Joseph Smith received from the angel Moroni, so in this chapter I will tell you very br

und in many places in America, showing that at one time there were people here more civ

ness of the city, it would soon be destroyed, and if he wished to be saved he must take his family and travel into the wilderness. This Lehi did. They went south-eastward until they got to the sea where they built a s

ast landed on the west coast of South

mes they brought trouble to the little company. They also treated their younger brother,

sfied and again began making trouble. The Lord then told Nephi to take all who would li

anites. The Nephites built houses, planted fields, and lived as civilized people, and the Lord often revealed his will to them through prophet

, because the Lord blessed them so much: yet they often did wrong. The Lord would prosper them until they became rich; then they would become proud a

e and occupied the greater pa

rted to the Lord, and when they once accepted the truth, they did not fall away so easily as their Nephite brethren. At one time two thousand young men whose parents were converted Lamanites did

osiah, who was their leader then to take the more faithful part of the people and again go northward. This they did, and found a city called Zarahemla which had been built by a people wh

a small part in the north, on which the Nephites lived. T

same gospel that he had taught in Palestine and chose twelve disciples to preach and build up his church. For nearly two hundred years the people all belonged to the Church of Christ, and peace was over all the land. Then they became wicked again. The Lamanites kept driving the Nephites further north, until they reached what is now the United States. Around a hill

great battle, a prophet by the name of Mormon had all the records. He wrote a short account from them called an abridgment. What he took from each man's record he called after the writer's name, as the Book of Alma, Book of Helaman, etc., which we might call names of chapters

ople destroyed he hid all th

regarding the Book of Mormon. 2. The Laman

leave Jerusalem? 6. Why did Lehi want the records of his forefathers? 7. Who were the Lamanites? 8. Describe them. 9. Tell about the Nephites. 10. In what land did these people live? 11. Why