The Temple or the Truck: What Choice to Be Made?

Marie Michelle and Assoné Blanc are known in their area as a family who have shown great faith in their Savior Jesus Christ. At the beginning of the 2000s, they felt a strong inspiration to seal their marriage in the Santo Domingo Dominican Republic Temple, which had recently been dedicated. However, the travel from Port-au-Prince to Santo Domingo cost more than 300 American dollars. It was impossible for them to find such an amount of money at that moment. What was to be done?

As the days went by, it became more and more difficult for the family to save enough money to undertake the travel to Santo Domingo. Even with their many prayers and fasting, they still struggled to find the way towards the temple. The Blancs had as their sole source of income a small truck with which they operated passenger transport as a public service in the Metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince. Then they hit on an idea: to sell the truck to get money for the travel. Some friends and relatives who heard about this idea said that it would be a very unwise decision. Indeed, selling the truck meant for them that the Blancs would agree to cut the very branch they are sitting on. Selling the truck meant compromising their ability to provide food, healthcare, education for themselves and for their children.

Finally, Assoné and Marie Michelle Blanc sold the small truck and went to the temple to be sealed. What was the rationale behind a so perilous decision? Marie Michelle explained that exaltation is far more important than food and education. She said that they could not miss the opportunity to show the Lord that they trusted Him and that He could rely on them.