Alma 15:18 Alma having seen all these things, therefore he took Amulek and came over to the land of Zarahemla, and took him to his own house, and did administer unto him in his tribulations, and strengthened him in the Lord.
We have spent some time talking about Alma’s life. There were certainly some sad moments, but you might think we are past all that now because he went out on a mission to teach people about Jesus. And the people in Zarahemla listened and things got better, and so the rest of his life will be hopeful and happy. But that is not true.
The story we are about to tell is about another city that did not listen to Alma. And this is one of the saddest parts of Alma’s sad life. But we are going to tell it because when life gets really sad, something happens to people. They break. They break like a shelled nut. Either they crumble to pieces and the nut and the shell get all mixed together and it is almost impossible to tell which is which, or else they crack wide open, reveali…
