Even though Nephi’s prayer for the lifting of the famine was accepted, the process by which the famine was abated was a natural one. The rain fell and the crops grew. There was no miracle manna. There was rain in season. We do not know how long it took for the rain to fall. We know that in verse six it was the seventy fifth year, and rain falls in the seventy sixth. The text makes it appear that the prayer occurs in the seventy fifth year, with the rain coming in the next season. In any case, the resolution of the famine came through natural means, even though it was God who was behind nature.