Alma 56:41-57
41 - Helaman: "We continue to flee before the Lamanites."
42 - In the morning of the third day of the seventh month, the Lamanites halted.
43 - We didn't know why they halted. Maybe to catch us in a snare or because Antipus overcame them.
44 - Helaman: "What say ye my sons, will ye go against them to battle?"
45 - Never had I seen so great courage.
46 - My sons said unto me: "Father, behold our God is with us, and He will not suffer that we shall fall; then let us go forth; . . .
47 - Now they never had fought, yet they did not fear death; and they did think more upon the liberty of their fathers than they did upon their lives; yea, they had been taught by their mothers, that if they did not doubt, God would deliver them.
48 - We do no doubt our mother's knew it.
49 - We returned to help Antipus fight the Lamanites.
50 - Antipus's army was about to fall.
51 - Antipus and many leaders had fallen by the sword.
52 - Lamanites halt and turn upon Helaman's army.
53 - Antipus's army attacks from the rear.
54 - We, our two armies, did surround the Lamanites and sley them insomuch that they gave up their weapons and became our prisoners of war.
55-56 - Not one of my young men had been slain. They fought with great strength!
57 - The prisoners of war were sent to Zarahemla.
GC: "Always Remember Him" by Elder Gerrit W. Gong.
James's back hurts so bad this morning that I rub some Deep Blue on it and he goes back to bed. He is also a little discouraged because he does not have his temple clothes or his temple recommend for tonight. He called the temple and they said he could wear scrubs and booties and then he called the bishop and he said he would call the temple about his recommend.
We have the privilege of cleaning this temple tonight.
I finished all the Church magazines for the month of August. Now I can start Septembers. For lunch today James and I both had beans
and salad.
Sadly the "treat yoself" always wins.
I am not looking forward to going to the valley tomorrow. We are going down because Michael is being ordained an elder on Sunday. I am proud of him and would not want to miss this special event.
We left early for temple cleaning to get gas, wash our car, and run through Sonic for some dinner. I had a grilled cheese sandwich because I felt like it wouldn't be messy. James, who was driving, got a hamburger with mustard. Of course he got mustard on the sleeve of his shirt. The temple looked something like this:
We had 25 people come to help us clean the temple. The Burkey's who are summer visitors, and the Price's who are visitors. Rick and Pam Giles, Teresa and Wes Smith, Owen and Donna Peeler, Fred and Barbara Klug, Gary and Maxine Thompson, Tamara and Jimmy Applegate, Sister Virginia Chaffin, Brother Clayton Reidhead, Sister Garp, Ann Miller, Rusty Allen and Steve Allen, Kip Hunsaker, Sam Gordon, and Steve Butler. What a great feeling to have a ward that is so supportive!
These are my brother's Harold's youngest grandsons. They belong to Monte and Tasha. One is almost 13 and the other will be 16. They are such handsome boys!
