Tithing

Hello Everyone!
Hope you all had a happy Halloween! They don't celebrate that here so that was kind of sad but those things happen! Not much has happened this week, we have done a lot of finding and have found a lot of new people but are having a hard time getting them to come to church. Our area is kind of like the New York City of Brasil and everyone is always in a hurry to get somewhere or travel but hopefully the church attendance will be better next week! We still have lots of people progressing towards baptism, slowly but....surely! I don't have any exciting stories for this week so I thought I would share something that I studied this week that I loved. I started studying about tithing. How anything that we have is because of God, not only our jobs but even the very trees used to make money and how when we pay tithing we are making our donation but really we are just giving back what's already His and He is allowing us to receive blessings because of it and be a small part of building the kingdom of God here on earth! That reminded me of one of my favorite scriptures...Mosiah 4:24, "And again, I say unto the poor, ye who have not and yet have sufficient, that ye remain from day to day; I mean all you who deny the beggar, because ye have not; I would that ye say in hour hearts that: I give not because I have not, but if I had I would give." That scripture made me think of a lot of people that I have met here in Brasil. Usually the people who share the most things and want to give what they have are the people that have the least but they have just enough to share that that's what they do, share. Then I was thinking how there is one thing that we all have plenty of to share! Our time. We need to share our time! We all have 24 hours in each day. Who are we going to share it with? Our phone? Netflix? Sleeping? Or are we going to share it with someone who needs a good listener, someone in our family, maybe even someone we don't know and most importantly how much time will we share with Heavenly Father? I hope you are all always sharing what you have, especially one of the most valuable things that we all have, our time! I love you all and hope you all have a great week and use your TIME wisely;)
Love, sister Peine