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foggy
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Date: October 14, 2010 11:32AM
For my whole life I remember my parents being very concerned about having food storage. We had a whole room in the basement full of food, the 72 hour backpacks in the upstairs closet, and the obligatory giant blue barrels of water. (The big treat come conference time was eating the MRE's from the 72 hr kits and replacing them with different ones...)
Once we started moving out of the house, my mom sent us with this little box of survival things that she said was to "get us through" until we could hike back home to the big room of food. Now that my husband and I have finally bought a house, she called me up to ask if he would be ok with them giving us some buckets of wheat and rice to store in our basement so she would feel better. I told her sure, figuring we'd stack the 2 or 3 buckets in the corner of the little storage room and then forget about them. (We are trying very hard not to end up with the basement full of junk that both our parents have accumulated)
Last night she pulls her SUV up to our garage and opens the back. It is completely full of buckets, so I ask her who else they're for. She cheerfully says, "Oh, they're all for you guys," then a little downtrodden adds "but you can choose how much to take."
I tell her we'll take 2 buckets of wheat and 2 oats. She then pulls out a couple cases of water bottles and proceeds to tell me that they are going to the cannery next week and she has already ordered us a couple boxes of rice and pasta and a few other things. (Luckily my husband just shook his head and laughed a little when I relayed this)
I'm not sure if she is just more concerned now that all her children are out of her house and protection, or if she's heard something at church that makes her feel more strongly that something wicked this way comes. When I asked a few TBM co-workers, one of them said "Oh, she must have had a revelation" and they all nodded in agreement (CREEPY!)
A few comments from my aunt make me think she's convinced that the mormons are going to be 'called upon' to leave Salt Lake. That also fits with the fact that they bought a trailer and the SUV and have also recently been trying to resurrect the ancient motorhome that's been sitting on the side of their house for ages.
Does anyone know if there was some conference talk that made her think this? Or some RS lesson or something?