Textual: Mormon continues to discuss the missionary endeavors of the sons of Mosiah, but he now shifts his editorial style from the inserted sermons to a more historical overview. We have seen that he has already begun to abbreviate parts of the sermons where they covered topics he had already included, and we may surmise that the discourses involved in the events described in this section would have covered much of the same ground. Mormon’s intent here is not to provide the doctrine, but to supply an important piece of history. This section is related so that we have the story of the Ant-Lehi-Nephies.