Day 3- 1 Nephi 8

What is happening?

1. VISION OF THE TREE OF LIFE!
2. Lehi partakes of the fruit and wants his family to do so too.
3. The Iron Rod leads to the tree
4. Sariah, Nephi, and Sam take the fruit, Lamen and Lemuel don't.

How does this apply to my life?

1. How would I feel if I was Lamen or Lemuel and my dad was saying these things to me?
2. Going through high school it was not always easy to be one of the only Mormons. Infact, there were people who would laugh at me. But, Romans 1:16. I am NOT ashamed of the gospel.
3. If I knew of these blessing of the fruit, wouldn't I do anything to be able to have one taste?

Favorite Verse? Why?
Vs. 13 "And as I cast my eyes round about, that perhaps I might discover my family also..."
I love that the first thing that Lehi wants after tasting the fruit is for his family to taste of it also. He immediately starts looking for them and when he finds them, he beckons them to come with them. I can't imagine how he would feel when Lamen and Lemuel didn't want to come. Did he feel like he was failing as a parent? Will I have to experience that- where my children don't want to partake of the goodness of the gospel?