Sear’s catalogue

Years ago I was with a friend who has seen the trials that are coming.

We were discussing the preparations that would be needed for the coming plagues and got to talking about bartering.

I told him that I had read that some of the best bartering items were coffee, cigarettes, alcohol, and such. Those items that people were addicted to.

His only comment was if he had the funds he would purchase a huge warehouse and fill it full of toilet paper. He felt it would become the ultimate bartering item.

I knew he was right, since I am addicted to toilet paper. My mother was a teenager during the great depression and told me what Sear’s catalogues were good for. I wasn’t impressed.

After seeing the pictures and videos of places like Costco, I’d have to agree with him. They have become “toilet paper free zones” the past week.

This may be totally random but I asked the internet why we use our right hands to shake hands with another person and this came up:

“The reason why we shake with our right hands isn’t only because most of us are right–hand dominant. It’s partly because shaking with our right was the signal to foes that we weren’t armed. In some cultures, people wipe their tushes with their left hand – shaking with the right, in that case, is simply more hygienic.”

Now I know why I am not shaking hands anymore and am going to go out and find some more toilet paper. I wonder what cultures those are?

I wonder if my friend ever got his warehouse, I’d like to barter some coffee, tea, cigarettes and alcohol for toilet paper……

On to serious things. Not that toilet paper isn’t serious since there isn’t a Sears’s catalogue anymore and the ads that Deseret Book sends out aren’t very thick.

My sighted daughter called today and shared part of her chat last night with the Savior. Wow, how many of us are having chats with Him every night? And if not, why not? After all we have as much right as she does and He is waiting for us to open that door. I have a feeling that He would like to chat with us.

He told her that in order to survive what is coming, and what is here now isn’t the “bad” stuff, we will need to be like Nephi in the Book of Mormon. He did all that the Lord Jesus Christ asked of him.

If we are not like Nephi and don’t do all that He, the Savior, asks of us, we will not survive the hard stuff. And once again, this virus that is here now isn’t the hard stuff.

Sounds pretty simple, doesn’t it? Then why is it so hard some days?

Is it something about being children, hen’s wings and being gathered by Him for protection (D&C 43:24; Matt. 23:37; Luke 13:34), but we’d rather be over in the other part of the vineyard looking for that huge delicious worm that we just know is there? You know, our ship is coming in next week and we need to be there to off-load all of our gold.

Are we so conditioned or mind controlled, that we know our leaders will tell us when we should do something and how to do it? You know, that arm of flesh trusting thing so many are into with their Government and Church.

After all, He did say, “Come follow me.” (Luke 18:22) He also said to not follow flesh and that there are curses attached to doing so.

Now I wonder if that old bookstore in Provo carries old Sear’s catalogues. I could barter those.