BYU Alumni Hosts Special Fireside
By Tracey Long
It’s been said that a recession is when your neighbor
loses his job, and a depression is when you lose yours. Financial challenges have touched everyone’s lives in this country, and now globally as international markets have experienced the domino effect of American real estate and bank dominos falling.

The American Bar Association has indicated that 89% of all divorces can be traced to quarrels over money. These marital tragedies are not caused simply by lack of money, but rather by the mismanagement of personal finances. In 1989, Elder Marvin J. Ashton counseled “Money management should take precedence over money productivity.”

Prophetic financial wisdom for our day can be found in 5 principles of economic constancy by N. Eldon Tanner in the pamphlet “Constancy Amid Change,” as timely for our era as in 1979 when it was written. 1) Pay an honest tithing 2) Live on less than you earn 3) Learn to distinguish between needs and wants 4) develop and live within a budget and 5) be honest in all your financial dealings.

To learn more about strengthening your own financial health, come join us for a BYU sponsored date night fireside April 23rd at the Spring Mountain Stake Center on 6601 W. Twain Ave., Las Vegas, at 7 p.m. The guest speaker is Paul Conrad from the BYU Finance Dept. For more information about upcoming BYUAA events and scholarships open to our Las Vegas community go to www.byualumnilv.org.