He called to invite us to the family disaster prep home evening. This after I got those texts last week from my SIL re: her bishop asked her to take an inventory of our entire extended family's food/water supplies.

Really? Why would they think we are interested in any family home evening, much less one where we would disclose how much ammo, weapons, & emergency supplies we have?

Maybe it shouldn't bother me so much, but it still f*cking bothers me. I declined, maybe a bit rudely. I feel strangely proud of myself. Is that wrong?

Yay! I was biting my nails until I got to the word declined.

You will master the classy refusals soon enough. I've got your number.

I can understand how getting invited to an FHE where your possessions would be inventoried by a church you neither believe in or belong to in order to prepare for a end-of-the-world scenario you really don't see coming would annoy the heck out of you. Mormons just presume everyone that was ever Mormon secretly, if not outwardly, agrees with them. They also fear having to feed you if the worst happens. My mom would visit my sister in college and buy food storage for her, so she'd be OK til she could refugee home to where the real stockpiles were. She'd buy nasty freeze-dried crap too, so my sister wouldn't be tempted to eat it if money were tight one month. It was meant for Armageddon.

Standing up for yourself is never wrong - you should be proud. Even if you went because you were mildly interested in the 72-hour kit aspect of it, like the Red Cross recommends, it would have deteriorated into religion and prophecy. And the inventory for the ward aspect of is creepy to me. Tell them thanks, no thanks and move on. They aren't trying to be rude but are assuming you share an interest in something they are interested in. You were smart to set your boundaries.

I hope you clued the bitches in on what precise part of "MY stuff" was none of their effing business.

Mormons - finding a new way to be nosey as hell every day of the year.

don't do it!!!!! this is none of those mormon's business. The mormons want it done, so they can take you stuff away from you in the name of the church. If something were to happen they would make you feel guilty for not giving the stuff up. Communism

I guess one of the reasons I am so bugged is this: after our dog died last weekend, some family members converged on our house in the name of sympathy early Sunday morning. You know, just to remind us of the plan of salvation, blah, blah, blah. Maybe they mentioned it before I told a certain sibling to basically gtfo of my house. I can't remember.
How long does it take for them to stop trying to save the heathens?

Frankie and these other posters have their number. Think about the temple pledge. Your stuff is their stuff and they want to know where it is so they don't have to spend your tithing money to buy it.

They'll just come to your house and go Law of Consecration on you.


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The most messed up mo I have ever met was a refugee from a fringe mo survivalist group. I can't get my head around the type of logic that drives the teaching of survivalist dogma.

Good for you for refusing. We are prepared for a a disaster, but not end times. So far this year I've been in three earth quakes one a 7.1 haven't needed to crack open my first aid kit yet.

Mormons are so stupid. It would take the general public about 5 minutes to remember/learn that those crazy Mormons horde large amounts of food in a major disaster.

would be the LAST thing anyone would want to, or even be ABLE to use.

I highly doubt anyone is going to want to chew wheat kernels when they get hungry and the power is out.

I had to laugh when one Louisiana woman was asked about her lasting memories of Katrina. She said she would never forget the smell of the water with rotting bodies, second only to the smell of wet storage wheat after it got wet and burst its metal storage container.


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