Our journey is certainly not over, but rather than write all of the afflictions and difficulty that we suffered, which could fill post after post, I want to tell you about this, our new campsite.
We’ve arrived at a place which we call Irreantum which means many waters. We are actually at the sea. The land around here we call Bountiful because of the abundance of fruit and wild honey. This place was prepared for us by the Lord that we might not perish. As in a previous post I was accused of understating our afflictions, here I could be accused of the same thing when I describe this beautiful land of plenty and mention that we were exceedingly rejoiced. This must be what the Lord has described as the promised land.
We’ve now settled in, pitching our tents by the seashore.
(Book of Mormon | 1 Nephi 17:5 – 6)
