Even though there were overtones of frustration at the end of Helaman’s letter, the majority of the letter was tremendous news, and would have had for the war-weary Nephites even greater impact that those stories do for us. We find inspiration in the stripling warriors, and they surely found the same, but intensified by the closeness of the situation. Jershon was the home of the Ammonites, and Jershon lay in the quarter of the land that Moroni was defending. Surely a messenger had been sent to Jershon to inform the anxious parents of the miraculous performance of their sons.