The charge to the missionaries is to establish the “word” of the Lord among the Lamanites. Salvation will come to these their wayward brothers only by compliance with the same principles by which it has come to the Nephites. There is but one standard, and all must rise to it.Nevertheless, the Lord is more patient with some than with others.
The standard will not and cannot change, but because of their spiritually impoverished condition the Lord will allow the Lamanites more time to grow up to that standard. The missionaries must learn patience and long-suffering with their contacts and must bear persecution and hardship in that same spirit.