Welcome to my scriptures, Book of Mormon: Alma 53

     Today I thought it would be fun to introduce my scriptures to you.  I have had these scriptures since I was around the age of 10 (now I am 26) and I love them.  Sometimes I think of scriptures like a journal because I have written some of my thoughts in them and they are filled with color from marking the scriptures that I liked that day.  So here they are:

      Aren't they a beauty of a site!  Okay the cover is sort of not connected anymore to the rest of the book, but who cares right?  I still love them.  I think it will be a sad day when I have to part with them.

This is me.  I took this picture a couple  days ago.  I am currently 34 weeks pregnant by the way.  To get to know me better, I have another blog about my family, my faith, and my feelings:   westonandbexi.blogspot.com.

So today my studies brought me to Alma 53 found in the Book of Mormon. Apparently when I was younger, probably in high school when boys were pretty much the focus of my world, I wrote this in my scriptures while I was studying this chapter:

"I want to marry a stripling warrior"

     It's right next to the scriptures talking about these young men as honest and clean.  What girl, in all honestly, doesn't want to marry an honest/sober kind of man.  Now of course my focus is a little different now that I am married and have a daughter and a son on the way.  Now when I read these scriptures I notice the words in verse 21  "for they had been taught to keep the commandments of God and to walk uprightly before him."
      Now when I read those scriptures I realize that I have a responsibility to teach my children to keep the commandments of God and to walk uprightly before Him.  That is something I love about the scriptures as well.  No matter how many times I have read the same passages of scripture or what stage of life I am in, I can still relate to them somehow.  I believe they were truly written and preserved for our day, so when I was a young teenager with crazy hormones, I still had the desire the marry an honest/sober man because of the example of these young men that I read at that age.  And now as I read these scriptures I have the desire for honest/sober children.  So what do I need to do?  Teach them to live the gospel.

Love,
     Becky joy