Living Providently as Sisters in the Gospel

Welcome to the new site for Provident Living! To view posts older than October 2010, click here. We are so excited to get started learning and teaching each other how to beautify our lives by living providently!

To live providently is to be wise in all our doings, whether it be with finances, resources, preparedness, etc. This blog will post all upcoming activities and seminars, and also post pictures and results of the events.

President Marion G. Romney said in the March 2009 Ensign, "we must preserve our talents of self-sufficiency, our genious for creating things for ourselves, our sense of thrift and our true love of independence." By meeting together as the Relief Society and teaching each other valuable skills, we not only build a solid sisterhood, but we better prepare ourselves to help others in time of need. "How can we give if there is nothing there? Food for the hungry cannot come from empty shelves. Money to assist the needy cannot come from an empty purse. Support and understanding cannot come from the emotionally starved. And most important of all, spiritual guidance cannot come from the spiritually weak."

Some examples of the things we might learn about are recycling old clothes, spending wisely, growing and canning your own food, navigating the internet, and being prepared for emergencies. "Outwardly, every act seems to be directed toward the physical: re-making of dresses and suits of clothes, canning fruits and vegetables, storing foodstuffs, choosing of fertile fields for settlement - all seem strictly temporal, but permeating all these acts, inspiring and sanctifying them, is the element of spirituality."

In a comment below, please tell what you would like to learn from these activities, and what knowledge or resources you might be able to contribute! It could be something already listed above, or something else.