Melva Gifford

These are notes from an emergency fair/book of Mormon evidence conference I attended last spring.

There are patterns and cycles in history. A study of history can reveal such patterns.

Mark 13: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+13

Luke 21, Christ preaching in the Temple.  https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=luke+21&version=NIV

Matthew 24 sequence of events 20 – 24

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=mathew+20&version=NIV

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=mathew+21&version=NIV

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=mathew+22&version=NIV

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=mathew+23&version=NIV

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=mathew+24&version=NIV

Events outlined by the Savior:

Matthew 24:2: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+24%3A2&version=NIV

Mark 13:7

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+13%3A7+&version=NIV

Luke 21:5 – 7

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+21%3A5+%E2%80%93+7&version=NI

Luke 21:8-12

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+21%3A8+%E2%80%93+12&version=NI

Apostles persecuted and killed.

Any inaccuracies of these notes is the fault of the note taker or because her bad penmanship. This is one of those times it would’ve been nice to have the gift of tongues to interpret said penmanship. Comments on the prophets: The Lord has prepared places of safety.  ou are the generation to meet your God.

• Emergency preparedness means to think ahead
• This is our generation.
• Events will happen to the old as well as the young. Older can help the young.
• Be prepared is not just physically but also spiritually.
• Some think that if we do our church callings home teaching visiting teaching and genealogy ,we will be ready for the last days but we must prepare ourselves physically as well.

Church has provided these instructions:

1. Learn to garden and prepare food storage. Church has provided a website for preparedness. Began by Pres. Olson and presidency.
2. It is important to train all leaders in all branches of the Ward for the separate responsibilities of preparation.
3. There are now full-time missionaries (such a sister Walden) dedicated to emergency preparation.
4. One of the commandments is to obey the law of the land. It’s for that reason that the church says to have a least three months of food preparation rather than what they used to say as having want to use preparation. If they say the latter they will be labeled as a terrorist organization.
5. Lord will step in and inspire you of what to do when you face challenges with yourself and your family.
6. Hillcrest ready.org website. Check it out.
7. Here are some of the items listed under the Quick links.
   Sign up for newsletter. There are about 10 issues a year.
   Like the Hillcrest Facebook page.
   Watch the YouTube channel dedicated to emergency preparedness reveals.
   Sign up for the emergency form will you and be notified of events

   Take a look at the flood map. In our ward area that is a possibility will have 2 feet of water if the damn breaks.
   Red Cross mobile links to notify you of challenges elsewhere in the country we have loved ones living.
   Kel Goodman will be posting the August 2015 details that occurred at emergency fair this last summer.
   Members of the Ward can share their knowledge on the website as well.

Other suggestions:

• Block captains have the task of helping their assigned Street. Such things are important to know is who and what house needs oxygen in case of emergency or needs their diabetic medicine.
• Block meetings is the most important part of the emergency preparation project. It gives the opportunity for neighbors to meet neighbors.
• Emerging preparedness is not a ward activity is a neighborhood activity. They involve member and nonmembers alike in a common goal.
• The Bishopric is responsible for arranging search and rescue teams.
• Relief society, young women’s, and primary are responsible for the relief of the injured from emergencies.
• The importance of neighborhood support is for less damaged communities to help those who are severely damaged
• Open areas of space are a great place to host staging areas (areas for first aid, shared resources etc.)
• Read, yellow, and green cards help a household notify their status to their surrounding neighbors by posting the appropriate color to the window.
• Youth groups could do a scavenger hunt to gather supplies for emergency.
• Important to have water storage in the house in case of outside conditions preventing you from leaving the house.
• Reserve one of your family home evening nights to host different emergency scenarios such as fire earthquake flood etc. so that the family has an idea of what to do in the various scenarios.
• People do drills so that citizens know what to do under certain scenarios. In the Baltic Sea in 1994 there is a bad ferry accident. Passengers were so shocked they just stood there until they drowned.
• In a plane accident, most of the passengers just sat there in shock. The only two people who survived were couple who immediately exited a hole in the floor of the plane and ran from the plane before it exploded.
• Think in advance of how you respond to different circumstances. The training we get by an airline stewardess is an example I think of your own actions in different locations.
• JC & Morgan Company (I think) hired someone to train their employees for emergencys. He had the ladies have a spare set of keds at the desks and then practiced exiting the building in case of emergency. That training helped them in a real emergency.
• One of the challenges of people fleeing from the twin towers was of ladies abandoning their shoes in the stairways and the others tripping over those shoes because the steps were dark.
• In proper evacuation style the people in the upper floors should exit first. The last version should close the door behind them and then the next floor below it beneath them is as follows.
• Be prepared for an earthquake in the middle of the night.
• In Spokane Oregon the people spent five days without power. They lost all their food in the freezers and fridges. Keep in the freezer door close does not preserve food for long evening in freezing conditions.
• Get CRT training. CRTs take care of survivors and injured when the help is available. Other help is not guaranteed to arrive in timely manner.
• Get amateur radio training this is a key source of communication.
• Harvard study learned that as a group people survive, alone they die.
• California study told the importance of training the locals for potential emergencies.
• FEMA has a joke, ‘let us know of your emergency three months in advance’. They don’t come in time to help is needed.
• Hospitals have the capacity to store’s five dead bodies. There will be an estimated of 7% dead in an earthquake in Utah.
• You need to store fuel, water, food. Could you cook a meal if you had no power?
• A prudent person takes precautions

Melva’s personal recommendations:

• Why not give away emergency stuff as Christmas presents for self, family and friends.
• Set a date two times a year for checking batteries changing the water recycling food and supplies in your 72 hour kits. Time change dates of conference are two possibilities.
• I realized most of my water supply is all stored outside. One of my personal assignments is to find a place where I can store more water inside my home.
• Have emergency stuff for pets not just humans.
• I have a friend whose daughter is constantly away from the home without her emergency medicines. If she was to ever have any car trouble and could not get home in time she could be in dire straits. If you have to have life-sustaining medicine always keep a week’s supply on your person at all times.
• Pay attention to events, people and objects around you.

The end.

Bad:    inguniety

Good: ingenuity

Display ingenuity involves a special kind of genius so that can help me remember the Gen. then the uity pronouncing at the end.

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I got some training at work on how to  catch malicious emails. Here are some notes I took.

• Phishing emails are fake emails created to trick a reader into revealing security information.
• Can’t tell what emails criminals use
• They use catchy subject lines
• Using your name doesn’t mean they know you
• Only click on links you know are safe
• At the bottom of emails it should be easy to verify if a worker with that name works at that phone number
• Large organizations generally don’t use public emails services like Gmail and yahoo thus this can identify a possible trap
• Be aware of emails that offer money
• Look for types or misspellings as professional organizations don’t usually make these types of mistakes
• Be careful of emails that ask for acct numbers or want to verify info through a link.
• Be aware of links and see if the logic of the name matches
• Giving you a deadline to respond is a frequently used ploy
• Problems in email used to scare you
• Don’t fill out forms in emails
• When you look at a link, hover your mouse over the link to see if link is displaying the path correctly.
• Scammers use legal sounds statements to sound legit such as a law or case number.
• Always confirm web address and phone number through other means than the email sent to you.. Hover your mouse over your contact info to confirm accurate info
• Avoid attachments. Before opening one, confirm it’s from a known source first
• Confirm phones numbers as scammers have fake call centers
• Email trick people by offering to give a prize
• Malicious attachments often attached to fake emails.

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What a wonderful way to do a children’s program for church. My compliments to the woman who came up with the idea to have children grouped not by class but as families consisting of brothers and sisters to talk about religious topics.

• The first advantage was to show the virtues of older siblings helping younger siblings give their part of the program.
• It’s also a great way for younger siblings to not be so afraid to give their part of the program is a standing next to the supportive brothers and sisters.
• It’s enjoyable to have an older sibling introduced their younger brothers and sisters in preparation to their part of the program.
• One part of the program even had father and mother participating and discussing their input on certain religious topics.
• Another advantage of this could be that some of the practice sessions could be conducted at home between those family remembers
• This is also a great opportunity to talk about certain subjects in a family environment as they practice their part of the program
• The audience the opportunity to see which children are members of what family
• The children are not seen just as individuals but also a part of the bigger picture, their family.
• As parents have their children practice their themes it gives a good opportunity for the parents to expound upon certain topics when their children have questions

I have to admit to date this is the most enjoyable children’s/primary program I’ve attended to date.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYjzCgvsZiA

Good: fortunately

Bad:   fourtunately

The number four is not in this word. A fortune may not have a limit so the number for would limit so we don’t have a four.

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