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Structure your personal scripture study by following a multimedia, day by day plan. Each day's assignment includes the required scripture passages from the Come Follow Me curriculum, as well as suggestions for additional resources to bring context and understanding to your study. To dive deeper, skip down to Additional Resources for a selected bibliography on this week's chapters. If you are looking to dive deep into your study, skip down to "Additional Resources" for a selected bibliography of articles, books, and chapters on Jacob 5–7.

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Scripture: Jacob 5:29–50

Jacob 5:29–50 Quote : “It seems that some among us have this same problem; they want bountiful harvests—both spiritual and temporal—without developing the root system that will yield them. There are far too few who are willing to pay the price, in discipline and work, to cultivate hardy roots. Such cultivation should begin in our youth. Little did I know as a boy that daily chores in the garden, feeding the cattle, carrying the water, chopping the wood, mending fences, and all the labor of a small farm was an important part of sending down roots, before being called on to send out branches. I’m so grateful that my parents understood the relationship between roots and branches. Let us each cultivate deep roots, so that we may secure the desired fruits of our welfare labors.” Kimball, Spencer W. “The Fruit of Our Welfare Services Labors,” General Conference October 1978

: “It seems that some among us have this same problem; they want bountiful harvests—both spiritual and temporal—without developing the root system that will yield them. There are far too few who are willing to pay the price, in discipline and work, to cultivate hardy roots. Such cultivation should begin in our youth. Little did I know as a boy that daily chores in the garden, feeding the cattle, carrying the water, chopping the wood, mending fences, and all the labor of a small farm was an important part of sending down roots, before being called on to send out branches. I’m so grateful that my parents understood the relationship between roots and branches. Let us each cultivate deep roots, so that we may secure the desired fruits of our welfare labors.” Kimball, Spencer W. “The Fruit of Our Welfare Services Labors,” General Conference October 1978 Quote : “Looking out on the events of almost any day, God replies: '...Wherefore should not the heavens weep, seeing these shall suffer?' That single, riveting scene does more to teach the true nature of God than any theological treatise could ever convey. It also helps us understand much more emphatically that vivid moment in the Book of Mormon allegory of the olive tree, when after digging and dunging, watering and weeding, trimming, pruning, transplanting, and grafting, the great Lord of the vineyard throws down his spade and his pruning shears and weeps, crying out to any who would listen, 'What could I have done more for my vineyard?' What an indelible image of God’s engagement in our lives! What anguish in a parent when His children do not choose Him nor 'the gospel of God' He sent! How easy to love someone who so singularly loves us!” Holland, Jeffrey R. “The Grandeur of God,” General Conference October 2003

: “Looking out on the events of almost any day, God replies: '...Wherefore should not the heavens weep, seeing these shall suffer?' That single, riveting scene does more to teach the true nature of God than any theological treatise could ever convey. It also helps us understand much more emphatically that vivid moment in the Book of Mormon allegory of the olive tree, when after digging and dunging, watering and weeding, trimming, pruning, transplanting, and grafting, the great Lord of the vineyard throws down his spade and his pruning shears and weeps, crying out to any who would listen, 'What could I have done more for my vineyard?' What an indelible image of God’s engagement in our lives! What anguish in a parent when His children do not choose Him nor 'the gospel of God' He sent! How easy to love someone who so singularly loves us!” Holland, Jeffrey R. “The Grandeur of God,” General Conference October 2003 Chart: Symbolic Elements in Zenos's Allegory

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Scripture: Jacob 5:51–70

Jacob 5:51–70 Quote : “Clearly this at-one-ment is hard, demanding, and, at times, deeply painful work, as the work of redemption always is. There is digging and dunging. There is watering and nourishing and pruning. And there is always the endless approaches to grafting-all to one saving end, that the trees of the vineyard would 'thrive exceedingly' and become 'one body; . . . the fruits [being] equal,'… It has always been the work of Christ (and his disciples) in every dispensation to gather them, heal them, and unite them with their Master.” Holland, Jeffrey R. Christ and the New Covenant. 165-166. Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 1997.

: “Clearly this at-one-ment is hard, demanding, and, at times, deeply painful work, as the work of redemption always is. There is digging and dunging. There is watering and nourishing and pruning. And there is always the endless approaches to grafting-all to one saving end, that the trees of the vineyard would 'thrive exceedingly' and become 'one body; . . . the fruits [being] equal,'… It has always been the work of Christ (and his disciples) in every dispensation to gather them, heal them, and unite them with their Master.” Holland, Jeffrey R. Christ and the New Covenant. 165-166. Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 1997. Quote : “The Savior’s call is to you of the rising generation. He is asking for worthy, prepared, faithful young men and young women who will heed the prophet’s voice, who will step up and say, as the Savior Himself said, ‘Here am I, send me.’ The need has never been greater. The field has never been whiter. You are called to go ‘this last time.’ There is no greater work; there is no greater call than teaching ‘all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.’” Nielson, Brent H. “A Call to the Rising Generation,” General Conference October 2009.

: “The Savior’s call is to you of the rising generation. He is asking for worthy, prepared, faithful young men and young women who will heed the prophet’s voice, who will step up and say, as the Savior Himself said, ‘Here am I, send me.’ The need has never been greater. The field has never been whiter. You are called to go ‘this last time.’ There is no greater work; there is no greater call than teaching ‘all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.’” Nielson, Brent H. “A Call to the Rising Generation,” General Conference October 2009. Chart: Personal Applications of Olive Symbolism

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