :eek: :eek:

Oh, wait, that was a movie about aliens and the government. Nevermind.

I think we all take ourselves way too seriously sometimes. I know our beliefs are not to be taken lightly, but to take a topic like this and start twisting it into an anti Morman thing is silly. That’s why some people might say that “those silly Catholics are always thinking that we’re after them.” I can see where they get it. I for one cannot stand when someone starts saying that all Catholics are this way, and all Catholics are that way. If it’s not part of our faith and doctrine, then they shouldn’t say that. But we sometimes (I’m guilty myself) do the same exact thing to other religions. We take one experience or story, that is not representitive of the religion’s teachings, and we turn it into an “all of those” story.

In the end, we’ll find out who was right soon enough.
 
Mom_of_5 said:
My good friend and her hubby, (LDS) are going through tough times. He is quite ill and her health is not good. They have tithed to LDS even though they could not afford to, both held offices and had many “callings”. Now, with his serious illness, she is depressed and afraid. I suggested to her that her ward would probably help them and suggested food stamps, food bank etc. She seems unwilling to go to her church for help. When she went through heart surgery, I was the only one with her hubby in the waiting room. When he went through open heart surgery just a few months ago, I was the only one with her in that same waiting room. I was at the hospital many hours and only saw one of the church members come to visit. I know that they have not been well enough to do their “callings” and maybe they have stopped with the tithe since he is not working. Could this be the reason that they are so alone? Not to worry, I will always get them help when I see the need, but seems their church who is so “family” oriented would be right at their door helping.

My friend used to do a lot of canning and freeze drying of fruit but has not been able to do it in the last few years. Seems that others would share their stash with them??

Off the subject a bit. Over the years, I have noticed how upset and depressed LDS become when they are ill and are very afraid to die. This includes my father-in-law, his brothers, sisters,my friends father and her mother who is very ill. On the other hand, my father was the perfect role model knowing he was dying, his family members and my mothers family were also ready to meet Jesus. The difference in the “acceptance” was 360 degrees. Can anyone explain this or had the same experiences?

Love and peace,
Mom of 5
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Frankly, your friends should NOT be ashamed to ask for the help they need. They were faithful and dutiful LDS members for years, and part of the ‘social contract’ of the LDS Church is that members CAN and SHOULD ask for help if needs arise. I tend to agree with some of the other posters that their feelings of depression and their reluctance to seek help have much to do with the emphasis that Mormons put upon performance–and, frankly, on successful performance–as a guage of spirituality.

Mormons do NOT have a monopoly on this by the way: some Roman Catholics feel they are ‘failures’ as Christians if they do not do a requisite number of Rosaries, attend Mass with sufficient piety, etcetera. Other churches suffer the same problem: even the Baptists and Lutherans, with their stress on grace and faith, find that in the real-world of ‘churchianity’ there is a tendency to want to guage one’s spirituality by one’s performance.

I think Mormons and other heretical groups have this works-based emphasis to a greater degree than mainstream Protestants and Roman Catholics, but the tendency is still something found in every Christian association with which I am familiar, to one degree or another.

And, as was just pointed out by Pira, some things need to be acknowledged as just being good common sense. Food storage and a measure of personal preparedness and personal stewardship is one of those things. I don’t feel we should slight the Mormons for their activities, even if we feel that our churches need not emulate them.
 
“…every man and woman must have the certificate of Joseph Smith, junior, as a passport to their entrance into the mansion where God and Christ are…”
Brigham Young.

brothers and sisters in Christ, it is about Jesus, not Joseph Smith.

let us trust in the Triune God and in Holy Mother Church.

thanks for reading the meanderings of this now-freer woman who was subject to the foregoing rantings for over 37 years.

God bless everyone.
 
I don’t believe that storing food and feeding the poor are mutally exclusive. My family does food storage AND assists the poor in the form of donations to food pantries and financial donations.

If there are hard times, i.e. my husband or I lose a job, one of our bothers or sisters families falls on hard times, we will be able to live without having to become dependant on the government for food.

I have noticed the prices at the grocery store are increasing rapidly. On 11/26 store brand oatmeal was $1.69, on 12/1 the price had increased to $2.19. This increase is true for many other items as well. With food storage, I can wait for these items to go on sale before I need to purchase them again. Allowing me to save money to assist those who are in need.
 
In Genesis 41, God has Joseph store up grain for the 7 years of famine. This allowed them to be a shelter to the poor
 
pira114 said:
Oh yeah? Well, I heard somewhere that there might be a group of Mormans banding together with a group of Baptists and their goal is to take over the world!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! :eek: :eek: :eek:

Oh, wait, that was a movie about aliens and the government. Nevermind.
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Actually, the Mormons and the Baptists did get together…and they had a BBQ.(sorry if you are not familiar with LDS cinema…not that big of an industry)
imdb.com/title/tt0391104/
 
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