He tells Mormon that when he will be 24 years old, he must to go to the land of Antum and to the hill Shim, where he can find all the plates which Ammaron buried.
There is so much wickedness among the Nephites that Jesus Christ orders a recall of his three glorified disciples, and their work of miraculous healing comes to an end.
When war comes again between the Nephites and Lamanites in AD 327, Mormon is appointed the leader of their armies because he is large in stature, despite being only 16 years old.
Then Mormon's army comes to the land of Joshua and try to make a stand, with the western sea hard by.
Finally it dawns on the Nephites that they cannot keep their own property on account of the robbers and the cursed land, and there arises a great lamentation.
The Nephites are pursued by the Lamanites to the land of Jashon before Mormon can get them to stop and make another stand.
Fourteen years prior, Ammaron told Mormon to dig up only the plates of Nephi and update them with the current doings of the Nephites.
But Mormon has seen nothing but wickedness and abominations around him all his life, so he makes an account of them on the plates of Nephi and they end up in the hill of Cumorah.
Mormon inspires the people at last stand to boldly and fight for their wives and children and hearth and home.
They chase after the Lamanites, beat them again, reclaim their homelands, get them divided, and cease fighting for ten years.
But when that happens, the Lamanites use all their strength, so that the Nephites never win again–prompting Mormon to go to the hill Shim and secure the records.