Welcome to part two of Dr. Barbara Morgan Gardner, the book of Malachi.

And John and Hank, there's a great talk by Elder Holland where he talks about the reasons

that we pay our tithing.

I think it's called like a water garden.

I love this talk, but it gives different reasons for paying tithing, for jumping to this.

He just says the first reason to pay tithing is to do so for the sake of your children

and grandchildren, the rising generation, so they can grow up in the church.

We can build temples, etc.

He says the second reason to pay your tithing is to rightfully claim the blessings promised

those who do so.

And then he quotes the scripture, prove be here with.

I just want to share, I recognize a lot of the blessings of tithing are not monetary.

And frankly, it's the monetary blessings that we talk about, but I do want to share

a couple of them.

And I think if we were to send this out to every single person listening to this podcast,

everyone could share how they have tested the Lord or proved the Lord in a sense and

he has proven himself to us.

I'll just share one first, I have 2012 siblings, and I remember my eighth sister, so the eighth

child down was the first one to get married.

And she called my dad and said that she was going to get married.

Frankly, she was young and my dad said that she wasn't mature enough, but that's a story

for another day.

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