Continuing To Bless Others

These are notes from a finance class offered at the church. Any misinformation is the fault of the note taker.

– Doing what matters most.
– Often people think about things that are short term rather than the long term.
– Long term focus: retirements plan, savings, good health, no debt, creating memories with family and friends.
– Insignificant things that can prevent us from progressing; impulse buys, thinking of the moment and not the long term objectives. Forgetting to read the scriptures because of homework.
– Do homework before Sunday so Sunday is devoted to God.
– Gospel ordinances can help us to progress: with tithings, we go to God first and we are not so devoted to money. Give to God first.
– Dc:84:20: lord will bless us as we attend to the sacred ordinances of the temple. Be blessed in all our affairs paraphrase
– Boy k Packer: establish the temple as a great part of our membership (paraphrase).
– Why is it important to be temple worthy and how it relates to self-reliance: our goal is to gain the kingdom of God.
– A temple recommend shows you have a disciplined life.
– Living the word of wisdom can help prevent complication as of drug addiction and family issues related to
– Temple attendance opens you more to revelation and God can prompt us to make the correct decisions.
– Teach your children to press forward in Christ.
– Become spiritually self-reliant so we can help others wo are weak.
– Laymen and Lamual had relied on Nephi to understand certain principals of the gospel.
– Need to learn to be content with what we possess. We don’t have to compare ourselves to the Jones.
– When we are temporally self-reliant we need to help others. Erving and giving to others
– Who are the poor:
– Teach them but also teach them to fish.
– Sometimes when you help others they call become too reliant to get continual help.
– The spirit can prompt you to help others in need.
– Fast offering and humanitarian fund as well as donate to Di all help.
– One needs to look in their homes for their possessions in their home and remove not needed simplifying your life.
– Press forward with faith.
Check your status:
– Am I free of dependence on family
– I regular review my budget
– I have a one-month emergency fund
– I’m debt free or regular lowering my debt
– I have a 3 to 6 no emergency fund.
– I have insurance for healthy, home, car etc.
– I’m regularly saving and investing for the future.
Future goals:
– Continue to have family counsels
– Continue to review principles on this book
– Someone take multiple jobs to get more money that can use a skill you have like pulling our carpet of doing floors.
– Steady pay makes constantly poor and live in that amount. If you have an extra job help us you put that extra money to debt or to purchase something.