We used to have to walk to church since we did not have enough money to pay for public transportation. As he began to pay tithing, his life began to change. He found work as a cleaner in the local Coca-Cola manufacturing plant. He promised Heavenly Father that he would pay an honest tithe all his life. So he prayed and told God that he had a testimony of the law of tithing but needed to find employment so he could live it. Back then, as today, there was much poverty in the Philippines. When my parents converted to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, my father had no stable income. Photographs from Getty Images and courtesy of Elder Revillo