The coming of Ammon's party from Zarahemla and the account of Mosiah's peaceful reign there, awakened the latent hopes in the breasts of Limhi and his people so that they saw in retrospect the errors they had committed, and resolved not to do them again.
Truly repentant and determined to serve the Lord and keep His commandments, King Limhi and many of his people desired to be baptized. However, there was no one in the Land of Lehi-Nephi who had the "authority from God" to perform the sacred rite. King Limhi's father, King Noah, had replaced the real priests Zeniff had appointed with others who not only were a fraud and a sham, but also who were indeed a wicked lot. Succession in the priesthood among Limhi's subjects was broken when Alma and his people, at the time of King Noah, departed out of Lehi-Nephi.134 Ammon refused to act in this ordinance because he considered himself unworthy so to do.