Ammon’s reference to the Lord commanding the sons of Mosiah and their companions to go among the Lamanites and promising them success (v. 27) was referred to earlier (see Alma 17:11). Their being patient in long-suffering and afflictions was listed as the third principle of being a successful missionary in chapter 7. Ammon again bears testimony of this principle working among the Lamanites (vv. 28–30). These testimonies are important for missionaries today to help them realize that missionary work is not easy. The enduring of afflictions is made easy because of the love that is developed between the missionaries and the people to whom they are sent to teach (v. 31). There is also a love developed in the hearts of those converted unto the Lord for their fellow man. They desire for others to feel the love of God that they have felt. Ammon says there had never been such “great love in all the land” (v. 32). He bears testimony, as he had before, or as Mormon had in his abridgment (Alma 24:22), of his knowing that those who had sacrificed their lives for their love of God and their hatred of sin had gone to their God, or attained their salvation (Alma 26:34). Such assurance was born of the Spirit.