when the Lamanites marched into Teancum ~

Nephi was working in the Ward Clerk’s office and babysitting his two small children ~

the first time he actually saw the Lamanites was around the third hour ~

the first troops were striplings ~

young girls ~

young boys ~

some could not have been more than eleven years old ~

bearing spears and heavy steel swords ~

many were wearing shrunken heads around their waists and across their chests like trophies ~

then came the regular troops ~

all dressed and painted for war ~

but shouting ~

“peace, peace” ~

in the past months ~

thousands of refugees had come into Teancum from the surrounding provinces ~

they said ~

“the Lamanites are killing people ~

"they are raping ~

"sacrificing people to idols and practicing cannibalism” ~

nobody believed them ~

just last Sunday ~

Nephi’s Bishop had said that it was all rumor and exaggeration ~

he said ~

“The Lamanites would not do such things because we are all the children of Father Lehi” ~

as the Lamanites marched into Teancum ~

crowds gathered in the streets and everyone cheered for peace together ~

the Lamanites behaved in a friendly manner ~

Nephi was so tired of years and years of war ~

when he heard the shouts proclaiming ~

“peace” ~

he thought ~

“oh that is nice ~

"I might be able to go back home to my village and rejoin my relatives” ~

he had lost contact with his parents a couple of years earlier and hoped that now his family could be reunited ~

around the fifth or sixth hour the situation changed ~

the Lamanites said ~

“please ~

"brothers and sisters ~

"you must get out of Teancum as soon as possible ~

"the Great White Sky Father is going to destroy the city ~

"for your own protection ~

"you have to be out.” ~

they sounded very protective ~

very religious ~

very nice ~

but most people were not taking them seriously ~

they said ~

“you have to be out only for three days ~

"we are here to protect you ~

"for your own safety ~

"you have to be out” ~

Nephi began to see more and more people moving out of the city ~

some on foot ~

some in chariots ~

some pushing handcarts ~

by the seventh hour the Lamanites were not using polite language anymore ~

they did not say ~

“brothers and sisters” ~

they said ~

“you must all get out ~

"or else” ~

then the killing began ~

just up the street from the church they set fire to a building because some families refused to come out and had tried to hide ~

they were hoping that after three or four days it would be alright ~

the Lamanites found them because of a barking dog ~

a lot of people were killed ~

lots of relatives and families who had managed to escape the war had come to Teancum and lived together ~

so in one building there would be four or five families ~

Nephi saw with his own eyes Lamanites slaying people in the streets shouting ~

“out or else” ~

people were too afraid to talk or resist ~

the Lamanites spoke in very rural dialects ~

their skin was very dark and the way they behaved was not the Nephite way ~

two blocks from the church, Nephi’s brother-in-law was a patient at the hospital ~

he had been wounded in the battle for the city Desolation ~

his wife ~

Nephi’s sister ~

had arrived at the church with her newborn baby ~

so he sent her to be with him ~

Nephi hoped that no one would harm people in a hospital ~

but he was wrong ~

the Lamanites came in to the hospital and said ~

“everyone must be out” ~

for those who were not able ~

that was it ~

the Lamanites stabbed them right in their hospital beds ~

the sick and the injured did their best to get out ~

some were crawling or moving on their bellies like worms up the street away from the hospital ~

Nephi’s brother-in-law could not walk on his own ~

so Nephi’s sister ~

with the newborn in one arm and her husband on her other shoulder ~

slowly walked the two blocks back to the church ~

most of the Lamanites that were doing the killing were the striplings ~

the Lamanite king was smart in choosing the young to do this ~

they behaved in a very fierce and cruel manner ~

they refused to talk to the people ~

they only said ~

“out out” ~

if anyone tried to say something ~

they shouted ~

“no questions ~

"out" ~

the Great White Sky Father is going to destroy the city” ~

Nephi searched the skies ~

there was no Great White Sky Father ~

only smoke from the fires and Lamanite spears and swords in the streets ~

Nephi’s son was only six months old and his daughter had just celebrated her second birthday ~

he gathered them up and joined the long procession ~

it seemed surreal ~

hundreds of thousands of people moving out of the city ~

the Lamanites used the big central market as the dividing point ~

people south of the central market had to move south ~

the church was north of the central market so Nephi and his group had to move out of the city northward ~

Nephi’s home was in the south part of the city ~

but he saw people trying to pass across the central market to the other side and they were struck down and slain ~

they were killing anyone ~

even children ~

but they killed the adults first ~

everyone was in shock but the Lamanites would not allow anyone to cry ~

if someone cried ~

they were killed ~

“no crying ~

"move ~

"move” ~

Nephi carried both of his children in his arms and tried to help his sister with her baby and husband ~

Nephi’s two wives were not with them ~

they had been visiting their mother in the western part of the city ~

so the Lamanites had probably sent them west ~

still ~

Nephi had hope ~

certainly Jesus would return shortly and peaceful times would return ~

as they reached the outskirts of the city ~

the Lamanites were asking people if they were believers in Christ ~

they said ~

“those of you who are believers in Christ are invited to go back into the city to worship” ~

the Lamanites started calling them “brothers and sisters” again ~

Nephi discerned that it might be a trick ~

so he instructed his sister and brother-in-law to keep their membership in the church a secret ~

as they continued moving north ~

they started seeing many dead bodies lying along the roadside ~

hands tied behind their backs and blindfolded ~

the majority of them were wearing Nephite uniforms and armor ~

others were the elderly ~

the sick ~

and patients from the hospital ~

there was just no way that they could keep up and survive ~

they were just left along the roadside ~

as they walked they had to step on and over many bodies of the dead and dying ~

The Lamanite soldiers shouted at them ~

“move on ~

move on” ~

Nephi’s brother-in-law could not keep up and they had to leave him behind ~

moving north ~

Nephi kept hoping that he would reach the Nephite lines in the land of Comorah and they might be rescued ~

for the space of many days ~

they moved north ~

Nephi’s sister nursed the children ~

they ate herbs they found in the forest ~

they drank from puddles ~

one day they came to an abandoned Nephite fishing village near the seashore ~

further to the north ~

Nephi could see large strange silver boats in the sky ascending and descending like birds ~

he knew that something big must be happening ~

a few nights later ~

Nephi crept up close to a Lamanite camp to try to get some information and perhaps steal some food ~

the Lamanite soldiers were having a huge drunken celebration ~

they danced around big bonfires made from dead bodies and were chanting ~

“we have killed Mormon and his ten thousand!” ~

“we have killed twenty-three Nephite warriors each of them with their ten thousand!” ~


ziller



THE END


in b 4 ~ +++ {Book of Mormon | Mormon 4:3} +++




p. s. ~ now ~

ziller has written somewhat as seemeth him good ~

and ziller writes unto his brothers and sisters ~

the apostates of RfM ~

when ye shall receive these things ~

ziller would exhort you that ye would ask the flying spaghetti monster ~

the eternal father of pasta ~

in the name of sauce ~

if these things are not true ~

and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart ~

with real intent ~

having faith in the flying spaghetti monster ~

he will manifest the truth of it unto you ~

by the power of beer ~

amen ~


ziller



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/11/2019 10:03PM by ziller.

Tea and cum ?

in b 4 ~ +++ {Book of Mormon | Mormon 4:3} +++



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/11/2019 10:02PM by ziller.

Joe Smith needed ziller to ghost write the BOM for him. Then it would have been tolerable to read.

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