Aaron’s Missionary Labors

Aaron’s Rejection Among the Amalekites in Jerusalem

Alma 21:1–2: Aaron takes his journey to a Lamanite city called Jerusalem, were the two primary cultural groups are the Amalekites and the Amulonites.
Alma 21:3: Amalekites and the Amulonites are among the most hard–hearted people.
Alma 21:4: Aaron starts preaching in the Amalekite synagogues.
Alma 21:5–6: One Amalekite gets up and challenges Aaron’s authority.
Alma 21:7: Aaron asks if he believes that the Son of God will save mankind.
Alma 21:8: The Amalekite denies prophesy and writes off the revelations of the past as foolish tradition.
Alma 21:9: Aaron opens the scriptures and refers to the writings about the coming of Christ.
Alma 21:10: As he explains the scriptures, the Amalekites begin the mock him, and kick him out of the city.
Alma 21:11: Aaron finds his way to a village called Ani–Anti, where he meets his friends Muloki and Ammah.

Alma 21:12–13: Ani–Anti is helplessly beyond repair so Aaron and his friends move to Middoni, where they are thrown into prison.
Alma 21:14: Ammon arrives with Lamoni, and frees them.
Alma 21:15–17: Ammon leaves, and Aaron and his friend continue preaching again, following the Spirit; Many people begin to believe.

Alma 22:1: Aaron and his companions make their way to the land of Nephi, and find the king’s palace.
Alma 22:2–3: They offer to become servants to the king.
Alma 22:3: The king is intrigued by these missionaries and wants to know why Ammon has not come with them.
Alma 22:4: The missionaries tell the king that the Spirit directed Ammon has gone back to Ishmael, to teach Lamoni (his son)’s people.
Alma 22:5–6: The king asks what is meant by “the Spirit”, and asks about the doctrine.
Alma 22:7: Aaron asks him if he believes in God.
Alma 22:7: The king knows that the Amalekites claim to worship a God, but beyond that, knows very little; even so, he is willing to believe.
Alma 22:8: Aaron assures the king that there is a God.
Alma 22:9: The king asks if God is the Great Spirit.
Alma 22:10: Aaron says yes, and that he is the creator of all things.
Alma 22:11: The king believes.
Alma 22:12: Aaron, seeing the open heart of the king, begins teaching from the scriptures.
Alma 22:13–14: Aaron explains the creation, the fall, the plan of redemption, the atonement of Christ, and the resurrection.

Alma 22:15: The king asks what he must do to be born of God, and receive eternal life.
Alma 22:16: Aaron tells him to have faith, repent and pray.
Alma 22:17–18: The king kneels down and prays—he asks to know God, and offers to forsake all his sins.
Alma 22:18: Upon uttering this prayer, the king falls down, apparently dead.
Alma 22:19: The servants run and tell the queen that the king is down; the queen, seeing her prostrate husband and Aaron and his friends standing next to him, orders their execution.
Alma 22:20: The servants, who knew that the missionaries did not attack the king, explain to the queen that they are protected by a supernatural force.
Alma 22:21: The queen, seeing the servants’ apparent fear, orders the citizens to lynch Aaron and his companions.
Alma 22:22: Aaron, fearing unrest among the people, commands the king to stand.
Alma 22:23: The king gets up, converted, and begins converting his household.
Alma 22:24: The mob that had gathered to lynch the missionaries wonder what is going on.
Alma 22:25–26: The king comes out and assures them that they did him no harm, and tells the missionaries to preach to the mob.

Alma 23:1–2: The king sends a proclamation out prohibiting any harmful action against the missionaries.
Alma 23:3: The proclamation allowed the word of God to be spread without obstruction.

Alma 23:4–5: The missionaries go forth and enjoy great success in their continued preaching.
Alma 23:6–7: Many Lamanites come to a knowledge of the truth.
Alma 23:8–12: The citizens of the cities and lands of Ishmael, Middoni, Nephi, Shilom, Shemlon, Lemuel, and Shimnilom are converted.
Alma 23:13: The Lamanite converts put away their weapons of war.
Alma 23:14–15: Only one Amalekite is converted; the rest remain heard–hearted.
Alma 23:16: The king wishes that the converts be given a name to distinguish them.
Alma 23:17–18: They assume the name “Anti–Nephi–Lehies”.

Alma 24:3–4: The king confers the kingdom to his son, and dies.
Alma 24:1–2: The Amalekites and Amulonites, angry with the converts, prepare for war against them.
Alma 24:5: Aaron and his companions, sensing the imminent military strike, go to the land of Midian, where they meet Ammon.