What's Tithing?

"Mom, Dad, What is tithing?," Lorelei says, as we are in the car coming home from church. We respond by saying, "tithing is where we give money back to Heavenly Father. If we have 10 pennies, we give one penny back to Heavenly Father and keep the other 9 pennies. He blesses us with everything we have, so we give back to him some money to help him build churches, temples and other things." As we continue home, she becomes reflective and deep in thought. She then declares, "I want to pay tithing to Heavenly Father," and then asked, "How do I give tithing to Heavenly Father?" We said that she could give it to the Bishop or one of his counselors, like daddy. We told her how proud we are of her, but thought it would end there. However, when we got home, she collected all of the coins she could find in her room and brought it into the kitchen to show daddy. She wanted daddy to bring it to the bishop, so he gave her an envelope to put the money in. Later in the evening when daddy was leaving for the YW program, Lorelei ran to find her envelope and insisted that daddy take it to the bishop. So he did. I guess we will be bringing her to tithing settlement next Sunday, so she can declare that she is a full tithe payer!