Ammaron charges Mormon with the standard charge concerning the plates. He is to take them and write “things that ye have observed concerning this people.” This is not a charge to make the text that we know as the book of Mormon. It is, rather, explicitly to write “on the plates of Nephi.” The early experience of Mormon as chronicler is of his own people and time. We do not learn of Mormon’s inspiration to write for future generations until Mormon 5:9.