Blog of the Week: Prepare Today Newsletter

Another Perspective:

This is a collection of information to assist others in their preparedness efforts and to help them be ready for the challenges which are coming.

The Prepare Today Newsletter is a blog authored by a ward preparedness specialist from California. It provides a slightly different view of emergency preparedness, particularly since Californians face an entirely different set of hazards from their environment. They have fires and earthquakes, we have hurricanes and ice storms, etc. Added to the other resources available to us, this blog adds its bit of harmony to the same tune we know so well.

Here is a snippet of one article, a bit of commentary entitled "Musings of a Ward Preparedness Chairman":

Why is it so many saints are unenthusiastic about getting their food storage and emergency supplies?

For some it's a matter of money – both too little money and, curiously enough, too much money. The challenge for those with limited funds is more understandable than those who have what can only be termed "abundance". We live in an area with large numbers of prosperous members who don't have their food storage – why?

This is something I've wondered about a lot and recently gained additional insight from reading the observations of an online forum moderator named NeatBrian.

Read the complete article.

Things to know:

URL: http://preparetodaynewsletter.blogspot.com/
Author: A Californian ward preparedness specialist; otherwise anonymous
Emphasis: Emergency Preparedness
Rating: 4/5

Blog of the Week: Lucy's Frugal Living

"Free Advice 5 cents"

If you don't know our own dear Lucy Stern very well, her blog is a great place to start. Lucy never wearies in well-doing, and extends her exertions onto the Internet . Her recipe for blog success:

• Mix together equal parts:
• Homemaking skills
• Emergency preparedness
• Food storage
• Frugal living
• Season with:
• A dash of politics
• A pinch of homily
• A healthy dollop of hard-won wisdom
• Mix well, then top with
  
• A generous layer of wide-ranging recipes.
• Enjoy!
  

Things to know:

URl: http://lucysfrugalliving.blogspot.com
Author: Lucy Stern
Emphasis: homemaking skills, emergency preparedness, food storage & frugal living
Rating: 5/5
Comment: With a two o'clock Sunday meeting time, her crockpot collection is a must!

Preach My Gospel

LDSBlogs.com

• As a forum of discussion, with posts from many different contributors, this site is an ideal reference for positive information about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and yet independent of it. Share this with those investigating the Gospel who want to hear the voice of 'normal' people. Like FAIRlds.org, LDSBlogs.com is not owned or affiliated with the Church, expresses the views only of the contributors and not necessarily those of its sponsor, The More Good Foundation, also unaffiliated with the Church. However, LDSBlogs.net is, well, a blog and based on opinion by its very nature, whereas FAIRlds.org addresses the issues from a more scholarly angle.
• The More Good Foundation also sponsors several other web pages and applications, including the LDS application on Facebook, Mormon Testimonies, and LDSFind.com, a Mormon search engine.
• Their Share The Gospel Online offers several excellent suggestions as to how you can follow Elder Ballard's counsel.
  

Today's Additions

• Houston Metro Area LDS Single Adults Group. Find this link on our home page. This group includes far too much material for me to keep up with, including email lists and discussions, activity calendars and announcements from stake SA committees, Beaumont to College Station, and Conroe and Cleveland to Richmond and Friendswood. I'll try to keep the Northside activities updated on our calendar, but the best thing to do is subscribe to this group.
• New Blog Feature: Link of the Day. Hopefully, we'll help you utilize the resources of the Internet to help make your life easier, keep you informed, and perhaps even learn something. However, this will definitely have to be a group project, to submit as many as you like! The Great Links page on OORS will also be updated with these links.
  
• New Blog Feature: Steadfast Faith in Christ: a Missionary Journal. I hope y'all don't think I'm just a bit too self-indulgent in putting the link to my family's missionary page on this blog. However, it is one small effort to follow Elder Ballard's counsel in using the Internet to share the Gospel, so, I need to raise the visibility of it, to speak out, if you will. We also have a reverse sort of page, that being uplifting letters written to missionaries which help to share our testimonies, but I'm still debating as to whether or not to put a permanent link on this blog. In case you're interested, it's URL is http://amormonfamilyjournal.blogspot.com. I would very much like to fill the side bar with similar links, voices you raise to help spread the Good News. Let me know what they are, send me any graphics you'd like to use, and I'll make certain they get on this blog page!
• New Blog Feature: Preach My Gospel: There are a myriad of resources available from the Church to help you answer your friends' questions about the Gospel. I'll try to share these links as they come to me, and again, welcome any submissions. When I've exhausted the specifically 'missionary' resources, I'll start to highlight the great features of LDS.org. OORS will also be updated with these links.