When the idea first surfaced to go save the Lamanites, people laughed at the missionaries. Some Nephites even thought, Stop all this nonsensical talk about converting them; let’s kill them and rid the land of their gross wickedness. But the missionaries persisted. They wanted not to destroy but to save—even a few. The Lord had miraculously turned their own lives around; they knew he could do the same for the lost Lamanites.