There was a handful of events that made me start questioning the people who rely on the Bishops Storehouse. I want to be clear that I'm not bashing the integrity of the Bishops Storehouse. I'm questioning the integrity of certain people who use or have used the Bishops Storehouse when poor planning led them there and during the time they are on it to help them on their feet they are keeping all of their toys vehicles expensive house still going hunting or doing activities that could go towards basic living essentials. There is a radio show that have text topics where they ask a question and you can text your answers. There was a question on who told your clergy on you. One of the answers from a lady was that her kids told the Bishops kids that they used their tax refund to go to Disneyland when they were on church assistance. Wow a clear example of how they ended up on church assistance in the first place. Instead of helping their situation they blew their funds. Makes you wonder if they weren't receiving assistance if they would of made a different decision. Another example of why I am stuck on this subject is I service several payday loan places. When I was getting a signature for my work I clearly saw a check from the church. The church doesn't do business with pay day lenders so who's loan were they paying?
I have not to this date asked the church for assistance. I am not working due to an injury and I can't justify it especially now. I have more than enough reasons. I could simply go to my bishop with my finances I have less than 800 for my mortgage and 105 for my car. Today is not the day. I'm honestly doing good. In the past however there were alot of missed opportunities. Yeah I didn't lose my job during the great recession but it was during those times I needed help the most. Like the time I moved to utah and was putting my rent on a credit card. I could not even afford to do laundry. I sometimes did my laundry out of my bathtub because the laundromat was too expensive plus there washers were like half the size of a normal washer. My wife would do crafts to make us a little extra. The time my wife was pregnant with our second and I would sell plasma to pay for groceries diapers and formula. The church sent out a letter urging members to donate food to the food banks so my wife and I decided to donate half of the plasma money to buy protein items. I remember we even said a prayer and asked that our dollars would stretch that week. Assistance would of really helped during the two trips to the hospital for rsv. Once when my second child was just 4 weeks and when she was 2 I remember asking our landlord for an extension and paying a 50 dollar late fee. The worst time I ever needed help was when we finally moved to our house. Our house we bought was only 120K much less than the 249 or 270 that are being bought every day out here. We had to put all of our belongings in our parking lot stall because we ran out of time rent a budget truck, rent a storage unit, then were technically homeless. We lived in a hotel for 2 nights finally moved but due to some closing issues had to be very careful with our finances. I would drive twice a week a half hour north to sell my plasma so I could buy formula and diapers. With whatever left I would buy whatever groceries I could. We even raided my daughter's piggy bank so we could buy 20 dollars worth of groceries. I remember being excited because I could buy corn tortillas and black bean and corn salsa that week. At least I could make chips and have salsa to dip them in.
I think I will bring this subject to a close but before I do I have a few questions for those who justified getting assistance from the church. Do you have a car above 10,000? Can you sell it? Do you have a gas gussling truck or SUV you drive? Can you downsize get a car with better gas mileage that cost half to operate. Are you struggling to pay your 1500 paiddollar a month mortgage? Obviously if you're on church assistance you have to be. Even if you couldn't see the future you couldn't prepare for it either? What about guns, ATVs, RVs, boats, snowmobiles, trailers. Did you sell off your possessions before asking. Did you stop dance classes or sports to cut back on spending? Did you fly anywhere (not for busines) while you were on assistance? You couldn't use those funds to help your situation. At last if I could leave you with some advice on how to tackle life it would be this and I may be hypocritical of saying it. Build your life with 1 Paid for brick at a time and protect those brick and back them up. It's not worth it to finance some of those bricks. You risk losing them and having holes in your security. Except for a modest house that you can afford and a college education do not finance anything else on your personal (not business) credit. Your not protecting your walls and are that much more vulnerable to showing up to ask for charity.
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