“Managing the Profitability of My Business: My Foundation: Work: Take Responsibility and Persevere,” Starting and Growing My Business for Self-Reliance (2017)
Why does Heavenly Father want me to take personal responsibility for my life?
“Sedrick’s Journey,” available at srs.lds.org/videos. (No video? Read the script at the end of this section.)
How do we learn to keep going, even when the work is difficult?
Doctrine and Covenants 42:42 and the quote by President James E. Faust.
Read the quote by Elder D. Todd Christofferson. Why does the Lord expect us to work for what we receive?
Step 1: Choose a partner and read together each step in the pattern below.
Step 2: Share a hard task or challenge that each of you currently faces.
Step 3: Help each other apply the four steps below to the difficult task or challenge.
1.
Keep a Positive Attitude
2.
Remember to Work Together
3.
Replace Fear with Faith
4.
Move Forward with Patience and Courage
List your blessings.
Ask friends, peers, group members, and others for help.
Avoid doubt. Remember that the Lord has all power. Call upon Him and accept His will.
Never, never, never give up; endure with faith. Look for lessons the Lord might be teaching you.
Step 4: Write two or three ways you can move forward with faith, trusting that God will provide.
Create a Note
Read the quote by President Thomas S. Monson. How do I react when I experience failure?
Commit to do the following actions during the week.
If you are unable to watch the video, choose a group member to read the following script.
Sedrick: My name is Sedrick Kambesabwe. I live in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I’m a member of the LDS Church.
I’m a branch missionary in the village of Kipusanga. I need to prepare to go on a foreign mission. In order to go on a mission, I need a passport, which now costs 250 U.S. dollars.
To earn money, my father and I buy bananas. Some villages produce a lot of bananas: Tishabobo, Lusuku, and Kamanda.
Tishabobo is about 9 miles from here. Lusuku is 18 miles. Kamanda is 18 as well. We go there and buy bananas, and we bring them back here to sell.
To go to the villages we use a bicycle. We can take four or six bunches of bananas.
When I go by bike, it can take an hour and a half each way, if the bike is working and I have the strength. When it is midday and the heat is oppressive, I move slowly because of the heat and the sun.
I can do two trips per day if I wake up very early in the morning. It is a good way to help pay for my passport.
Now I’m earning money, little by little, so I’m saving for both school expenses and the mission. And now, after four years of work, I have enough money for my passport, plus 70 dollars earned.