- Three days later, Ammon is charged with tending Lamoni’s flocks at a watering spot called Sebus.
- On the way to the watering spot, Ammon runs into some other Lamanites who had been watering their flocks; they maliciously scatter Lamoni’s flocks.
- Scattering flocks was a common practice among competing Lamanite groups; it was means of obtaining the resources of the others.
- Ammon’s co–servants begin crying over the scattered flocks.
- Prior to this, other servants had been sentenced to death for allowing flocks to be scattered.
- Ammon, seeing an opportunity to gain trust and respect, gets very excited.
- Ammon encourages the other servants to join him in rounding up the flocks.
- Ammon and the servants gather all the flocks.
- The hostiles who scattered the flock initially return; Ammon tells the servants to encircle the flocks as he goes to confront them.
- Ammon steps up to the hostile band of Lamanites.
- The hostile Lamanites, unaware of Ammon’s divine commission, are not afraid.
- Ammon begins attacking, and strikes a few of the hostiles with his sling; the survivors charge at him in retaliation.
- As the gang members approach Ammon to hit him, he slices off their arms; the hostiles run away in fear after seeing this.
- Six hostiles are knocked out with the sling, their leader is killed with a sword, and many dismembered arms remain.
- With the conflict over, Ammon brings the king’s flocks back to the pastures, carrying the severed arms of the attackers.