Kibbutz

    Kibbutzim are sooo cool! It is seriously a group of people living the Law of Consecration and it works! I love it!! Kibbutzim (singular: Kibbutz) are little communities where everyone works and then are given the money they need to live. Your pay doesn't depend on your job or how many hours you work. If you want extra money to buy something, the entire community comes together and decides if you should get the money or not. Everyone helps each other out with everything--including raising your kids. To join the kibbutz you had to live there temporarily for awhile and then the community decided if they liked you and you could stay. It was really neat to see a community like this that worked out so great. The resort we stayed at in the Galilee was owned by a kibbutz. The Kibbutz was called Ein Gev. We got to go and tour the kibbutz along with their banana farm.





A banana bundle still in its pod. (none of those were the technical terms by the way)

Emily and I in the farm

This is what the typical house looked like on the Kibbutz. Nothing extravagant.

Not to brag or anything, but I got to stay there for 2 weeks and watch the sunset over the Sea of Galilee every night.

The Kibbutz also had a large fishing industry that helped fuel their economy.

    At the end of the tour, we got to sit and ask our guide any questions we had. We learned so much! I want to share just one insight I had. First, a little background. Just a few days before, in class, we had discussed the parable of the 10 virgins. Our teacher reminded us that it is about the members of the church and then suggested that the fact that 50% were ready and 50% were not was an actual number. When the Savior comes only 50% of the church will be living worthily and ready to receive him. 50 percent! That seemed really surprising to me. Ok, back to the kibbutz. Someone asked our guide if the members were allowed to leave or if they had to stay there. His response, "Of course they can leave! About 50% of the children who are raised on the kibbutz leave. But that also means that 50% stay." Wow! It just hit me. Only 50% of the people on the kibbutz were ready to live the Law of Consecration, a celestial law, (if we look at it that way) and 50% were not. Maybe there really is something to the idea that only half the church will be ready at the 2nd coming. So which half are you going to be in?

Until my next adventure,

Lindy