Riches!!

                We all have the tools to become better each day and to achieve our goals. Sometimes we make mistakes down the road but thanks to the atonement we are able to start over each day.  This week I learned from the entrepreneur Catherine Rohr that everyone deserves a second chance. She helps people that is in prison and gives them the opportunity to change their lives by becoming entrepreneurs as she is. We can all become self-reliant and become prosperous but it is a process. It is not bad to seek for riches but first we have to seek the kingdom of God.  If we don’t follow these order and we seek first for riches and then for God probably we will become rich on earth but we will lose our reward in heaven. I heard a speech at church and the speaker said: “Poor the poor that is poor here on earth and is not working to have a mansion in heaven, the poor will be poor forever.”  We all can become prosperous but we need to remember the poor and the needy. I learned a lot by listening to the talk given by elder L. Tom Perry in General Conference in April 1987 the talk is titled “United in Building the Kingdom of God”.  I strongly recommend everyone to listen to it.

                During the past weeks I have been selling banana bread at $00.65 per portion. It has been a challenge. But I have achieved the goal of $100.00. I couldn’t sell the bread more expensive because I live in Guatemala so the actual price was Q, 5.00 which is a little high for banana bread. My family and friends were really supportive also my neighbors. They bought the bread week by week.  I am still selling the bread but only to people that ask for it. This has been a great learning experience. Now I now more all the things I have to do to start a small business.