Oct
12
Yesterday morning I was sleeping in when my dad called asking about packing some wheat and rice he has into buckets for long-term storage. He also mentioned he was going to head over to the local LDS Home Storage Center and pick up another 100 pounds (4 25 pound bags) of white wheat. We can fit 100 pounds into 3 5-gallon buckets so it makes it nice to get the wheat in 100 pound increments. I asked if I could tag along.
When we got there it was pretty busy. While filling out our order forms, I asked if we needed to put a mask and apron on in order to go pull some of the pre-packed stuff they had in #10 cans. A younger missionary replied “Yes” (which I was expecting). Then another missionary who has been there for quite a while said that you can’t buy the #10 cans of stuff unless you’re “working” in there. I just replied “Oh, alright.” For a split second I wanted to retort that I’ve come plenty of times and they’ve let me buy a few cans of things when I’ve just been there for bulk items, but I really didn’t have a problem with that rule so figured it didn’t really matter.
I had also thought of mentioning how I’ve served there (at that location and others) countless times in the past few years and sometimes bought stuff and sometimes didn’t. Adding that I guess I shouldn’t volunteer my time unless I know I want to buy something because that’s the only time I can buy something. But I quickly realized how prideful and unproductive that would’ve been. Besides, I think dry packing is actually extremely fun.
So now I’m trying to coordinate with some of my family on when they’d like to go do some dry pack this month so I can get some of the things I need/want. We like to pack stuff in groups of 6 since that’s how many cans are in a box. That way we have entire boxes of stuff, not a mix and match scenario. We still have a few that we need to “true up” and also a few that we’ve used 1-2 cans on that need to be replenished, so it’ll be a fun time at the cannery!
PS – They had run out of both white wheat and black beans (I wanted to pick up the beans). So we’ve got to make another trip there anyway!