Helaman 5
Nephi was tired of trying to righteously enforce laws conceived in wickedness—that is why he gave up the judgment seat in favor of full-time preaching. I’ll bet there were days that Elder Oaks felt like that although the laws he was working to enforce were generally decent even when they may have been misguided.
In the prison in the land of Ishmael the Lord did the preaching on behalf of Nephi and Lehi. They stood and humbly bore whatever the Lord saw fit to be done to them and He encircled them with fire. Then He shook the prison. Then He brought a cloud of darkness. The He spoke above the cloud calling those people to repent. Most of the men who had come to kill these Nephite preachers were without any real exposure to the gospel therefore they had not previously rejected the gospel. That is a different kind of missionary work than preaching to those who are already deeply exposed and have chosen to rebel.
Aminadab had been a member of the church and then had rebelled. Many if not all of the rest of the Lamanites there were apparently descendants of the Zoramites. The Zoramites had defected from the Nephites to the Lamanites and now their seed were counted as natural Lamanites.
With thousands of new converts and dozens if not hundreds of new missionaries the majority of the Lamanites were soon brought to a knowledge of the truth and ceased their struggle against the Nephites.
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