"Many more people could ride out the storm-tossed waves in their economic lives if they had their year's supply of food and were debt free. Today we find that many have followed this counsel in reverse: They have at least a year's supply of debt and are food-free."
President Thomas S. Monson
I had never heard of food storage until I joined my church. I didn't understand it for awhile but I saw others in our church preparing for anything that could happen. In these latter-days, I see now why it has been such an important counsel to start food storage and become debt free.
Our family didn't really start preparing until last year. I started feeling the promptings from the Holy Ghost that we need to start doing this NOW and it was confirmed through my spouse that he was feeling the same way. We have built up a 10 month food supply but it needs to be longer than that.
