Title Of Liberty

Alma Chapter 46

11 And now it came to pass that when

Moromi, who was the chief commander

of the armies of the Nephites, had heard

of these dissenssions, he was angry with

Amalickiah.

12 And it came to pass that he rend his coat; and he took apiece thereof, and wrote upon it

-- It memory of our God, Our religion, and freedom, and our peace, our wives, and our children--

and he fastened it upon the end of a pole.

13 And he fastened on his headplate, and his breastplate, and his shields, and girded on his armor about his loins; and he took the pole which had on the end thereof his rent coat, (and he called it the title of liberty) and he bowed himself to the earth, and he prayed mightily unto his god for the blessing of liberty to rest upon his brethren so long as there should a band a Christians remain to posses the land.

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18 And he said: Surely God shall not suffer that we who are despised because we take upon us the name of Christ, shall

be trodden down and destroyed, until we bring it upon us by our own transgression.

19 And whhen Moroni had said these words, he went forth among the people, waving the rent part of his garment in the air, that all might see the writing which he had written upon the rent part, and crying with a loude voice, saying:

20 Behold, whosoever will maintain this title upon the land, let them come forth in the strength of the Lord, and enter into a covenant that they will maintain their rights, and their religion, that the Lord God may bless them.

21 And it came to pass that when Moroni had proclaimed these words, behold, the people came running together with their armor girded about their loins, ending their garments in token, or as a covenant, that they would not forsake the Lord their God; or, in other words, if they should transgress the commandments of God, or fall into transgression, and be ashamed to take upon them the name of Christ, the Lord should rend them even as they had rent their garments.

22 Now this was the covenant whcich they made, and they cast their garments at the feet of Moroni, saying: We covenant with our God, that we shall be destroyed, even as our brethren in the land northward, if we shall fall into transgression; yeah, he may cast us at the feet of our enemies, even as we have cast our garments at thy feet to be trodden under foot, if we shall fall into transgression.

23 Moroni said unto them: Behold, we are a remnant of the seed of Jacob; yea, we are a remnant of the seed of Joseph, whose coat wa rent by his brethren into many pieces; yea, and now behold, let us remember to keep the commandments of God, or our garments shall be rent by our brethren, and we be cast into prision, or be sold, or be slain.

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What is my title of liberty. My Standard to the nations?

Love God will all your heart, might, mind and strength

Be true to God and to you

Never forget you are a Daughter of God and should be treated acordingly

Always treat others with respect and dignity

Love your neighbor

Enjoy life

Keep the commandments

One day when I find who I am looking for, I won't have to list off my standards, or think about making exceptions, because he will have the same ones.

what?

So I am not sick anymore, but ... ok well I am sick but I am feeling mch better. But my dad on the other hand. Man he is sick!

We are watching Valkyrie, so far it is pretty good.

I really want to watch Taken.

Jo is not good at watching movies... he keeps talking!

i don't really know what to write about!

coughing

:'( no one ever leaves me comments any more. Now I know how Soren feels. except... neither of us have really even had a lot of comments.

Well I am sick. My mom had the flu, not the stomach flu, and so did Jo. But Robby had alergies and so I don't think he is really sick and I think I just have a cold! Because I do not have ache's, or shakes, or chills, or a fever, or anything like that! Just a stupid runny nose and a stupid cough! yet I still can't go see anyone. though if I randomly went on a walk and someone just "happened" to go on a walk at the same time as me ... at the same place.... That is not really going to see anyone is it?

I don't know. But I think I am going to do some chores today, but not one's that involve being sparkly clean with no germs... because even if I don't have the flu I still have germs so I won't do that. I will probablly do some vacuuming and sweep and moping. sounds lovely. Maybe even some dusting. I would like that. I need to go to the store and get some lysol so I can spray down my house. Then people can come in!

How long does the common cold last? liek 2 weeks? lame... oh well at least I will be able to do things. Hey moy mom was talking about how when she coughed it hurt all the way down into her chest... It has not really done that to me at all. Just the regular satisfying cough where it feels like it is not just you trying to get something up. Do you know the one? If you are going to cough that is the best one to get, because it feels satisfying. I know I am weird for thinking that a cough could be satisfying but still... it is.

The Fantastic Four!.... only less fantastic, more Fateful

I have drawn all four of the charcters now. They look so much better when you can see all of the details, but oh well, this is the best I can do. There is Warren Peace... I think I did rather well... and again... all of them! Lovely!

Treking away from me

Soren is on Trek. It is rather maddening.

Though I have been reading Howl's moving castle. Which is amazing. don't you know?

And I have been drawing more. but onl y one more picture. I want to do a really detailed one with Warren, Topher, Trea, and Ranna. That wold be cool. Soren did one (that was AMAZING) and it was when Ranna is recovering from... dying and they all wear cool arm bands. :D they actually get the whole school to do it.

I am so excited for the story we are going to write.

I love Willy Wonka! I am watching Charlie and the Chocolate Factory!

Anyway....

Go Aggies!

So I am at USU right now, but Am not having the time of my life. It is fun. but it would be more fun If I knew someone. I have met lots of people but I am not very good at keeping conversations up for more than a few topics. I think that .. I hope that I will be able to make MANY MANY friends when I come up here to actually live. Hopefully my roommates will make good friends. Though three or four of them have been living together for 3 years. MY roommate actually is getting married so she is not going to be my roommate. Maybe I will get a roommate that I can be really good friends with. oh well, who knows!

Loves! Night!

Nicknames are AMAZING! (Trea, Topher, Ranna)

This is Ranna, Topher and Trea in their uniforms as I have imagined them.... I don't know if Soren will like the way I did Ranna... but I thought she was amazing. I will have to see what Soren thinks of her. I would call her but... she may be at church. and I don't really know. So I will just call her at like 4:30 or 5.

Trea's eyes are different. I realized that this morning. But I thought oh well. both of the eyes look really good... they are just not the same!!!! haha!

Topher looks pretty amazing if I do say so myself. He also has some things wrong with him but , hey nobody's perfect!

Ranna on the other hand... is nearly perfect except for her hand. but oh well. I took the easy way out and put her hair covering her eye so I only had to draw one, and then I covered her other hand with a flame so I did not have to draw that hand. oh well. If you can cheat without hurting yourself. DO IT!

That is kind of what the personal trainer at gold's gym said. If you can cheat your body into thinking it has worked for a long time do it! That is what we did yesterday! oh man. He only worked us out for 15 minutes but man am I feeling it today! And yesterday I felt like I had been working out for 2 hours after the 15 minutes were over!

I love drawing. I don't know why I don't do it more. Ranna only took me about ... actually I drew her in sacrament meeting. :P well, I did her face at home and the coloring took a while but still. It was not as long as it normally takes me to draw a person like that.

Oh, Soren, I hope you don't mind that I made Ranna's eyes purple. I didn't know what color they really were so I just picked up a pencil. They make her uniform cooler though. cause you probably can't tell on the compy but there is purple in her uniform.

Well that was a lovely rant. Tune in next time for "The answer to mine was a secret!" Courtesy of Soren for introducing me to Mirror Mask

the wicked taketh the truth to be hard

Today I did some stupid stuff... well it was not really stupid, just not smart

Anyway, my daddy came in and told me that I got to choose how to spend my Sabbath days, and no one else. so how did I want to spend them?

At first I was angry with him. I can do what ever I want!

Then I realized that is exactly what he said. I can do what ever I want. So what will I do?

What Will I do?

Treasa... Trea for Short!

Trea rushed through the hall, glancing at the signs as she passed. Where was the lunch room!? The school could not be that big! Then she saw it, a big sign over double doors “lunch room.”

She bounded down the hall but was stopped as she toppled over a young man, and landed on the floor.

“Ow!” she yelped as she hit the ground landing on her bottom. She brushed her hair out of her face, tucking her green streak behind her ear. The guy she had run into was staring at her like he had never seen a girl before.

Trea suddenly realized that she had knocked into him. “Oh, I am so sorry! I didn’t mean to knock into you; I just got lost and finally saw the sign for the lunchroom and wanted to hurry and get something to eat before it was over—“

She broke off when the lunchroom door slammed against the wall as a dark girl with a red streak in her hair stalked out. She spared a side look at Trea and the strange boy on the ground then kept stalking down the hall where she entered room and disappeared. This girl obviously did not have too many friends, she was to silent, Trea could tell that much just by looking at her. Dark hair, dark clothes, red streak. This girl stayed away from people.

“Who’s she?” Trea asked the boy.

“Ranna.” He said with a touch of longing, that no one but Trea would have noticed. “Don’t bother trying to be her friend. She’s not the type.” He said that as if he were trying to warn her, but even though Trea caught subtle hints of longing, she missed the outright warning of danger.

“Nonsense,” Trea smiled as she stood and offered her hand to the young man, who ignored it and stood up on his own.

“Everyone is the friend type.” She continued. “Someone just has to be brave enough to be pesky. I’m Treasa by the way. Not Teresa, Treasa. Trea for short. You know like that thing in the front of the school, the big one with lots of shade—“

She broke off as the boy turned and almost ran away. He obviously needed some friends too, or maybe he just didn’t like her.

Oh well, she walked into the lunch room and got her lunch, then looked around for a spot to sit. There was an empty table to her right, but she waltzed right past it and sat down next to a group of people.

They all looked up surprised. Trea smiled. “Hey guys, My name is Treasa. Well, actually I go by Trea. You know like an actual tree? Well anyway, just call me Trea. Who are you guys?” She stuffed some bread in her mouth and began to chew as she looked up expectantly.

The teens looked at each other then smiled at her.

“I’m Will,” the boy closest to her said, “And this is Layla, Ethan, Magenta, and Zach. Oh and Warren is over getting some lunch.”

Trea followed his finger and turned to see the boy she had run into earlier. “Warren? So he does have friends…”

“What?” Will asked, clearly confused.

Trea looked back to him, “Oh… sorry I was just debating on whether he didn’t have friends or just didn’t like me! Looks like he just does not like me, guess I will have to change that!” She smiled and then got up and walked out of the Lunch room.

The room turned out to be the Library. Trea looked around and saw her, what was her name? Ranna. Trea smiled, walked up to her table and set her books down across from Ranna and sat down.

“Hey,” she whispered rather loudly, “I’m Trea! Well actually my name is Treasa, not Teresa, Treasa, but I like to go by Trea so you can just—“

“Are you finished?” Ranna asked, rather monotone as she flipped between pages in a book and then wrote something down.

Trea leaned back in her chair. “Well now that you mention it, I don’t think I am. Did you know I have never been to a school before? I actually have never even seen this many people in one place before! You know, people take other people for granted, it is really hard to find a true friend especially when there are so many people out there who just want to hurt you. For instance, I can bet you $10 you really wish you could use your powers on me right now, but we both know that if you did… it will be Isolation for both of us, and there is no way I am ending up in there on my first day!”

“If you don’t stop talking now, there won’t even be any ashes of you left to put in the isolation room.” Ranna said this all very quietly, still not looking up from her notes.

Trea smiled wider, well at least she was talking. “Ah, so you are a flamer… cool! You know I knew a flamer once, he was a hot head, he couldn’t even control it! But you know… I…am gonna stop now.” Ranna had glanced up from her notes and the phrase “if looks could kill” ran through Trea’s mind.

Ranna went back to her note taking, and Trea stood up. “Well, I will see you later, Ranna! Maybe at the rooming assignments!”

Dreamland?

Am I dreaming nor is high school really over with?

Do I really never have to go again?

Is graduation really tomorrow?

YES!!!!!!

Graduation is tomorrow! and I got my graduation present yesterday... and am TYPING ON IT RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes this is correct. I have a laptop.

I think everyone should know that I LOVE L-O-V-E Ouran High School Host Club.

It is amazing. there are some parts that I don't fance to much but it is amazing all the same!

have a feeling yesterday is going to be better than today will be.

I ran yesterday and it felt amazing! then I helped and went to an elementary school. then I helped my aunt get out of the house. AND got my nails done ( they are longr and it is throwing me off!) then Soren came over and we had some fun and then I got a laptop! I mean how much better can you get?

Today I was going to run.... but I played with alfonzo(my laptop) instead. then I sat there for 2 hours watching ouran host club. I hate just sitting on the compy.... it bothers me. It is so pointless and boring.l I don't know why I do it!

Anyway. I Have work today. And am really excited. we will probably be inside today which mean sno outside sun! YAY! even though I like the sun.

Well I got to go show off my gradgeation present!