OK where I live in the Pacific Northwest in January of this year this elder from the hall called a special meeting and gave everyone some papers that he had gotten from some government place on what to put in an emergency bag to grab in case you have to flee your home in seconds. I thought it was just my husbands hall being all strange and stupid over this. One older sister said that the elder told everyone they needed three bottles of water for 14 days that is 42 bottles of water plus whatever other stuff they put in there not sure if she got that right because 42 bottles of water is a lot of weight. This older sister said she was telling an even older sister who is in her 80's who is pioneering and can barely walk without help, that she just could not possibly lift her to go bag and the pioneer asked here where her faith is Jehovah was, that Jehovah could and would help her carry it when the need came.
So anywho at this special meeting another of the elders stood up and thanked the brother who put it all together and everyone was clapping and the elder who put it together started crying saying if he saves just one life it was worth it all I heard this from the older pioneer siste who got terry eyed just talking about it. This is the same guy who yelled at me about the pedophiles I guess saving a child from being raped is not as important ads making sure everyone has a to go bag.
There was even a story in the local paper about some JW's going into R.E.I. here and buying survival stuff for their bags. I was like oh please I wonder what the sales people at R.E.I. thought about that. JW's can be so strange and I am sure they were trying to witness to the sales person. Anyhow I still thought it was just a local thing until my sister-in-law called who lives near Seattle called and her hall was doing the same thing. She was also all worked up over it all. It is like the elders are making the people run scarred. They all have places to go, phone numbers to call and contact people to let them know they are safe and alive. That was why my SIL was calling just to make sure our numbers were right as she was very concerned that they just might not be. I mean we have had the same numbers for years. In her hall they have a to go bag for home and one also for the car just in case they are caught in traffic when things fall apart I guess?
My husband who was an elder forever until he was deleted over the pedophiles and my not being submissive enough as his wife because I could not get my freaking mouth shut when the baby rapists were holding kids anyway getting off the subject sorry my husband has had the to go bags for a couple of years for us. The other elders blew him off at that time. My husband is totally convinced that Armageddon is coming any day. Then to make matters worse over the weekend I went to Wal-Mart I never go to Wal-Mart and what do they have but a whole section of dried food that will last for years all for this very reason, That did it for my husband, he looked at me and said "see even people who are in the world know that something is going to happen that is why all of this food is here. The world is even afraid that the end is coming." I was thinking like yeh and the world was afraid of Y2K also. In 1999 my husband was also convinced that the world was going to end then. We have a barrel of beens and a barrel of rice in the basement or we had I do not know what happened to them nor do I want to ask, we also had so much bottled water that it has taken me years to drink it up as we still have a couple of cases left from 1999. My husband is getting concerned over the water going away. My husband wanted to hang our to go bags right by the door so they would be prominent and we could grab them in a hurry and anyone who came over would see them I was like NO WAY. I do not know where they are or what is in the bags he tried to get me to look at them and I was like whatever I do not care. I know he spent a lot of money on the junk he put in them. I know my bag weighs 35 pounds. Like I am supposed to run for my life with 35 pounds on my back and I am supposed to run to one of the JW's homes for safety. I would rather just lay down and die before I would stay in any freaking JW's home.
Anyway I am so glad that is not truly going to happen the way they think it will. I know things could happen like in Japan and other places I am not stupid but what the JW's are doing is just crazy. Has anyone else heard of this to go bag thing.
LITS