Being prepared

Yesterday I received a huge testimony on food storage. So it is Sunday afternoon and the water goes out in our neighborhood and another one next door. A main pipe line burst and it was going to take several hours to fix. So we had no water for anything. Yikes...not because we had bottled waters. This was really good because we were having company over and we could still provide refreshments for them. Then we had another problem how were we going to use the bathroom? No one could flush the toilets and Adam's mom told us all we had to go at the church when we went for Visiting Teaching interviews and a fireside. Than my mother-in-law became truly inspired. She had these bottles of soda that were filled with water in her basement. She told us each to take two to our bathrooms and when we needed to flush or wash our hands we could use that water. So we had water to drink, bottled, and go to the restroom. I wondered how many people had nothing and were in a bit of a crisis due to this event happening on a Sunday afternoon. We were taken cared of because she had been prepared. My mother-in-law is one of my role models. She always amazes me. I would have never thought of refilling the toilet tank so that I could keep flushing the toilet when needed. I think she is so smart. Let this be a lesson that emergencies can happen at anytime, anywhere, and any day. Be prepared for those little unexpected moments.