Happy Birthday to the Book of Mormon Another Testament of Jesus Christ

Posted on March 26, 2025 by treeoflifemama
Credits for Images Above and Below: Lynne Hilton Wilson YouTube Channel

Today the Book of Mormon Another Testament of Jesus Christ went on sale for the first time. The publisher, E.B. Grandin, started selling it at his bookstore for $1.75, in Palmyra, New York. So happy birthday to the Book of Mormon!

You can learn more about the print shop here and take a virtual tour.

Watch the video below done by my husband’s cousin Lynne Hilton Wilson to learn of the history of the publication of this book, which is sacred scripture to millions of people.

Below the video you will find some interesting screenshots from the video.

It’s published in 97 languages in the complete format, with excerpts in 20 languages.

The timeline below shows some interesting events that led up to is printing.

The publication of this book was a huge project! Joseph Smith placed an order for 5000 copies, when the usual order at the Grandin print shop was around 600 copies. It took 12 men working 11 hours a day, 6 days a week, for several months, from the fall of 1829, until March 26 1830, when it first went on sale.

What’s more important than the facts surrounding its publication is how it has borne witness of Jesus Christ and changed people’s lives. I have read it, love it, and prayed about it to God, asking to know if it’s true. The Holy Ghost has borne witness to me that it’s true.

Go here to read the story of an Italian man, a Protestant minister, who found a copy of the book with the cover missing, read it, and started preaching from it, even though he didn’t know the name of the book. He eventually got baptized by missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. If you go to that link at the start of this paragraph, you can also watch a mini movie about him that the Church made, at the end of that blog post.

Here’s the story of a man who read the book as a Jewish teenager when he was preparing to be a rabbi, got converted to Jesus Christ, got baptized, and served a mission for the Church. Now he is a chaplain for the U.S. military.

Over here we have a story of a man who asked, “Isn’t the Bible enough?”

Then this video below shows a woman, wife of an Air Force man, mother of 4, and native of the former Soviet Union. She was 18 when the USSR broke up. She tells her story of finding the Book of Mormon in Ukraine and becoming a believer of it, after she failed to prove it wrong. Amazing!

My Family Devotionals Ebook has more stories about the power of the Book of Mormon changing people’s lives, in the March section. Go here to get the ebook.

Want to play a Book of Mormon-themed Wits and Wagers game? Go here!

Go here to get your own copy of the Book of Mormon. Read it online here. It’s true!

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He Was About to Burn The Book of Mormon, Then He Heard a Voice Tell Him “Don’t Burn My Book”: A Jewish Man’s Conversion to Christianity

Posted on March 26, 2025 by treeoflifemama
Photo Credit: Latter-day Believers YouTube Channel

This man’s story is so fascinating! Here’s what the description of the video says:

“Jason was born to a Jewish mother and Lutheran father but practiced mainly Judaism growing up. He devoutly studied the Torah and attended Hebrew school but knew of Jesus Christ from celebrating Christian holidays at home. Jason’s friendship with Latter-day Saints led him to receive a copy of the Book of Mormon. In his story, he reveals the pivotal moment when he almost burned the Book of Mormon out of anger, only to feel God stop him.”

Listen to his story below!

I love that he was convicted by the statement on the title page of The Book of Mormon Another Testament of Jesus Christ. It is underlined in the image below, regarding what the Lord has done for his fathers of the house of Israel.

Image Credit: Latter-day Believers YouTube Channel

I’m excited to get his book, shown below. It has an average 5 star rating on amazon. Here is the summary:

“Jason Olson felt God’s presence in the Jewish tradition he was raised in. So what was he supposed to do when he also heard God’s voice in the Book of Mormon?

“The Burning Book traces Jason’s spiritual journey from aspiring rabbi to Latter-day Saint missionary, from Brigham Young University student to Israeli immigrant, and from Jewish Studies scholar to military chaplain. It’s a memoir about one man’s experience finding God: in two faiths, in two countries, and in the lives of other people.

“Co-written with novelist and poet James Goldberg (author of The Five Books of Jesus and A Book of Lamentations), The Burning Book offers readers a glimpse into Jewish and Mormon cultures and asks what it means to seek the voice of prophets in a modern, multicultural world.”

His story reminds me of Aunt Nancy’s story, which you can read about here. Her book even has a similar title, called, The Burning Bush.

Book Cover Image Credit: amazon.com

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Some Books for You Mama, To Prepare for Easter!

Posted on March 22, 2025 by treeoflifemama

I love this quote from Elder Gary Stevensons’ General Conference talk of April 2023 where he quotes N.T. Wright:

“We should be taking steps to celebrate Easter in creative new ways: in art, literature, children’s games, poetry, music, dance, festivals, bells, special concerts. … This is our greatest festival. Take Christmas away, and in biblical terms you lose two chapters at the front of Matthew and Luke, nothing else. Take Easter away, and you don’t have a New Testament; you don’t have a Christianity.”  (Elder Gary E. Stevenson, Liahona, May 2023)

Can you imagine the shift in our society when we have several generations of families and neighbors having joy together and getting renewed each year by an intensive celebration of Easter as our “greatest festival,” even greater than Christmas? Not just a superficial Easter bunny egg hunt, but a deep dive into the meaning of each day of the Holy Week leading up to Easter? I love this challenge/invitation! I invite you to join me in it!

Here are the books I recommend to feel all the wonderful Easter vibes so you can get ready for this special day and prep to make it a holy festival. Most of these books I read last year and absolutely love.

  1. First, the Gospel Art Book, from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, so you can get the prints shown in my timeline at the top of this page. When I was a young mom, these prints were sold in a file box, and so that’s what I have, with the prints loose and not bound in a book. I used them as shown above at to the top to hang on a garland with clothespins. Every morning during Holy Week for our family scripture reading we read the scriptures related to the event of the day during Christ’s last week and hang up the picture. But now they are only available in a book, at the Church’s online store. I suppose you could carefully cut the prints from the binding and still use them in a timeline like I show above. I also have a simple free printable timeline of the Holy Week created by a friend over here.

2. Second, a book to do a deep dive into making the rituals of Easter meaningful for your family, with music and scripture readings.

Here’s a summary of the book in the video below.

3. If you have a younger family, this book below is easier to digest and execute because it is much simpler, specifically designed for little children. My review of it is here.

I love the idea from the above book of doing Parables Sculpturades. We did it last year and I want to make it a tradition every year. We laughed so hard and connected, it was a total win! Not all family members were there, I can’t wait to do it with my daughter, son-in-law, and grandsons in the mix this year.

Providentially, I had just found a book about Christ’s parables at a thrift store right before I discovered this idea. So, we referred to that book during the activity. That’s a little pig in the lower right-hand corner, from one of the parables.

4. This book below strikes a balance between the two above: it has more information than the simpler one, but not as much nitty-gritty, perhaps overwhelming detail as the top one. My husband’s cousin Janet Hales wrote it with her husband, Joe Hales. It has activities to do every day during Holy Week like the two above. I also love, love, that it has a scripture treasure hunt to do on the day after Easter Sunday, to tell the rest of the story about what Jesus did while he was in heaven, after He died, before he was resurrected and came back to earth.

5. This book below is one man’s personal reflections on how Easter is so meaningful to him, connected to the death of his wife.

6. Here is a wonderful dive into the grace of Jesus Christ which comes from His atoning sacrifice in the Garden of Gethsemane. I totally loved reading this last year.

7. If you want a fun fictional read that takes place during Easter, read this one below. It’s a romance, a bit cheesy, but also has a lovely Christian Easter theme. It’s entertaining and clean.

8. Sally Clarkson’s book below has a chapter on family traditions, going month by month through the year. I give a recap on what she reveals her family has done for Easter through the years over here.

9.Then there are the two companion books authored by Emily Belle Freeman related to Easter. I haven’t read them yet, but I’m pretty sure they depict the Holy Week traditions that she has in the videos I’ve compiled over here. I love that these books are like bookends to her Christ-centered Christmas books. For each holiday, she has one for adults, and one for children. I also love that the traditions involve simple household objects, except for an Easter lily, and focus on discussion involving thought-provoking questions involving people involved in the Savior’s last week.

Credit for Images Above and Below: deseretbook.com

10. Want some Easter-themed stories, scriptures, poetry and songs to share with your family each day? Go here to get the April excerpt from my Family Devotionals ebook, and then get stories for all year round from the rest of the book here.

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Tree of Life Mama Chapter Book of the Week: What the Nurses Saw…(It Was Murder!)

Posted on March 21, 2025 by treeoflifemama

It was 5 years ago this past week, the middle of March 2020, that the world turned upside down. Suddenly offices, schools, businesses, churches, and other places of work, play and worship shut down. Why? Because we were told a deadly virus was spreading, and that to stop the spread, we should stay home as much as possible.

Were we told the truth?

I’m grateful for brave people coming forward to investigate what happened and share their discoveries of the truth. The above book is such a thing. In this book, you will hear from several nurses giving their eyewitness accounts of what happened in hospitals across the USA during COVID. The graphic below sums up the book, courtesy of illustrator Anne Gibbons, from the book’s website here.

Image Credit: whatthenursessaw.com

Below is an excerpt from the book.

In this podcast interview with Holistic Hilda, you can get a synopsis of the book from the author, Ken McCarthy. He’s a smart guy, as evidenced by him being a student of neuroscience at Yale. Please listen to what he has to say and read the book. Then make your own conclusions. His website is here.

Here is what goodreads.com says about the book:

“No human activity can ever be free from error, but to be clear, this book is not about the kind of error all human beings are prone to.

“As you will learn from the eye-witness accounts and technical information presented in this book, calling the failed COVID protocols “errors” is not accurate.

“What The Nurses Saw — It was Murder.

“These protocols were explicitly ordered by those who took dictatorial control of the medical system early in the Panic (spring of 2020). Further, when they were shown to be demonstrably failing and harming many thousands of people, experienced healthcare professionals who raised informed concerns were silenced through demotion, firing, and organized campaigns of harassment promoted by the news media and enabled by companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok, in some cases in collaboration with the White House and the Department of Justice’s FBI.

“If this sounds very bad, it’s because it is.

“What the Nurses Saw is documentation of what happens in the real world when bureaucrats, in this case bureaucrats in Washington DC, take literal dictatorial control over the practice of medicine.

“On a pure dollar and cents level, one of every five dollars spent in the U.S. is spent on the products of the medical services industry, as is one of every three tax dollars. The U.S., more than any country in the world, and by a large measure, has been colonized by this industry. As part of this process, the industry and its operatives have corrupted and perverted science, academia, and the news media. Now it’s hard at work to weaken and degrade the last pillar that keeps the system even remotely functioning — the integrity of the nursing profession.

“If we fail to support our good nurses, help them hold the line, and start aggressively turning things around, there is no practical limit to how far this totalitarian medical dictatorship which we in fact live under will go in its future abuse and exploitation of human beings.

“Featuring in-depth interviews

Erin Marie Olszewski,
Mark Bishofsky,
Sarah Choujounian,
Kevin Corbett Ph.D.,
AJ DePriest,
Ashley Grogg,
Kristen Nagle,
Kimberly Overton,
Nicole Sirotek
and Katie Spence”

Hmmm…more than ever, I am convinced that the “pandemic” was a plandemic.

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3/20/25 Tree of Life Mama’s Picture Book of the Week: Hello Neighbor, a Picture Book About Mr. Rogers

Posted on March 20, 2025 by treeoflifemama

Today is Mr. Rogers’ birthday! He was born on 20 March 1928. Let’s celebrate this kind-hearted soul who definitely left the world a better place with his unconditional love and peaceful TV show. I watched his show often while growing up. I loved everything about it except for the character of Lady Elaine Fairchild, who scared me with her bulbous nose, and obnoxious ways. I also hated the operas put on by the citizens of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Yawn, they were so boring. I guess I wasn’t a cultured enough child to appreciate it all. But I loved most of the visits from the neighbors and the movies he showed in his living room. I also loved most of his music. My mom had his songbook that she bought in the 1960s when the show first came out, before I was born. It often was perched on piano, inviting us to play the music.

Here’s a fun book you can read today in honor of Mr. Rogers. It tells the story of his life, how we grew up lonely, sometimes being bullied, and sought refuge in his music and his imagination. It tells how he came up with his TV show and what a pioneer he was in creating thoughtful TV programming for children. It’s a sweet book with charming illustrations and reminds us of the wonderful legacy he left.

You don’t even have to run to the public library to read it. Just watch the video below, with the book read aloud by the author, Matthew Cordell.

Want more of Mr. Rogers?

Here’s a review of the Mr. Rogers card game.

Here’s his music with a jazzy beat. It’s Mr. Rogers meets swing! I love it!

Here’s a book written by a man who cultivated a healing friendship with Mr. Rogers.

We finished this book after I read it aloud for over a month to my three youngest children, during their kitchen cleaning/dishes time. I did read ahead and skip some parts and paraphrase because it’s written for adults and not kids. Mr. Rogers played a healing role in the author’s life, to help him heal from depression, a verbally abusive father, and the death of his brother, who died from cancer. So amazing! “I’m proud of you,” has become a phrase in our family now, which usually elicits laughter. Like when I climbed into bed one night. My husband’s head had already hit the pillow. I told him I had finished the book with the kids that day and he surprised me by saying, “I’m proud of you!” It made me burst out laughing. Anyway, I learned a lot about Mr. Rogers from reading it. He was amazing! He was a Christian minister who lived out his religion most definitely.

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Carnivore Birthday Cake Recipe: Gluten-free, Zero Carb, and My Husband Loved It!

Posted on March 20, 2025 by treeoflifemama

This past weekend was my husband’s birthday. That means it’s an anniversary of the stuff that turned the world upside down, 5 years ago. I have a lot of memories about that weekend and the ensuing months/years, as I’m sure we all do. More on that later.

This year, for a treat dessert that fits the carnivore lifestyle that I want my husband to follow to help with some of his medical issues, I made a carnivore birthday cake. What makes a carnivore cake? Technically, you could just take a slab of a steak and call it a “carnivore cake.” But I wanted to make a cake that looks pretty like a sugar-laden birthday cake but is zero carb or low carb. This one does, especially when you have a gorgeous platter like the one in the photo above.

A strict carnivore cake means it just involves animal products, which is what a carnivore eats. This recipe fits the bill. It involves eggs, cream cheese, and whipping cream. If you want to tweak it a little to make it taste better and are OK with adding a teensy bit of a few plant products, add vanilla and a little stevia to the mix.

My husband loved it, in fact, he said it was really, really good! I loved it too because it tastes light, yet filling, and slightly sweet, since I added stevia to the cream (not in the original recipe). When I was done eating, I felt that I had just been nourished with a yummy treat instead of having a blood sugar rush and then crash. It’s basically a custard with whipped cream. It tastes super light, even though it’s made with mostly fat and some protein.

No, he didn’t turn 8 years old. I just stuck a random amount of candles into the cake. We had an alternate cake for the omnivores of the party, which was a big bucket of ice cream. I topped that one with the appropriate numeral-shaped candles.

I got the recipe from Kelly Hogan of myzerolowcarblife.com, over here. She calls it “Oopsie Cake.”

Mine, below, looks a bit pathetic compared to hers in the image above.

Read below for why mine doesn’t look as good.

For each layer of the cake, you need the following ingredients (so if making two layers, be sure you get two blocks of cream cheese and 16 eggs. I didn’t read the recipe carefully enough prior to shopping and got only one block, but I still really wanted two layers, so I divided the mixture meant for one pan into two round pans and the resulting layers shown above are rather short. I’m excited to make it again and make it right so it will be as tall as a regular round two-layer cake):

-8 eggs

-One 8 oz. block of cream cheese

-32 oz. whipping cream

-Optional: vanilla, dash of salt

Directions:

Separate the eggs. Whip up the egg whites until stiff peaks form. Kelly’s recipe calls for 1/4 tsp. cream of tartar to add to the egg whites. I didn’t use any (after a futile search to find some in my cupboards) and they still formed stiff peaks.

Mix the egg yolks with the cream cheese. Add 1 T vanilla if you’d like and a pinch of salt.

Gently fold the yolk/cream cheese into the egg white froth. Pour cake mixture into a well-greased or parchment paper-lined pan, either a 9×13 or a round layer pan. Lining with parchment is super helpful, as when it’s baked you can just lift the cake out of the pan with the edges of the paper, turn it upside down on the serving platter/cake stand, and easily peel the parchment off.

Bake at 300 degrees for 25 minutes, until the top is golden brown.

While it is baking, whip up the cream. Add stevia and or vanilla to taste if you are OK with not being a strict carnivore and willing to eat plants. Whip it up to desired stiffness, for me that’s soft peaks.

Let cool.

If you used the round pans, assemble the cake by frosting with whipping cream in between and around the layers and on top. Get real fancy if you want with a dessert decorator. If you used the 9×13 pan, frost the top of the cake with whipping cream. Serve and enjoy!

Below is how the two-layer cake is supposed to look, courtesy of Bella, the Steak and Butter Gal. Doesn’t it look divine? I can’t wait to make this again, which I think I’ll do for Easter, and make the top super fancy. Maybe even indulge with some sugar-free jelly beans or Lily’s chocolate chips, sweetened with stevia. Or maybe some sugar-free colorful sprinkles.

I also want to make it for Father’s Day and turn it into a strawberry shortcake, with a few locally grown, in-season strawberries sliced thinly and delicately placed on top. The possibilities are endless!

Photo Credit Above: Steak and Butter Gal’s YouTube Channel

Here’s Bella’s video below with her making it, as a birthday cake for her baby brother turning 16. Interestingly enough, Bella also adds a honey-sweetened drizzle topping.

Want more about carnivore? Go here.

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Jesus in Rock Art: You Are Enough, It’s All He Wants

Posted on March 19, 2025 by treeoflifemama
Credit for Images Above and Below (except for book cover): Patti Rokus YouTube Channel

This video from my amazing, gorgeous friend Patti Rokus is so beautiful! Patti creates beautiful images out of rocks depicting Jesus, as well as other characters from Bible stories.

As Patti says, “Have you ever felt unworthy, broken, or too far gone for Jesus to accept you? This stone art depiction of Jesus is a reminder that His love is unconditional. No matter how beaten down by life you feel, God’s love never wavers. He isn’t asking for perfection—He just wants your heart.”

You will feel peace as you watch the video below. This peace comes from Jesus Christ, the source of all peace, joy, love, life and light. He loves you!

If you want to feel more peace, you can feel it from Jesus as you ponder His word in the Bible and the Book of Mormon Another Testament of Jesus Christ. These two books go hand in hand together to testify of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. In fact, the Book of Mormon has a scripture that tells us that Jesus is the Rock, the only sure foundation, to build our lives upon.

“And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall.” Helaman 5:12

Want more of Patti’s beautiful rock stories? Go to her channel here and buy her books here. She has one called The Miracles of Jesus, one about other Bible stories, one for Christmas, and one for Easter. They are all so amazing!

Credit for Cover Image: amazon.com

Thank you Patti for sharing your gift of finding just the right rocks to show us how the rocks testify of Jesus Christ. I love it how she has found so many interestingly shaped rocks to put in just the right places to create these lovely scenes.

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New Interview With Dan Debenham of Relative Race, Talking About New Season 15

Posted on March 18, 2025 by treeoflifemama
Photo Credit: GenFriends Genealogy Chat Show YouTube Channel

In the video below, we see Dan Debenham, the host of the Relative Race TV show, at the recent 2025 RootsTech, answering questions about Relative Race. He speaks a bit about the history of the show and especially about the new season. Watch it and learn a few secrets, including what Dan prays for every day about the show. I hope his prayers come true! Thank you Cheri Hudson Passey for facilitating this interview and sharing it with all of us!

Season 15 of BYUTV’s Relative Race premiered last Sunday! Who watched it? I’d love to hear your comments in the comments box below if you did. If you haven’t seen it, you are missing out, so go here to watch. It was such a tearjerker! My husband even cried at a few parts. This is the first season involving a Hispanic team, as well a team involving an uncle and niece. In fact, it has two uncle/niece teams! So fun! It also has two mother/daughter teams. We’ve seen a mother/daughter team before, but this is the first time we’ve seen two mother/daughter teams in the same season, as far as I can remember, and two uncle/niece teams as well.

Image Credit: Relative Race Live Facebook Page

If you don’t know what Relative Race is, read on. It’s a reality TV show where people find relatives whom they have never met before. The tears and stories that flow after these introductions are just so heartwarming! These people were usually adopted at birth or at a very young age and don’t know who their birth parents are. People apply to be on the show. If they get accepted, they have to submit to a DNA test so their relatives can be matched up with them. The show involves four teams of two people each. The two people can be related or not. Usually they are, as husband and wife, siblings, parent and child, in-laws, and sometimes they aren’t even related. Each show involves a race for the whole day. The race involves two mini-races: first completing a challenge, then second, a race to find a home after given an address, where an unknown relative is behind the door. The teams aren’t allowed to use any smartphones with GPS, they can only use paper maps and oral directions from everyday citizens of the town they are visiting. They have to turn in their smartphones on Day 1 and get a dumb phone in exchange to use for texting and simple phone calls. Ten days compose a season. On Day 10 the overall winner gets $50,000. Here’s what one team of winners did with their winnings.

At the beginning of each show, it just feels like Christmas as I wonder what new relatives the searchers will find. Then as they find them, especially if it’s a mother or father, or sibling, I feel so tender and joyful for those people. It makes me cherish my current relationships a lot more.

Fun fact: I’ve been blessed to meet three people from the show: Team Black of Season 9, Kyle and Layton, at the Orem UT Costco, and Ashlee of Season 13, also of Team Black, at the Spanish Fork UT Pioneer Day parade. It was so fun to meet and talk with them!


Want to read and see more Relative Race? It’s the best reality TV show ever! Watch all the shows here and read all my blog posts about it here. I envy you if you all 15 seasons of the show to watch! It’s a great show to especially watch on Sundays. We do it on Sunday nights. I definitely feel the spirit of Elijah when I do.

Want more of Dan Debenham? Go to this page here where I have a bunch of Dan’s videos curated just for you!

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Fascinating Insights Into Doctrine and Covenants 20 from Jared Halverson: Let’s Call the Fall of Adam and Eve the Jump and Other Things

Posted on March 17, 2025 by treeoflifemama
Image Credit: Unshaken Saints YouTube Channel

I totally loved this week’s Come Follow Christ YouTube video by Jared Halverson of the Unshaken Saints YouTube Channel. This week’s reading involved Doctrine and Covenants section 20, which is known as the constitution of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It also involved section 21 and 22.

First, I loved how he talked about people who say they are spiritual but not religious. He explains why both are needed. That’s at the 5:50 mark. It’s just such a beautiful explanation of truth, with the need to reach out sideways to others and upwards to God.

Second, I love it when he explains that when Jesus uses the bridegroom symbolism, the bridegroom represents Jesus, and the bride is the Church. We are each born into this world as spirit children of Heavenly Parents. We also each have a physical father and mother. When we make a baptismal covenant as we get baptized in the Church, we become children of the covenant, children of Christ. When we become children of Christ, Brother Halverson says that Christ is like our father, and the Church is like our mother. That makes sense since Christ is figuratively married to the Church, since He is the bridegroom and the Church is the bride. Yes, the Church is made of imperfect people but that doesn’t mean we should ask Jesus to divorce the Church. This is all around the 8:41 mark when he starts talking about Paul saying in Ephesians that husbands should love their wives, even as Christ loves the Church. (I have more about the wedding symbolism here.)

Third, I loved how he explained the chart above. You can read the explanation at the 12:23 mark.

Fourth, I loved that he said that April 6th is not necessarily the birthday of Jesus Christ, which many people have been led to believe because of Doctrine and Covenants 20:1. His talking about this is around the 22:05 mark. He explains that some people, like Elder James E. Talmage and Elder David A. Bednar, have interpreted it to mean that day is the Savior’s birthday. Then other people like J. Reuben Clark don’t interpret it that way. I’ve never wanted to either. I don’t think that verse means that 1830 years ago exactly to this day, April 6, 1830, is the day Jesus was born. Ever since I first read that verse in my seminary class in high school I thought, “Well, people say all the time, such-and-such-amount of years ago, this happened, but they usually don’t mean, exactly on this very day that it happened.”

Fifth, I love that he likes to call The Fall of Adam and Eve, The Jump, instead. That’s because he says that Eve did it on purpose, not accident, and it took a leap of faith. He says that Eve had courage and Adam had the wisdom to follow her by partaking of the fruit. That’s at the 41:14 mark. (If you want more about Eve go here and here.) I love this! Yes, it was a jump because it was a leap of faith!

You will have to watch it all, I’m not doing this video complete justice. There is so much more! Enjoy!

Then below is the video for this upcoming week when we study Doctrine and Covenants 23-26. I listen to these videos in the morning as I go about my daily routine, about 30 minutes a day. I do this after I listen to the Book of Mormon for about 5 minutes and then a talk from General Conference, using the suggestions in the Come Follow Christ lesson for the week.

He also has shorter videos that don’t go verse by verse if you don’t want the deep dive. Plus he has daily devotionals. Check out his channel here. He has a theology degree from a divinity school in Tennessee plus a gift for explaining things with stories and analogies, so I just love learning from him.

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3/15/25 Tree of Life Mama’s Date Night Movie of the Week: Like Arrows by the Kendrick Brothers

Posted on March 15, 2025 by treeoflifemama

This is one of those rare unicorn movies that is perfect for a married date night movie because it is about marriage and staying married. I love that it shows the journey of a married couple from a young 20ish years old couple to silvery old age. It shows the tears that come from everyday living, arguments, rebel children, and other trials. Then it shows the joy that comes as a married couple decides to turn their lives over to God and raise their children according to the Bible. It’s done by the Kendrick Brothers, who have produced Fireproof, Facing the Giants, and Courageous. I love that it shows the couple’s 50th wedding anniversary celebration at the end, with family gathered around to honor the couple’s legacy of God-fearing, honorable living in rearing a family to the Lord. It also shows interracial adoption, and what future technology we might have, which make it extra fun. The acting isn’t the best but that’s OK. I hope you enjoy it!

Here’s the trailer below. Then the full movie is below that.

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