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We all need to put our affairs in order.

• “Thus saith the Lord, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.” (Isaiah 38:1)
• “Treasure these things up in your hearts, and let the solemnities of the eternity rest on your minds” (Doctrine & Covenants 43:34)

Providing for our families is a spiritual responsibility.

•  “A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.” (Proverbs 13:22)
• But if any provide not for his own, and specifically for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.” (1 Timothy 5:8)
• “And ye will not suffer your children that they go hungry, or naked” (Mosiah 4:14).

An etate plan carries out my wishes when I am gone.

• “For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.” (Hebrews 9:16-17)

Preparation is the key to facing the future with confidence.

• “…if ye are prepared ye shall not fear.” (Doctrine & Covenants 38:30)
• “Prepare ye, prepare ye for that which is to come" (Doctrine and Covenants 1:12).

“[W]e would do well to lay up treasures in heaven, where not taxes but doctrines give meaning to words like estate, inheritance, testament, and will.”
- President Jeffrey R. Holland, “Like A Watered Garden”, General Conference October 2001)

“A fool can earn money; but it takes a wise man to save and dispose of it to his own advantage.”
- Brigham Young, Discourses of Brigham Young, sel. John A. Widtsoe, Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1954, p. 292

“Preserve and utilize your assets through appropriate tax and estate planning.”
- Franklin D. Richards, “Personal and Family Financial Preparedness,” General Conference of the Church, April 1979

“Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.”
– Winston Churchill.

“Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.”
– Thomas Alva Edison