Combat Multipliers.

Combat Multipliers.

Emergency Preparedness – Combat Multipliers.        In combat some weapons, equipment or personnel prove to be exponential in their power to effect results on the battlefield.  Their contribution or absence proves to be key to the outcome.       Today’s battles, even with very high tech communications equipment, sometimes require the surest means for message traffic — hand and arm signals.      Deacons are critical to command functions that Bishops shoulder.  As messengers for the Bishop they can be a…

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Support Our Troops.

Support Our Troops.

Emergency Preparedness – Support Our Troops.        “To none is freedom more dear than to those who have bled and fought to preserve it.”      The USO is a great organization few seem to know much about.  “Isn’t it a government program from World War II to entertain the troops,” questioned a traveler who saw their sign in a major US airport?      Like the Boy Scouts, the USO is chartered by Congress as a non-profit public funded organization…

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“Behold Your Little Ones.”

“Behold Your Little Ones.”

Emergency Preparedness – “Behold Your Little Ones.”       According to a UN report currently 52,000 children under age eight in third world countries die each day for want of basic living essentials.  That means that through the Savior’s atonement the Celestial Kingdom is expanding by over 18,980,000 souls each year.      Most of the suffering in the world comes from lack of opportunity.  For little children God makes allowances.  The rest of us He blesses with opportunities.  Take all…

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Sunshine Has A Price.

Sunshine Has A Price.

Emergency Preparedness – Sunshine Has A Price.        “The first storm took down all of our trees.  The next three worked on our houses.”      Floridians will long remember late summer of 2004 when their state was hit by category 3 to 5 hurricanes an average of one every two weeks for 6 weeks.      Imagine what you would do if half of your neighbors’ houses suddenly disassembled and half of your own roof lifted off, too.  Expect 18…

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Love or Money?

Love or Money?

Emergency Preparedness – Love or Money?        As the title suggests, there are only two reasons people go to work.  Fortunate is the person who can love what they do so much that they “go to play each day” instead of go to work at a job they hate.      The great department store founder Marshall Field sought the following qualities in his hires: 1.  The importance of people.                               7.  The influence of example. 2.  The success of perseverance.                         …

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Employment Times — They Are A Changin.

Employment Times — They Are A Changin.

Emergency Preparedness – Employment Times –They Are A Changin.        The US Bureau of Labor Statistics released the following 2003 data about “the digital future”: SHRINKING OCCUPATIONS      Median 2002 Earnings      Projected Jobs Decline by 2012   Travel Agents                                                $27,000                                   -16,000 Order Clerks                                                    $25,000                                   -19,000 Loan Interviewers & Clerks                          $28,000                                   -24,000 Computer Operators                                      $30,000                                   -30,000 Secretaries                                                       $33,400                                   -57,000 Word Processors & Typists                        $27,000                                   -93,000  GROWING OCCUPATIONS                                                     Projected Jobs Increases by 2012 Security Guards                                              $19,000                                  +317,000 General & Operations Managers                 $68,200                                  +376,000 Janitors…

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“An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure.”

“An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure.”

Emergency Preparedness – “An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure.”       “I lightly fertilize my yard and garden the first day of every quarter.  I do my houseplants only on New Years Day after I’ve checked all my vehicle brakes and tires.   I don’t want to be surprised during the year.”      My next-door neighbor’s yard was always greenest and his vehicles seldom broke down.  I was 12 when he became my example, but I didn’t…

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“A Perfect Love Casteth Out All Fear.”

“A Perfect Love Casteth Out All Fear.”

Emergency Preparedness – “A Perfect Love Casteth Out All Fear.”      Most people fear God for the poverty He might see fit to inflict upon them, rather than bargain with Him through faith, tithes, and offerings that bring the needful opportunities that make His saints rich.      “Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.”  (Proverbs 23:12)      Priesthood and Relief Society leaders:  use your emergency preparedness specialists for the knowledge, resources, and instruction they…

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The Department of Repetitive Redundancy Department

The Department of Repetitive Redundancy Department

Emergency Preparedness – The Department of Repetitive Redundancy Department.      “Tie this rope on that concrete anchor,” said my friend.  “I’m going after him.”      A nine year old boy had tumbled over 300 feet from the summit of Mt. Timpanogus on the annual hike of 1967.  My friend, a first-aider from the National Ski Patrol, had just asked me to be surety for his life.       I was never stellar with knot tying in Boy Scouts, but I knew…

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Add A Little Spice to Your Life

Add A Little Spice to Your Life

Emergency Preparedness – Add A Little Spice to Your Life        Nothing has had a more profound effect on the world of commerce and history than mans quest for good taste.  Salt, pepper, and spices have been the driving force behind conquests and discoveries from the earliest times.  The Egyptians, Phoenicians, European Imperialists, etc., all began, searching for spice routes.  Even Columbus was sailing to find a new westerly route to the Far East spice sources when he discovered…

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