April 7, 2011

One of my favorite stories

Like the title said this is one of my favorite stories. It is in the Book of Mormon. It is known to many people as Helaman's Stripling Warriors. OK so the story goes and I may miss a few details. These Stripling Warriors are the sons of those Lamanties that Ammon went and taught. Their fathers made a covenant with the Lord not to fight. The son's however did not make this covenant. So they decided to take up arms and defend these people and Helaman was chosen to be their leader. So they go into a great battle and they fight hard. So in huge battles like we all know WW2, WW1, Civil war, all those good ones many people die. The amazing thing with these 2 thousand, yes there were 2 thousand of them, none died. There were many deaths but none of them involved these Stripling Warriors. In the 57 chapter of Alma verses 25-26 it says

25And it came to pass that there were two hundred, out of my two thousand and sixty, who had fainted because of the loss of blood; nevertheless, according to the goodness of God, and to our great astonishment, and also the joy of our whole army, there was anot one soul of them who did perish; yea, and neither was there one soul among them who had not received many wounds.
 26And now, their apreservation was astonishing to our whole army, yea, that they should be spared while there was a thousand of our brethren who were slain. And we do justly ascribe it to the miraculous bpower of God, because of their exceeding cfaith in that which they had been taught to believe—that there was a just God, and whosoever did not doubt, that they should be preserved by his marvelous power.

Now I can not say it as good as verse 26. If you have faith in God he will do a lot for you. So have faith in Him and it may not be to be preserved in some huge battle as these young men were but He will do many things for you.