Friday, February 14, 2003

A little detail I never noticed today, that I did... When Alma meets Ammon when traveling to the land of Manti, because Ammon and the converted Lamanites are fleeing their brethren, Alma goes back with Ammon to the people of Ammon and in meeting with them, he tells them his conversion story. Just a fun little detail, I can imagine Ammon being terrified that he's leading his people to death among the Nephites, because here comes a horde of Lamanites and having known the Nephite stereotypes and terrible hatred of all things Lamanite (as evidenced by what the Nephites told the sons of Ammon when they left to go on their mission to the Lamanites), he probably feared that the Nephites would shun the Lamanites, not trust them, mistake them for an army, and so in this state of uncertainty and fleeing from the brutal Amalekites who openly sought their destruction, Ammon is wandering into the land of the Nephites, and who should he come across but ALMA his good friend and fellow convert. The very friend who was with the sons of Mosiah when they were all converted to the Lord. What a wonderful coincidence... as if it were solely a coincidence...--Ray

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