Mosiah 7-8

Mosiah sends a party
of 16 people to Lehi-Nephi
to see what has been going on
there for the last several years.
Ammon leads his men out...
after 40 days of wandering
they find Lehi-Nephi.
They camp on a hill and
4 of them go to the city....and
are immediately jailed.
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King Limhi sends for them
to explain just what they are
doing in his land....and when they
tell him, he has their bands loosened
and summons all the people to be
gathered to hear him speak.
He teaches his people...
"..if ye will turn to the Lord with full
purpose of heart, and put your trust in him,
and serve him with all diligence of mind,
if ye do this, he will, according to his own will
and pleasure, deliver you out of bondage."
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Ammon then tells them of
King Benjamin's speech
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Limhi then tells everyone to go home
and tell Ammon about this journey
that his men went on and how they
found this abandoned city, with
bones everywhere, people and animal.
Ruins of buildings, a place that had
been numbered as the hosts of Israel.
(I would have been totally spooked
if I had found a place like that!!!)
They found plates with engravings
on them and King Limhi wanted
someone to be able to translate them.
Ammon tells him of the Prophet
that has the means through the
Lord to have the power to translate
these plates.
King Limhi then rejoices and gives
thanks unto God.
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This was a really fun chapter for
me to read....it almost made me think
of like an Indiana Jones movie or
something....Ammon and his men
searching the land and then
being jailed....Limhi's men
searching the land and finding
these ruins with bones everywhere,
and Gold plates, shields, swords...
just lots of adventure!!!!
I played it out in my mind like
a movie. Fun!!