By small things

I took participate note of the fact that the message from the Nephites spies caused the Lamanite prisoners to revolt which actually served to preserve Helaman and his men.

I also realized for the first time that the reason Helaman wrote to Moroni was because of the lack of support from the government. Seeing that lack of support Helaman wanted to investigate. He was prepared for the possibility that Moroni might be needing all the available resources but if not he wanted to make sure that Moroni knew what was going on. By asking the question they eventually uncovered the subversion that their government was plagued by.