Alma 8 begins an account of Alma’s ministry in the city of Ammonihah, where full-scale apostasy and wickedness reigned. Despite the general wickedness of the people in Ammonihah, Alma found some success with the conversion of Amulek, Zeezrom, and others. The account of Alma’s ministry in Ammonihah, found in Alma 8–16, illustrates the courage and greatness of the servants of God and the hardness that comes upon a people who willfully rebel against God.