Money Money Money!!!

            So first off, I just want to say how much I love missionaries. I am so grateful for those young men and women that put off two years of their lives to serve the Lord. So many of my friends are all leaving or out already. Of course my boyfriend, Ian, who I have mentioned before, and my friend Tyler Barnes and Mitchell Rust are out. My friends Jacob Potts, Kyle Gardiner, and Blake Douglas are leaving this week. Mckay Allman and Hayden Petitta got their calls this week. Kirsten Shell, Jami Austin, and Lexi Wilcox are leaving soon. And one of my very best friends Will is getting his call next weekend. Tyler Ely, Connor Weeks, and Jared Varney are all working on their papers and about to put them in. I just wanted to give a shout out to all of them. I am so proud of them and the work they are doing. And I’m especially grateful for missionary work because I have personally seen the impact it can have on people’s lives. Ian was baptized two and half years ago and I was able to watch and be a part of that in his life. I am so grateful for the missionaries that helped him in that journey. Basically, I just love missionaries.

                Okay so now for this past week’s lesson. I know I already posted for this week, but that was before Friday’s lesson. Which was awesome. We read the pamphlet “One For The Money” and then talked about that in class. And if you haven’t read the pamphlet, you should. But until then, I’ll just write my notes from it. So it talks about ways to manage your money and what we need to do with our money in order to receive the blessings the Lord has for us. So these are the main points that were in there.

·         Pay an honest tithe

·         Learn to manage money before it manages you

·         Learn self-discipline and self-restraint in money matters

·         Use a budget

·         Teach family members early the importance of working and earning

·         Teach children to make money decisions in keeping with their capacities to comprehend

·         Teach each family member to contribute to the total family welfare

·         Make education a continuing process

·         Work toward home ownership

·         Appropriately involve yourself in an insurance program

·         Understand the influence of external forces on family finances and investments

·         Appropriately involve yourself in a food storage and emergency preparedness program

And I just think this is a brilliant list and it basically says it all. But I will do one comment. I think one of the most important thing is to teach family members early the importance of working and earning. My parents were great about this, they taught us early that we had to earn our things. Whenever we wanted something, even if it was something as simple as a candy bar, we had to work for it. We could do an extra chore or something and then we could get it. I am very grateful for them teaching me this because it has prepared me for living on my own. I have had a job most of my life and made my own money in order to be able to pay my own way through college. I know the importance of working and earning what I want. It also makes me value things more because I know what it took to get it.

And these are all the missionaries!! Love em! :)

Okay well that’s about it! Have a great week!! :)