A Story About a Great Big Olive Tree

Jacob 5:11 It grieveth me that I should lose this tree.

When this book began, Lehi was the prophet. But then Lehi died and Nephi became the prophet. Then Nephi died and his brother Jacob became the prophet. And Jacob, just like Nephi and Lehi, spent a lot of time writing stuff down.

And that is normal for prophets. They write about a lot of things, but mostly they write about Jesus. Throughout history, they’ve written their words on wood, on paper, and even on stone. But the stone was very heavy and it was hard to read or move around from place to place. The paper and wood were nice for a while but they would get old and begin rotting and cracking and breaking and soon enough, they were impossible to read. And so the prophets wrote the most important things on sheets of metal. Precious metal.

The metal was expensive like gold but that’s not what made it precious. It was precious because it didn’t corrupt or grow old or die like sticks, and paper, and people. If you wrote on a piece of th…