Good-bye 2020 and Hello 2021! Happy New Year everyone!

I have been reading Rick Heyland’s book “live Your Purpose” and Simon Sinek’s book “Find your Why” which was a follow-up to his book “Start with Why”. Hope you get where I am going with this. We need to find our WHY for emergency preparedness before it will become important to us. It may be the feeling you had when you experienced the recent earthquake along the Wasatch front. Or maybe the wind storm, or maybe the protests and riot of recent. Or maybe the election didn’t quite turnout the way you had hoped. Or maybe you felt the spirit as our Church leaders shared in the last conference the importance of preparedness. For whatever reason, it will not be important to you until you find your why.

Funny thing is, it has been important to me for about the last 20 years. To the point my family kind of thinks I am paranoid, which I am not, I just like being prepared. It probably stems from my many adventures in young men's backpacking and camping. I loved the idea I could survive for a week with everything on my back and what nature can share with me. The feeling of being self-reliant in extreme situations is energizing for me. That’s probably why I have so many backpacking and preparedness books in my library. They give me new ideas of how I can become even more prepared. Please consider me one of the many resources in the ward who can help you prepare for the unknown future.

In President Nelson’s 2020 October Relief Society Meeting talk "Embrace the Future with Faith", he asked “If preparation is our key to embracing this dispensation and our future with faith, how can we best prepare?” And then the answer “For decades, the Lord’s prophets have urged us to store food, water, and financial reserves for a time of need. The current pandemic has reinforced the wisdom of that council. I urge you to take steps to be temporally prepared. But I am even more concerned about your spiritual and emotional preparations.” I would encourage everyone to re-read or listen to this talk.

So with that, Draper 15th Ward, let’s Get Ready!

We now have help. The D15W emergency preparedness committee will be creating every other week to a D15WGetReady newsletters. You can sign up to get the emails at https://mailchi.mp/3f1c085f8ad8/d15wgetready. We also will have a facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/draperfifteenth.emprep.7. We are thinking about a setting up website for downloadable items and past articles. The newsletter will have info so sign up now!

Our first assignment is to set personal and family goals. What do you really want to accomplish this new year? Find your Why and write those goals down.

Thanks for joining us on this new preparedness journey!

Dallas Moore, Kelly Jackson, Kyle Swainston

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