And so the testator was dead. But the testament lived on. And faith had come to one by hearing the word of God as preached by a legal administrator.
As recorded by Mormon, some time during Abinadi’s sermon a heart was touched and a witness planted as to the truthfulness of his words; a “young man ... believed the words which Abinadi had spoken.”
And because of the power of the word, the power of a single human testimony, the course of events in the Nephite story would never be the same.