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[GENTLE HARP MUSIC PLAYING]

I feel our people need you.

They look unto me as though I could deliver them from their afflictions.

Mormon,

you have always loved them.

And I know…

I know that you would die for them.

I did go forth among the Nephites,

and did repent of the oath which I had made that I would no more assist them.

But I was without hope, for I knew the judgments of the Lord which should come upon them.

For they repented not of their iniquities,

but did struggle for their lives without calling upon that Being who created them.

And knowing that a knowledge of these things must come unto

the remnant of these people, I write a small abridgment.

Now these things are written unto the remnant of the house of Jacob

and they are to be hid up unto the Lord that they may come forth in his own due time.

And they shall go unto the unbelieving that they may be persuaded that Jesus is

the Christ, the Son of the living God;

that the Father may bring about, through his most Beloved,

his great and eternal purpose,

in restoring all the house of Israel unto the fulfilling of his covenant.

And also that the seed of this people may more fully believe his gospel.

And after I had made an abridgement from the plates of Nephi, I searched among the records and I found these plates. I, Nephi, having been born of goodly parents.

Therefore, I make a record of my proceedings. And I know that the record which I make is true.

I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded,

for I know that the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish

the thing which he commandeth them.

Now I know of a surety that the Lord hath commanded my husband to flee into the wilderness. Yea, and I also know of a surety that the Lord hath protected my sons.

He cometh into the world that he may save all men if they will hearken unto his voice.

Reconcile yourselves to the will of God,

and not to the will of the devil and the flesh; and remember,

after ye are reconciled unto God,

that it is only in and through the grace of God that ye are saved.

And the things which are upon these plates please me,

because of the prophecies of the coming of Christ.

And I shall take these plates and put them with the remainder of my record.

And I do this for a wise purpose; for thus it whispereth me,

according to the workings of the Spirit of the Lord which is in me.

And now, I do not know all things;

but the Lord knoweth all things which are to come; wherefore, he worketh in me to do according to his will.

Mormon Abridges the Records and Leads the Nephites

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Mormon again leads to deliver his people and they repented not. They struggle, Mormon records his small abridgement and combines his record with the engravings of Nephi to restore the House of Israel.
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