Hope in darkness

Coming to know the truth

Once they arrive home Savvy rushes to the room she has been in and shuts the door. As she lies on the bed she turns to Nephi chapter four. She reads each page marking on things she likes and question in a crisp sharp red colored pencil. Suddenly after about ten pages there is a pounding on the door.

"What are you doing we need to eat dinner?" comes the beloved but irritable voice of Sam.

"I am reading if you must know exactly what I am doing, let me finish this chapter and I will be right out," she says with a smile. He opens the door and looks surprised to find that she is reading from the book of mormon but is smiling as he sees the red marking pencil in her right hand.

"That is a good reason, I will tell my dad I am sure he will understand, just so you know school is now online since our building has been burned down, until they can build it back up and declare it safe," he says caressing her hair daintly as she smiles up at him still letting one eye rest on the words  on the pages.

"Wow, I just cannot believe my first day back and this happens, it all seems unreal and impossible in my opinion," she says with a smirk and then swats him out so she can finish.

She reads the words of some vision of the tree of life which fruit makes her mouth water haven not eaten since breakfast. She goes on trying to discover the meaning of this vision that sounds beautiful and a place she would like to be.  When she reads about the people mocking them she is brought back to an experience in middle school when people mocked Missy and Sam for being Mormon and believing in a modern day prophet. Missy had stood up and said "I would rather stand with God and be judged of the world than stand with the world and be judged of God." Until now she never realized what it meant but now Savvy understood. The fruit is the love the blessings of God making the iron rod to be his word and commandments. She then took out a sheet of paper from her school bag and drew an iron rod and labeled it word of god, the depths of misery and sin, the tower of the world, and a glorious tree with juicy golden fruit labeling the tree a tree of life and the fruit love and blessings of God. She is a visual learned so she likes to paint pictures of whatever she is reading.  She pins it up on her wall and then ascends out of her room to the dinner table.

"How do you like it so far," their father asks her with a huge grin on his face.

"I love it," she says with smirk dishing out chili and green beans as Sam passes it to her.

"I was thinking if you would like every thursday night, they come over for dinner and you could have a lesson with them," his dad says with a smirk in between chews of green beans.

"Sure," she says happily as she dishes out the corn. Suddenly, there is a pounding on the front door and Sam gets it. It looks like a little freshman with curly blond hair that falls to her butt.

"Oh Dan, I am sorry I could not be at the hospital my parents would not let me, are you okay sugarbear?" she says inviting herself in and running towards Dan who does not look amused but mortified.

"Rosie for the eightieth time I do not date before I am sixteen and I do not even like you like that so please go away," he says angrily wheelingg back so she cannot grab him.

"He is right sweetheart I will not allow it and we were just having dinner would you please leave," his father retorts a she keeps coming closer to him.

"I have a gift for you," she says giving him a box of chocolates.

"LEAVE THIS HOUSE NOW YOUNG LADY," their father says and she runs out as her curls bounce crying throwing them the box of chocolates.

"I would rather have fruit," Savvy says picturing perfect golden fruit that has never been tasted. Sam gets up and grabs what looks like a watermelon bowl from the kitchen.

"Behold fruit from the tree of life," Sam says and they all giggle and partake of the fruit and another pounding comes on the door.