Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Finances

We encourage you wherever you may live in the world to prepare for adversity by looking to the condition of your finances. We urge you to be modest in your expenditures; discipline yourselves in your purchases to avoid debt. . . . If you have paid your debts and have a financial reserve, even though it be small, you and your family will feel more secure and enjoy greater peace in your hearts."
—The First Presidency, All Is Safely Gathered In: Family Finances, Feb. 2007, 1 


Pay Tithes and Offerings

Avoid Debt

Use a Budget

Build a Reserve

Teach Family Members

“First, and above and beyond everything else, let us live righteously. …

“Let us avoid debt as we would avoid a plague; where we are now in debt, let us get out of debt; if not today, then tomorrow.  “Let us straitly and strictly live within our incomes, and save a little.  Pres. Benson

"You of small means put your money in foodstuffs and wearing apparel, not in stocks and bonds; you of large means will think you know how to care for yourselves, but I may venture to suggest that you do not speculate. Let every head of every household aim to own his own home, free from mortgage. Let every man who has a garden spot, garden it; every man who owns a farm, farm it.” (President J. Reuben Clark, Jr., in Conference Report, Apr. 1937, p. 26.)  Read it also here;  Pres. Benson

Financial Preparedness

Becoming Provident Providers, Elder Hales, 2009

One for the Money,  Elder Marvin J. Ashton, 2007