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Obi, Examine the life of Bruce R McConkie and demonstrate where he had the means to support himself and his family through his tenure as a GA and later apostle. He did not. Instead while still an author and previous to him becoming a GA, he received a stipend from the church, continuing until his de...

The Quorums of the Seventies, Mission Presidents, The 12, and The First Presidency are all paid. The local clergy is a lay clergy but the upper echelons all receive stipends, housing, transportation, credit cards, health care. Living expenses and what not.