When the people of Limhi and the people of Alma came to Zerahemla they did not all have a shared identity. The people of Zerahemla stood in a separate body from the people of Nephi. Mosiah had the history of Limhi and Alma read to everyone which undoubtedly helped them see how they all had common enemies in the Lamanites and the natural man. It doesn’t say that they shared the words of Benjamin but we know those had been shared with Limhi’s people and all the people in the land of Zerahemla had experienced that event. I’m confident that the people of Alma were also told what Benjamin had taught and how his words were received.
The catalyst for binding them as a single people seems to be when the children of the priests of Noah rejected the heritage of their fathers and chose to be known as Nephites. That set a precedent whereby all the returning people shed their separate identities in favor of their shared heritage.
How do we, in our family, shed our distinctions (Noah vs the bullying siblings; youngers vs olders) and forge a shared “us” that pulls us together rather than clinging to competition, put-downs, and “me first” all the time?
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