Elder Quentin L. Cook shares how two women felt God’s love and the healing power of Christ’s Atonement following a tragic auto accident in which their family members were killed.

Christ’s Atoning Love Heals Grieving Hearts

Hector gets the support and knowledge he needs to improve and develop his business by trusting in the Lord and attending a self-reliance group.

Hector: Improving More Than Just My Business

A couple shares how the Starting and Growing My Business self-reliance group led to greater faith and a stronger business.

Merrills: Growing My Business

A Personal Finances participant shares how her group experience taught her the spiritual and temporal are related, and how faith mattered in her finances.

Deborah: Faith and Finances

A couple shares how the Personal Finances self-reliance group helped them gain financial skills and a witness that the temporal and the spiritual are one.

Curtis and Pshaunda: Making Finances Personal

A self-employment group member discusses his successful business and how the course has helped him improve his business.

Antar: Exercise and Fitness

We can all improve our self-reliance, even if we don't realize it at first.

Ronwen: Simple Principles

A self-employment group member discusses how the program taught him marketing and better customer relations. He also discusses the role of prayer and faith in his business.

Daniel and Christiana: General Store

A job search group member discusses his successful six-day job search following a period of seven months of unemployment.

Rafael: Job in Six Days!

A bishop discusses the economic challenges his members face and how the self-reliance program has helped them.

Bishop Diaz

A self-employment group member discusses how the program taught him not only better business practices but how to involve his family and improve his personal life.

Felix: Refrigeration Parts

A returned missionary shares how the Education for Better Work self-reliance group helped him find direction for life after his mission.

Jackson: Learning for a Lifetime

A self-employment group member discusses how the program taught her to better utilize her business assets (a sewing machine).

Irene: Mobile Sewing Service

A self-employment group member discusses the importance of keeping separate business and personal financial records. He also talks about how closely related temporal and spiritual principles are.

Samuel: Computer Repair

Self-reliance principles sustain a couple through an unexpected employment loss.

Morales: Meeting Our Potential

A self-employment group member discusses the importance of record keeping and separating personal and business expenditures.

Vangelis: Street Magician

A couple describes how a self-reliance group helped them begin preparing for the future.

Castanedas: Financial Planning for Our Future

A self-employment group member discusses the investment and sacrifice it took to start his business and how it allowed him to no longer have to work on the Sabbath.

Susy: Private School Bus

A self-employment group member discusses how the self-reliance group helped him to decide to expand his fast food business.

Joseph: Fast Food

As a boy, Elder Enrique R. Falabella learned there is a solution to every problem. By living self-reliance principles and not being complacent, all of us can become better.

He Polished My Toe

A self-employment group member discusses how the program taught her to expand her product offering to better meet the needs of the customer.

Dorothy: Groundnut Paste

Two self-employment group members discuss how they became business partners through the self-reliance group and how they combined one partner’s idea with the other partner’s resources.

Joseph and John: Medical Products

A self-employment group member discusses the importance of marketing and how the course has helped him focus on his customers’ needs.

Stanley: Masonry and Construction

Elder Joseph W. Sitati discusses how he overcame hurdles to get a good education in Kenya. Pursuing an education allowed him to find his wife, a secure job and the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Education for a Better Life

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Self-Reliance: Testimonials and Stories