Documentation

I am glad to have everything so well documented, because it is my experience that memory is no substitute for firsthand account of things.

A comment

As I had my phone in hand I will record my nightly thoughts regarding my time spent reading the Bookof Mormon tonight.

31 But behold, the Nephites were not slow to remember the Lord their God in this their time of affliction. They could not be taken in their snares; yea, they would not partake of their wine, save they had first given to some of the Lamanite prisoners.
32 And they were thus cautious that no poison should be administered among them; for if their wine would poison a Lamanite it would also poison a Nephite

I was really not expecting that. I felt all along like the armies of Moroni or other called the armies of the Nephitepeople were in my mind righteous peoplewinning their wars from the aid of God. Iget that notion As well from the old testament where one can determine which side of a battle God was on by learning who won. If thestory of David and Goliath taught anything it is that regardless what seems the outcome will always be God.

So, while I was thinking of these men as being Godly and all I assumed that they lived in accordance with all of God's ways. I naturally assumed that such adherence would include liquor which could potentially take away one's abilities and that was how the Lamanites were thwarted in attempts to overpower the Godly people. I was recently reading how George Washington's armies sought to win by being exactly obedient to God's laws, thereby winning his favor. It was commented how uncharacteristic it was for soldiers to be such upstanding gentlemen, yet such were the armies of Washington.

But, instead, it said the Lamanites were thwarted because the poison was detected before the men drank it. That caught me off gaurd.