Suppose that a record of what Bishop Nephi told his people was made and included in the history of the Book of Mormon Stake, of which the Far Distant Ward was a part. It would be unfortunate if subsequent readers of Bishop Nephi's talk, as it was recorded in the records of the Book of Mormon Stake, concluded that it was the sole responsibility of the members of the Far Distant Ward of the Book of Mormon Stake to do ordinances for the dead, and that if the members of that ward did not do those ordinances, no one in the rest of the stake or the Church could be saved.