Alma Ch21

We have somewhat got through Ammon's mission stories and now we are going to hear of the adventures of Aaron and Muloki. They start with the Amalekites trying to teach of Christ and his atonement, but the hearts of the people were very hard and eventually the companions were driven out towards Middoni where they were imprisoned. After they were delivered by Ammon, they were able to preach in some synagogues and had some success.
The town that Aaron came to first was called Jerusalem (yes it was named after Laman and Lemuel's old home), and there were in that city Lamanites, Amalekites, and Amulonites (v1-2). I don't know if you remember the priests of wicked King Noah, but Amulon was one of the leaders and honestly I don't think anyone named Amalek was mentioned so I don't know why they were so hard hearted (v3). Many of the Amulonites and Amalekites were of the order of Nehor (meaning to say of the devil because Nehor was the first to establish evil things in this area) and they started to contend with Aaron when he came to their synagogues to preach (v4-5).
Aaron tried to start with his conversion story but the contender questioned him by suggesting he is putting down the people because they haven't seen an angel, and he continues by saying that Aaron doesn't know if they aren't righteous (v6). They have built places of worship and believe that God will save all, is that not enough? Truthfully it is not, and because the people deny that the Son of God will come to save all mankind, they are needing to be set straight (v7-8). Aaron begins to open his scriptures to prove that Christ will come and teach of the resurrection but they mocked him and did not want to hear what he had to say (v9-10).
He left that area and ran into Muloki a village over and then Ammah who were trying the same things to no avail, so they moved on to Middoni where they had a little success with a few people believing them (v11-12). There were more people in their party than have been mentioned and some ended up being cast into prison there while some fled, and those in prison suffered with patience until Ammon came to rescue them (v13-14). They didn't quit after suffering those things, but instead continued to follow the Spirit where to preach and had success bringing people to the truth (v15-17).
Ammon and Lamoni returned to Ishmael and built many synagogues as partners instead of king and servant, and all this caused them to rejoice because Ammon could teach and preach freely because of what had happened with Lamoni's dad (v18-21). All the people were free to worship how they pleased under the reign of king Lamoni and enjoy the blessings that came from keeping the commandments of God and being righteous (v22-23).