What Nephi had done

When the Lord speaks of how Nephi had proceed himself faithful we should consider what we know.

1. Nephi served as a righteous Chief Judge until the people could not be governed righteously.
2. He then gave up the rental authority to decor his time to preaching repentance.
3. He not only taught among the Nephites but among the Lamanites as well.
4. When he had preached in the South he then preached in the North until they utterly rejected him.
5. When he returned home having been utterly rejected his first thought was to wish and pray for the people to repent.
6. When that attracted a generally hostile crowd he pressed to them rather than feel that doing so would be casting pearls before swine.
7. When they tried to use his prophecies as a reason to condemn him he continued to invite them to repent.
8. Nephi truly served with unwearyingness and without regard for his temporal safety.