The Responsibility for Welfare Rests with Me and My Family
James E. Faust April 1986 Saturday Afternoon Session
I wish to speak of the basic principles that keep our feet on the ground economically. This is important to our happiness. Let us examine ourselves and, like pilots in the sky, take our bearings to see if we are on course financially. We must build upon sound principles. The bedrock principle of which I speak is that the responsibility for welfare rests with me and my family. In 1936 the First Presidency said in a great statement of purpose, “The aim of the Church is to help the people to help themselves.” (In Conference Report, Oct. 1936, p. 3.)