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Rows of #10 cans of food fill the shelves of an East Valley supply store. One of the tenets of the Mormon faith is preparedness, and that means having food on hand. While many around the country purchase supplies online, the large percentage of Mormons in the East Valley result in local stores stocking for their needs.
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ou’ve probably seen them in the bulk aisles at the WinCo in Chandler and various other East Valley megastores. You’re there to get hot dogs, baked beans and diet sodas for the weekend barbecue. The shopper beside you is filling her cart with heavy sacks of flour, rice and beans. She’s grabbing big cans of freeze-dried meals and piling up pallets of drinking water. On the drive home later, you wonder if
As Mormons in the East Valley prepare to celebrate Pioneer Day on July 24, we take a look at one of the church's key doctrines: Preparedness.
maybe you’ve encountered an East Valley doomsday prepper who stockpiles automatic weapons in addition to great quantities of food. Perhaps. But it’s much more likely that the neighbors
you saw at the store were average East Valley Mormons practicing their faith. In the brochure “All Is Safely Gathered In,” published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 2007 and still widely distributed, The First Presidency wrote: “We encourage Church members worldwide to prepare for adversity in life by having a basic supply of food and water and some money in savings.” See
MORMONS on page 4