I have not yet begun to fight!

At efy this year, there were many talk that really hit me and I still remember a lot of it today
There was many other great talks, but this one I enjoyed a lot

John Paul Jones, born in Scotland, came to America later on, searching for his new life
He was a great seaman and once the revolutionary war broke out, he joined the US Navy
Back then.. our Navy was weak, they acted as pirates and  they sabotage the British ships

In September 1779, Jones served as captain of  Bonhomme Richard an old converted merchant vessel, and commanded a "fleet" of three smaller warships in the waters off Scotland and northern England when he encountered a British convoy carrying naval stores to England from the Baltic Sea region. Acting as an escort to this convoy were two British warships. The largest of these warships, which Jones engaged, was Serapis, a 44-gun vessel - though at the time carrying fifty guns - with a crew of 284. A ship of that size and firepower occupied a place in the eighteenth-century Royal Navy equivalent to a cruiser in its twentieth-century counterpart. From the battle's onset, Bonhomme Richard was at a disadvantage fighting a ship with superior firepower and maneuverability

He sailed to the Serapis, firing any firepower they had on their ship, which then got destroy from the 44-gun vessel.. Understanding immediately that it would be suicidal to continue to sail toward the vessel, he did so.
He got close enough  allowing his crew to use grapples and lines to secure Bonhomme Richard to the 44-gun vessel.
John Paul's ship was  so battered that it resembled more a raft than a fighting ship. In fact, the British gunners wreaked such devastation with their broadsides  that their  cannonballs would pass through Bonhomme Richard without hitting anything solid.

By this time  half of his crew were dead or wounded.  At this point in the battle, the senior warrant officer of Bonhomme Richard and the ship's carpenter, unable to see their captain or the first lieutenant and assuming both were dead, decided to surrender their sinking, burning ship. They called for a ceasefire and ran

 Hearing their calls for surrender, an enraged Jones drew his pistols and ran at them, shouting, "shoot them, kill them!"  Jones, finding his pistols unloaded, hurled his empty guns at the carpenter, the slower of the two fleeing men, striking him on the head and knocking him unconscious. The captain of the British warship, who heard the calls for surrender, yelled across to the Jones, taunting him. Jones then replied, "I have not yet begun to fight," - With that, the battle continued.

A Scottish seaman serving in Bonhomme Richard,  began to throw the eighteenth-century equivalent of hand grenades onto the deck of the enemy. One of these "grenades" rolled down a partially opened hatch and landed near cartridges that had been stacked along the portside guns of the Serapis. Because of the position of the two ships, these guns were not in action and these spare cartridges were piled behind them. The grenade's explosion ignited these cartridges, which in turn ignited other cartridges on the gun deck creating a flash-fire, which had a devastatingly horrible effect in the cramped gun deck filled with men and officers. Twenty crewmen died instantly and another thirty were badly injured. Several of these men - their clothes burned off, their skin seared, and their hair on fire - jumped out of the ship's gun ports into the sea. With this disaster, the big guns of Serapis fell silent.

When news of the disaster was conveyed to the captain, Richard Pearson, he decided to surrender and save his remaining crew from slaughter. Calling for quarter, he personally made his way to the rear of the warship and hauled down the battle ensign. Thus ended the three-and-one-half-hour battle. Jones and his crew had prevailed and had captured the enemy's vessel, which was fortunate since the badly damaged Bonhomme Richard sank shortly after the battle. Against long odds and a formidable foe, they had achieved a remarkable victory.

The battle was over.
Brother McDonald shared stories from the book of Mormon too,   he talked to us about when you feel like giving up, don't and to think of "I have not yet begun to fight!" he bore his testimony to us, efy was the first week of July, it's now the first week of November... I have not forgotten those words
I used them while I was on trek, been using it while I work out too, I have not yet begun to fight!

Endure to the end, stay strong in the Gospel and you won't regret it