February 2020 Back to Basics Newsletter

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February is known as the month of LOVE. We send valentines, bake cookies for neighbors, or “heart attack” the door of a loved friend. It is fun for the giver, and touching for the receiver when these acts of kindness and love are engaged in. Isn’t this then a wonderful month for us to show love to our families by the way we are prepared to care for them, no matter what happens in our lives? One of the final things the Savior said to his disciples before his crucifixion, was “As I have loved you, love one another.” Surely we are following the Savior as we show love to our families with good deeds and kind acts. But we also show our love when their temporal and spiritual needs are addressed. Let us love our family a little more this month. Let us be sure our cupboards are full, a 72 hour pack is ready, the scriptures are read, and prayers have been said. Let us love by Being Prepared!

Included in this month's newsletter:
Preparation Evaluation- A list of questions to check your preparedness, with ideas to help you answer the questions.
Preparing for the Future - A Quote by Elder L Tom Perry on the urgency of personal and family preparedness.
Earthquake Disaster Prep - A list of ideas to be ready for an earthquake.
In the Southern Utah Garden -  Things to do for February in your garden.
Provident Living & Preparedness Skills - Skills you can learn to help your self-sufficiency.
Cooking with Food Storage: Using Cornmeal - recipes for basic cornbread and variations, and Cornmeal Mush.
Fire it Up - Tips for fires and items to store.
Seeing the Light - Homemade Candles and Wicks - Recipes for 2 kinds of emergency candles, and homemade wicks.

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January 2020 Back to Basics Newsletter

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Happy New Year! As the song says: “Ring out the old, ring in the new! Ring happy bells across the snow. The year is going; let him go. Ring out the false, ring in the true.” A new year brings so many opportunities for us. It starts in “the bleak midwinter” – and looks to the blossom of the spring we know will come. It seems the perfect analogy of life. No matter what “winter day” we face, the warmth and growth of spring, and eventually summer, will follow. So it can be with our preparedness. If you have only begun your preparedness program – with the right efforts and planning – your storage and emergency system will blossom and grow too! As we make “New Year’s Resolutions,” let our preparedness status be at the top of the list! If we are prepared – we will not need to worry about the winter that we know will come again.  We will “sleep when the wind blows” and the storms arrive, and will be able to say, as Elder Joseph B Worthlin once said – “Come what may and love it.” Let this “new year” be the year we set in place a life of provident living that will bring us peace, confidence, and blessings. We will be prepared, and not fear!

Included in this issue:
Ring in the New - Preparedness Review: A list of items to review that you can include in a family preparedness program.
Time: using time wisely thought/poem.
Spiritual Preparedness: a quote from President Spencer W Kimball.
In the Southern UTah Garden: the 5 P's for your garden - Plan, Prune, Plant, Prevent, and Prepare.
Cooking with Food Storage: recipes to use food storage items for breakfast.
Thought for the day: on setting goals.
Companion Planting: a list of vegetables and the companions, allies and enemies.

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