Self-Reliance: Testimonials and Stories

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Self-reliance principles lead to better jobs for more than one member of this family.

A couple describes how following the principles of self-reliance impacted their entire family.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

A self-employment group member discusses how the program taught her to use debt appropriately and how being successful in her business has raised her self-esteem.

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.

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

After struggling all her life, Stephanie is feeling the help of her Heavenly Father as she improves her education.

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.

A woman shares how her self-reliance group helped her find purpose and faith during a job search and career transition.

Elder Dallin H. Oaks relates a parable that compares to our mortal journey towards inheriting the Celestial Kingdom

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