Mormon does not provide us with very much information concerning his boyhood, but the scanty details he does provide indicate:- He was born probably in A.D. 310 or 311. (He was about ten years of age inA.D. 321—see 4 Nephi 48 and Mormon 1:2.)
- He was a descendant of Nephi. (Mormon 1:5.)
- His father’s name was Mormon, and he was named after the land of Mormon. (Mormon 1:5 and 3 Nephi 5:12.)
- He was evidently born in the land northward. (Mormon 1:2, 6.)
- At the age of fifteen he was ‘visited of the Lord.’ (Mormon 1:15.)
- Despite his testimony of the divinity of Christ, he was ‘forbidden’ to preach repentance unto the wicked people. (Mormon 1:16.)
- In his ‘sixteenth year’ he was appointed leader of the Nephite armies, and he and his armies defended the Nephites from the Lamanites. (Mormon 2:2.).
(Daniel H. Ludlow, A Companion to Your Study of the Book of Mormon, p. 298)
