“In My Sixteenth Year I Did Go Forth at the Head of an Army of the Nephites”

W. Cleon Skousen

After the terrible defeat of the Lamanites four years earlier, suddenly Mormon found himself in a virtually impossible situation.

Even though Mormon was barely sixteen, he says he was large of stature and he must have done something to attract public attention because in this crisis he was elected to be the commander of the Nephite military.

Treasures from the Book of Mormon

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