June Visiting Teaching Message: Strengthening Families through Temporal Self-Reliance

This month's visiting teaching message is about self-reliance. I have been thinking about this a lot lately while reviewing my food storage and planting a garden. I love how this months lesson gives a large list of talents we can develop to become self-reliant. There is also a great story from Julie B. Beck about the great example her Mother-in-law was in the area of self-reliance.

June Visiting Teaching Message Handout

{I created the VT handout with Picnik}

We have been so lucky to have not been largely effected by the recession, but I have watched as close family and friends have struggled. It has me really motivated to be prepared for the unexpected.

For instance, we decided that instead of doing something fun with our tax return (which trust me I would have liked to do), we would put it toward paying advance months on our mortgage. That way, if something did happen we would not have to worry about that payment for a couple of months and our house would be safe.

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I have had a lot of people asking how to print the visiting teaching handouts. It is really easy to right click the image and copy. Then, you can paste it in to word and re-size and copy as necessary for how many you want on a page. You can also right click and save, then open with Windows Photo Gallery which allows you to print choosing your paper size. I choose 4x6 and do them on photo cards.

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Oh, and it's my birthday today.
So, HaPpy BirThdAy to ME
and Donald Duck and Johnny Depp!

I am the youngest. ;)

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