Jacob 7:24 And it came to pass that many means were devised to reclaim and restore the Lamanites to the knowledge of the truth.
Jacob had a wound. It was like a scab. And Jacob kept scratching and scratching and it kept bleeding and bleeding and bleeding. This wound was Laman and Lemuel.
Jacob had grown up riding the shoulders of Laman and Lemuel and Sam and Nephi. They had taught him to swim in the ocean and dance on the boats and play soccer with a ball of sticks in America. But while Laman and Lemuel would laugh and play with Jacob, they would argue with Nephi. And then sometimes they would fight. And this made Jacob sad and stressed and a little angry. But then the brothers would always say sorry and make up. And the family was whole again and Jacob was happy.
But the fighting got worse. And then one day, no one could say sorry. And eventually, Laman and Lemuel tried to kill Nephi. And that was the end of the family. It broke in half and was never the same again. They moved apart and…
