“I was reading again the twenty-sixth chapter of Alma and the story of Ammon’s mission. I read out loud, as I sometimes do, trying to put myself in the position of the characters in the book. … The Spirit spoke to my soul, saying, Did you notice? Everything that happened to Ammon happened to you. … And then on that day as I read, the Spirit testified to me again. … No one but a missionary could have written this story. Joseph Smith could never have known what it was like to be a missionary to the Lamanites, for no one he knew had ever done such a thing before” (Howard, “Ammon,” 124–25).