"Jeremiah was a bullfrog...and a prophet!"

These past couple of weeks I have been jumping around in the books of Jeremiah and Lamentations (also written by Jeremiah if you didn't know). I am not sure I ever really knew what Lamentations was all about. Of course I know what it means to lament but I didn't know who wrote it, why they were sad, and why it is even in the bible at all. These last couple of weeks I found out that Jeremiah was a great prophet who performed many miracles, prophesied many important things, Jeremiah was also the sad one who wrote Lamentations, and Lamentations was written because Jerusalem had fallen and Jeremiah was sad  about all of his friends who had been killed or taken into bondage. This part of the bible also ties really good into the Book of Mormon. The start of the Book of Mormon starts with Lehi taking his family, eventually getting the brass plates (old testament), and escaping from Jerusalem before it fell and moving to the Americas. If anyone is following along with my blog you know that I am reading my scriptures in Spanish and am finding it a whole lot easier to understand them. I've really come to understand the different situations of each prophet in their own timeline. Here is Jeremiah who tried to tell the people to repent of their sins and turn to God but whom just about all rejected him. He then goes on and writes a whole book about how sad he is because the people didn't listen to him and how hopeless he felt for the state of Zion at the time. He lived in the most crucial scariest times in just about all of Jewish history up until then. He had the difficult charge to warn the people about it and get rejected.