13 Weeks of FHE

When the time comes to use your food storage items - either in an emergency or in your day-to-day meal planning - one thing you'll want to know is the shelf life of your items once they have been opened. Knowing how long you have to use dehydrated or freeze-dried foods after opening them will ensure that your food storage is put to its best use and none of your storage efforts (or money) will be wasted.

1. President Kimball called the Tokyo temple dedication as “the most significant and important event in the history of Asia.”

The following has been republished with permission from taylorhalverson.com.

The general president of the Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints says malnutrition can strike families anywhere in the world.

Two Latter-day Saint couples in the Philippines played an integral role in the Church since it was first established in their country nearly 60 years ago.

On September 11th, 1857, a group of Latter-day Saint militiamen persuaded a band of passing emigrants to march down a trail in Mountain Meadows, Utah. Under the pretense of protection and following the orders of their local Church leaders, these militiamen proceeded to execute 120 men, women, and children.

To set the stage for the present discussion, I will return to a quote from President David O. McKay:

With the arrival of summer comes the performance of many faith-promoting pageants and plays presenting anything from the restoration of the gospel to the Resurrection of Christ. While some of these pageants have already occurred this year, there are still several coming up, or you can plan to take your family next year! Admission to all of the following pageants is free, but some may require reservations. Check the websites for details.

Saim Abd al-Samid was born in Constantinople (now Istambul), Turkey, probably in the late 1870s (there remains much research to do before his story can be fully known). He was a member of an upper-class family, and received an excellent education, graduating from “the highest official institution” of that city as a civil engineer/surveyor. Whether it was his family ties or his professional accomplishments that were responsible, in 1901 he arrived in Aintab, Syria (now Gazientep, Turkey), as a member of the city council where he was known as Saim Effendi (Effendi being a Turkish title indicating Saim’s place in Ottoman society).Aintab is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, dating back to the ancient Hittites, and being known in the history of the Assyrians, Babylonians, Romans, Byzantines, and other conquerors. At the turn of the 20th century, Aintab was home to about 45,000 people. Two-third of the population were Muslim, as was Saim Effendi; one-third were Christian, largely Armenians. In 1901, when Saim Effendi arrived at Aintab, that town was home to one of the Latter-day Saints’ two largest branches (the other being Aleppo, 60 miles to the south). “Largest” is a relative term, of course; after more than 15 years of proselyting in Turkey and Syria, the Aintab branch had a few dozen members, led by missionaries “from Zion.” In 1901, those missionaries included Joseph Wilford Booth of Alpine, Utah, who, by the time he died in Haifa, Israel, in 1928, had devoted 30 years of his life to the Saints of the Middle East, during multiple missions and while working for their survival and support during short returns home. Elder Booth’s companion was Lester Mangum, another young man of Utah County (he is the “Mangum” of BYU’s “Knight-Mangum Hall”).