Blessings of Being Prepared

Continuing on with the Old Testament this week, I read about the whole situation with Joseph and his brothers. Joseph is cast off into prison and there he interprets dreams. Eventually he is able to interpret the Pharaoh's dream about the seven years of plenty followed by seven years of famine. Because Joseph could prophesy of this, it allowed the people to gather and store food during the plentiful years so when the famine came, they were able to survive. Not everyone listened and followed this. Ironically, the many brothers of Joseph who wanted to slay him needed food during the famine and their father, Jacob tells them to collect food from their own brother in Egypt.
Now, the prophets and leaders of our Church today tell us to be prepared for emergencies and even more stress food storage. I think the story of Joseph stands as a testimony of how important those principles are. We have been told to store food and be prepared for emergencies just like Joseph was told through the dreams of Pharoah. Because Joseph prepared not only himself but the nation, he and others were blessed.

Aside from reading the Old Testament, this week was filled with memorizing all 489 terms for my anatomy midterm tomorrow (yep I counted them). So if you ever have a question about which muscles insert on the intertubercular groove in your humerus, you can ask me!