Accelerate preparations, start immediately.

In April 2004 General Conference, Dallin H. Oaks taught that the “signs of the Second Coming are all around us and seem to be increasing in frequency and intensity.” and “the accelerating pattern of natural disasters in the last few decades is ominous.”

He said that we should “accelerate our own preparation and try to influence the preparation of those around us.”

He tells us, “If our lamps of preparation are drawn down, let us start immediately to replenish them.”

He admonishes, “We need to make both temporal and spiritual preparation for the events prophesied at the time of the Second Coming.”

Note that while both are important, he says that, “the preparation most likely to be neglected is the one less visible and more difficult—the spiritual. A 72-hour kit of temporal supplies may prove valuable for earthly challenges, but, as the foolish virgins learned to their sorrow, a 24-hour kit of spiritual preparation is of greater and more enduring value.”