Elder Robert D. Hales said:
"As we live providently and increase our gifts and talents,
we become more self-reliant.
Self-reliance is taking responsibility for our
own spiritual and temporal welfare and
for those whom Heavenly Father
has entrusted to our care.
Only when we are self-reliant can we truly emulate
the Savior in serving and blessing others.
"It is important to understand that self-reliance is
a means to an end. Our ultimate goal is to become
like the Savior, and that goal is enhanced by
our unselfish service to others.
Our ability to serve is increased or diminished
by the level of our self-reliance."
SELF-RELIANCE is defined as taking responsibility for our own spiritual and temporal welfare and for those whom Heavenly Father has entrusted to our care.
Sister Julie B. Beck,
former General Relief Society President said:
"Self-reliance means using all of our blessings
from Heavenly Father to care for ourselves and
our families and to find solutions for our own
problems. We become self-reliant through
obtaining sufficient knowledge, education,
and literacy; by managing money and
resources wisely, being spiritually strong,
prepared for emergencies and eventualities
and by having physical health
and social and emotional well-being."
