“It Beginneth to Be Delicious to Me”
Describing the fruit of the tree of life, Lehi said, “it filled my soul with exceedingly great joy; wherefore, I began to be desirous that my family should partake of it also; for I knew that it was desirable above all other fruit” (1 Nephi 8:12). Lucy Mack Smith records a similar vision granted her husband, Joseph Smith Sr. Finding that the fruit of the tree was “delicious beyond description,” he also determined that he could not eat it alone. He gathered his family to the tree and invited them to eat. “The more we ate,” he said, “the more we seemed to desire, until we even got down upon our knees and scooped it up, eating it by double handfuls.” (History of Joseph Smith by His Mother Lucy Mack Smith, pp. 49-50.)
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