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WELCOME TO WEEK MAY 23 / 2024

05!
HYMN: #29 A POOR
WAYFARING MAN OF GRIEF
FIRST PRAYER:
DEVOTI
ONAL
• What do you think the will
to prepare means for you
in BYU-Pathway? What
does it mean as applied to
your family life?

• What can doing hard things, and pushing on through doubt or discouragement,
teach you?

• What can you do to get your Heavenly Father’s help, not to take away your
challenges, but to walk you through them? Why does He care about your
LEAD-IN DISCUSSION

• D&C 84:106. “And if any man among you be strong in the Spirit,
let him take with him that is weak, that he may be edified in all
meekness, that he may become strong also”

• 1 Peter 4:10. “As every man hath received the gift, even so
minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the
manifold grace of God”
THE GOSPEL TEACHES US THAT
WHEN WE BECOME SPIRITUALLY
SELF-RELIANT, IT IS OUR DUTY TO
HELP OTHERS TO BECOME
SPIRITUALLY SELF-RELIANT.
• What do you think it means to be “spiritually self-reliant”?

• How do the scriptures we just read teach that principle?

• In what ways could you help someone close to you who may be
struggling in this area become more spiritually self-reliant?
WHEN WE BECOME TEMPORALLY SELF-
RELIANT (OR ABLE TO PAY FOR YOUR
NEEDS AND SUPPORT YOURSELF), IT IS
ALSO OUR DUTY TO HELP OTHERS
BECOME TEMPORALLY SELF-RELIANT.

• What are some ways we can do this?

• What steps can we take to lift those around us without judging or


offending them?
“There is an interdependence between those who have
and those who have not. The process of giving exalts the
poor and humbles the rich. In the process, both are
sanctified. The poor, released from the bondage and
limitations of poverty, are enabled as free men to rise to
their full potential, both temporally and spiritually. [Those
who have more], by imparting of their surplus, participate
in the eternal principle of giving. Once a person has been
made whole, or self- reliant, he reaches out to aid others,
and the cycle repeats itself” (“The Celestial Nature of Self-
• Reliance,”
How does this quote
Ensign, apply
Nov. to you?
1982, 93).
• How can you help the people in need in your own Marion
life? G.
• Romney
What personal examples do you have of serving the poor or
needy or even being served yourself?
FINANCIAL
GOAL-
SETTING
ACTIVITY
Pay tithes and offerings
Paying tithes and offerings, for example, may result in a temporary loss of
money, but it comes with a promise of many blessings. President Dallin H.
Oaks of the First Presidency has said, “The payment of tithing is a test of
priorities”
Heber J. Grant has taught, “[To] the men and the women who have been
absolutely honest with God [and] who have paid their tithing, God has given
the wisdom whereby they have been able to utilize the remaining nine-tenths,
and it has been of greater value to them, and they have accomplished more
with it than they would if they had not been honest with the Lord”
Eliminate Debt
Think about the following questions: How much debt do you have? What are
the interest rates? How much do you owe and how long will it take you to pay
it back? Knowing the answers to these basic questions is vitally important to
your success in understanding your current debt reality.
Protect Your family from Financial Hardship
In the Old Testament, we learn that Joseph warned Pharaoh of the seven years
of plenty that would happen before the seven years of famine. Pharaoh could
have ignored Joseph’s warning, but instead chose to take his advice by storing
up as much grain as possible. He and his people would then have a storage of
wheat during the years of famine. This simple step of slowly building up a
supply of wheat literally saved his entire kingdom.
 Create an Emergency Fund
Because you cannot predict when your own personal thorns and thistles might
appear, it is crucial that you begin today to prepare for them. An emergency
fund is one such way to do that.
Financial advisors generally urge people to put away the financial equivalent of
3–6 months worth of total living costs for emergency situations.
 Acquire Adequate Insurance
If you can, adding insurance can be another layer of protection for you and
your family. Research these three types of insurance.
• Health Insurance
• Life and Disability Insurance
• Property Insurance (Homeowners, Renters, and Automobile)
Save and Invest for the Future
Once debt gets eliminated by the “rollover method,” the next logical step is to
roll over those same payments that had been going toward paying off debt to
investing in your future. As you save and invest, follow these three basic
principles.

• Principle 1: Save Money


• Principle 2: Seek Education
• Principle 3: Set a Retirement Goal

Continue to Give and to Bless Others


After working hard to provide for yourself and your family, giving to and
blessing the lives of others is a continual example of your faith and priorities.
Blessings come to those who seek the Kingdom of God first (3 Nephi 13:33).
FINANCIAL GOAL-SETTING
ACTIVITY

• What is the meaning of each


section?

• What is the biggest thing you have


learned from the success map and
why?

Invitation:
Set at least one goal on their own
related to one area of the success
map.
MOCK CONVERSATIONS
During the first part of this lesson, you learned about your
responsibility to help those around you to become more spiritually and
temporally self-reliant.

For this next activity, divide up into four groups and read the
instructions:

As a group, discuss what advice you would give this person from this
week’s lesson. Be prepared to act out a mock conversation between
you and this friend when you come back together as a class. Select 2-3
students from the group to act out how the conversation might go and
what advice might be given.
ACT OUT SCENARIOS
Group 1: Paying Tithes and Offerings
Group 2: Protect Your Family from Hardship
Group 3: Eliminate Debt
Group 4: Save and Invest in the Future

• What was an important piece of advice that was given?


• Why was it important?

Commitment
As you think about what has been shared tonight, I want to issue a
challenge to each of you to write something that touched your
heart. What goal do you feel you need to set for yourself as a result
of what you learned tonight? Pick just one and work on it
throughout the remainder of the week.
THANKS FOR YOUR Final Prayer:
THOUGHTS!

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