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New Zealand Local Pages Pages Local Zealand New NEW ZEALAND LOCAL PAGES NEW ZEALAND LOCAL PAGES AREA LEADERSHIP MESSAGE Complete the My Path to Self- Reliance Initiative By Elder Meliula Fata Elder Meliula Fata owards the end of 2016 during our I read and pondered on the bless- income you need, and how to deter- Tmonthly management meeting at ings and the promise from the Lord mine the training or education for your the Samoa Service Centre, our service that He will provide and open the preferred options to meet your finan- centre manager, Denny Afualo, chal- door of self-reliance, which is the cial goals. The principles in the booklet lenged us to complete the My Path ability, commitment, and effort for us will help you learn how to control your to Self- Reliance. I had a very strong to provide the spiritual and temporal spending, how to budget your income, feeling that I should be one of the necessities of life for ourselves and and how to live within your means. first to do this. our family members.1 At the end of this booklet exercise, The very next day I picked up the The First Presidency has invited us you will want to do your self-reliance My Path to Self- Reliance booklet from to carefully study this booklet, apply assessment again and see how much the self-reliance manager and started the principles therein, and teach them you and your family have improved looking through it. I found the mes- to our family members. As we do so, towards becoming more self-reliant. sage from the First Presidency on the our lives will be blessed. We will learn President Thomas S. Monson IMAGES COURTESY OF ELDER MELIULA FATA first page. how to act on our path towards greater has counselled, “[Self-reliance] is an self-reliance. We will be blessed with essential element in our spiritual as greater hope, peace, and progress. well as our temporal well-being”.2 The I urge everyone to complete the My Lord has declared, “It is my purpose Path to Self- Reliance booklet by your- to provide for my saints.”3 This reve- self or as a group. Apply the principles lation is a promise that the Lord will that are taught there and you will expe- provide temporal blessings and open rience the blessings that were promised the door of self-reliance. He has also by the First Presidency of the Church declared that “it must needs be done to us and our families. By doing the in [his ways].”4 To receive the bless- exercises in the booklet, you will learn ings of self-reliance, we must accept why we should be self-reliant and and live the principles of self-reliance. how the Savior can help us become It is not enough to have only a self-reliant. Ask yourself, how self- desire to become self-reliant. We reliant are you and your family today? must make a conscious, active effort By completing the My Path to to provide for our own needs and Self- Reliance booklet, you will also those of our families. Bishop H. David Elder Fata is on a journey to be more self-reliant. He and his wife grow learn how to determine your financial Burton, former Presiding Bishop of their own fruit and vegetables. requirements for you to be self-reliant, the Church, reminds us that when what kind of work could give you the we have “done all we can to be June 2017 N1 LOCAL PAGES Apostle Visits New Zealand By Mormon Newsroom t was a memorable time for the I New Zealand youth who had their questions answered by Elder Dale G. Renlund of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles when he visited New Zealand earlier this year. Elder Renlund; his wife, Sister Ruth Sister Fata holding the papaya from her and Elder Fata’s garden. Renlund; and other Church leaders travelled from Salt Lake City to meet with Church leaders, members and self-reliant . we can turn to the to him that had not should be given”.7 missionaries in New Zealand, Australia Lord in confidence to ask for what My wife and I have a little garden and Tonga. we might yet lack.”5 Being self-reliant on a two-and-a-half-acre plot of land Youth had the opportunity to ask allows us to help and bless others. where we grow banana, taro, ta’amu, Elder Renlund questions at a special Elder Robert D. Hales of the yam, tapioca, sugarcane, avocado, devotional held in Hamilton. Quorum of the Twelve Apostles said, breadfruit, tomatoes, pawpaw, cab- Elder Renlund was accompanied “Only when we are self-reliant can we bages, sweet potatoes, green peppers, by his wife and by Elder Craig A. truly emulate the Savior in serving and eggplants, ginger plants, and so forth. Cardon of the Pacific Area Presidency blessing others.”6 Because we have more than enough and his wife, Sister Deborah Cardon. Alma teaches the members, espe- to provide for ourselves, we either The meeting was conducted by Elder cially the ordained priests, to labor sell some of the produce or we give David J. Thomson, Area Seventy. with their own hands and support most away to others. We feel blessed Before the meeting, youth were themselves and not to depend upon because we listen to the counsel of the invited to submit questions for the others. He “commanded them that the leaders in trying to be self-reliant. ◼ Church leaders. The result was a list priests whom he had ordained should of 129 unique questions. labor with their own hands for their NOTES During the course of the meeting, 1. Handbook 2: Administering the Church support.” He also “commanded that the (2010), 6.1.1. the Church leaders offered insight and 2. Thomas S. Monson, “Guiding Principles people of the church should impart of of Personal and Family Welfare,” Ensign, counsel to the gathered youth on a their substance, every one according Sept. 1986, 3. range of topics from how to respond 3. Doctrine and Covenants 104:15. to that which he had; if he have more 4. Doctrine and Covenants 104:16. to a call from the Lord to how sin 5. H. David Burton, “The Blessing of Work,” abundantly he should impart more Ensign, Dec. 2009, 43. affects spirituality. abundantly; and of him that had but 6. Robert D. Hales, in The Eternal Family In response to a question asking if Teacher Manual (2015), 96. little, but little should be required; and 7. Mosiah 18:24, 27. one should still pray even when one N2 Ensign NEW ZEALAND LOCAL PAGES Elder Dale G. Renlund greets youth at the special question- and-answer devotional held in Hamilton. Elder Renlund with Church leaders at Temple View, Hamilton doesn’t feel worthy, Elder Renlund He cares who you are and who you Look inside, not in the mirror, for feel- told the youth that “Jesus Christ loves are becoming.” ings of self-worth,” Sister Renlund said. us and invites us to change. We don’t In answer to a question asking how Elder Renlund also travelled earn forgiveness; we qualify for it.” to comfortably share the gospel with to Hamilton so he could tour the IMAGES COURTESY OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS LIBRARY AND USED WITH PERMISSION LIBRARY IMAGES COURTESY OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS Quoting Nelson Mandela, he said, “A others, Sister Renlund advised the Church’s extensive redevelopment saint is a sinner who keeps on trying.” youth that when they are asked what project in Temple View. Responding to the question “How they did last weekend, they should Elder Renlund was accompanied do I find the desire to turn away from “accurately report [their] activities.” by Sister Renlund; Elder Donald L. sin?” Elder Renlund counselled that When asked what they did over Hallstrom of the Presidency of the we can’t turn away from sin by think- the weekend, instead of respond- Seventy and his wife, Sister Diane ing about sin. We need to think about ing, “Oh, nothing,” they might say, “I Hallstrom; and Bishop Gérald Caussé, the Saviour to turn away from sin. He went to church and had a wonderful Presiding Bishop of the Church, and also suggested that if you don’t know experience.” his wife, Sister Valérie Caussé. the Saviour well enough, you won’t She also encouraged the youth Elder O. Vincent Haleck and Sister have a desire to turn away from sin. not to compare themselves to others Peggy Haleck; Elder S. Gifford Nielsen Elder Renlund told the youth, because that will lead to feelings of and Sister Wendy Nielsen; Elder “God does not care who you were; inadequacy. “Focus on your strengths. Craig A. Cardon and Sister Debbie June 2017 N3 heritage, stimulating economic devel- The youth listen intently to Elder Renlund. opment, and implementing ecological IMAGE COURTESY OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS LIBRARY AND USED WITH PERMISSION LIBRARY IMAGE COURTESY OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS improvements. They also toured the soon-to-be Cardon; and Brent Buckner, director The presentation to Church lead- completed museum—part of the for temporal affairs in the Pacific Area, ers, given by Paul Coward, leader of Mendenhall Building repurposing— accompanied the visiting leaders. the Temple View Project, included a that will document the journeys of Elder Renlund and the other leaders report on how desired outcomes, out- members of The Church of Jesus were briefed on the history of Temple lined when the development was first Christ of Latter-day Saints throughout View and the Church College of New conceived, are coming to fruition.
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