“The people who followed Alma were in bondage to wicked oppressors. When they prayed for relief, the Lord told them He would deliver them eventually, but in the meantime He would ease their burdens ‘that even you cannot feel them upon your backs, even while you are in bondage; and this will I do that ye may stand as witnesses … that I, the Lord God, do visit my people in their afflictions’ (Mosiah 24:14). In that case the people did not have their burdens removed, but the Lord strengthened them so that ‘they could bear up their burdens with ease’ (v. 15)” (Oaks, “He Heals the Heavy Laden,” 8).