(so this is from lastweek! i will send a new one forthis week!)
Hello Everyone
I hope this email finds each and everyone of you well! I hope the week for
everyone was so great!
My week was great! But it always is in some way when you are sharing the
gospel of Jesus Christ!
This week i turned Nine Months on mission! I only have nine months left!
That’s a pregnancy!
So when a sister has nine months left she takes a photo with a pregnant
belly so that will explain the photo! So I am due or finished May 28 2015!
It is so close but so far away! I am so excited! And so sad it’s
unbelievable! And my companion turned nine months as well!! I love my
companion she is so great!
Well I don’t have much to share this week but I want to share with you
something that I learned from my personal study as I was reading the book
of Mormon. It is found in Jacob Five.
This week we had some good lessons and some disappointing ones but that is
normal in missionary work! And so as many of you know we have assigned
areas as a companionship. So we each have our own vineyards. I was reading
this chapter and thinking about my area. And how I will be disappointed
because I will not save every soul but I will do all I can and continue
until the time is finished.
So what is going on in this chapter of Jacob is quoting a man named Zenos.
And it is about Jesus Christ and his vineyard. He is comparing us like unto
an Olive tree. And it talks about the scattering and the gathering of
Israel. It explains how the gentiles (us) will be grafted as a natural
branch into the house of Israel. So I want to talk about a specific part. I
Want to start from verse 29, Now this is after the Lord of the Vineyard
(Christ) has pruned and digged the olive trees. So now he has gone away. It
is symbolic to us in the sense that he has came here and died for us and
performed a perfect atonement so that we can return to our father in
heaven. So he has gone away for awhile and he is now coming back
(millennium) .
So the savior is talking to his servant and he has said “Come let us go
down in the vineyard, that we may labor again in the vineyard. For behold
the end draweth near and the end soon cometh; wherefore, I must lay up
fruit against the season, unto myself.
He is coming again to visit his vineyard and to labor in it so that he may
come and save us again. Again the savior comes and sees that his vineyard
has been corrupted after laboring diligently before. Now lets jump to verse
41. “And it came to pass that the Lord of the vineyard wept, And said unto
the servant: What could I have done more for my vineyard.”
What could I have done more for my vineyard? He wept and ask that question.
The Savior has done so much for us. And continues to do wonders for us each
day. And we still disappoint him. He weeps for us. And asks what could he
have done more? After he has labor much for us. He has already performed a
perfect atonement for everyone whether we want it or not. It is done. But
again because the Savor loves us he will labor for us.
46 And now, behold, notwithstanding all the care which we have taken of my
vineyard, the trees thereof have become corrupted, that they bring forth no
good fruit; and these I had hoped to preserve, to have laid up fruit
thereof against the season, unto mine own self. But, behold, they have
become like unto the wild olive tree, and they are of no worth but to be
hewn down and cast into the fire; and it grieveth me that I should lose
them.
47 But what could I have done more in my vineyard? Have I slackened mine
hand, that I have not nourished it? Nay, I have nourished it, and I have
digged about it, and I have pruned it, and I have dunged it; and I have
stretched forth mine hand almost all the day long, and the end draweth
nigh. And it grieveth me that I should hew down all the trees of my
vineyard, and cast them into the fire that they should be burned. Who is it
that has corrupted my vineyard?
48 And it came to pass that the servant said unto his master: Is it not
the loftiness of thy vineyard—have not the branches thereof overcome the
roots which are good? And because the branches have overcome the roots
thereof, behold they grew faster than the strength of the roots, taking
strength unto themselves. Behold, I say, is not this the cause that the
trees of thy vineyard have become corrupted?
49 And it came to pass that the Lord of the vineyard said unto the
servant: Let us go to and hew down the trees of the vineyard and cast them
into the fire, that they shall not cumber the ground of my vineyard, for I
have done all. What could I have done more for my vineyard?
50 But, behold, the servant said unto the Lord of the vineyard: Spare it a
little longer.
51 And the Lord said: Yea, I will spare it a little longer, for it
grieveth me that I should lose the trees of my vineyard.
My favorite part of these verses is what the savor says “For it greiveth me
that I should lose the trees of my vineyard.” Now put your name in these
verses I will do mine. “For it grievethe me that I should lose sister
griffus. He says what could I have done more for my vineyard. Now try that
sentence too.
What could I have done more for Sister Griffus? He could do nothing more
for me. Or you. He has done it all. He has done everything that we needed
him to do. He has labored diligently that we might be saved. It tugs at my
heart to know that Our Savior loves us so much that after he has done all
that is needed he still is willing to help us. He weeps that we become
corrupted or disobedient. And he has to asks what more could he have done?
And again he will come to save his vineyard because it grieveth him to lose
even on tree.
The lord loves us so much. And every day I pray that I will live in a way
that will not cause the son of man to weep for me. Or ask himself what
could he do more to help. I ever pray that he will be proud of me and each
and every one of you. He loves you so much. And I cannot wait for the day
that he will come. I will not fear because I will be comforted because I
know that I have lived the way he wants me to. I hope that all of you will
read this chapter and replace vineyard with your names so you can
understand thee importance of following the savior. And truly understand
his love for you.
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With Love,
Sister Tiandra Griffus
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