Alma Ch22

Now we are going to learn about how Lamoni's father was taught the gospel and the reaction his household has to all of the teachings. After that story we are told how the land is divided between the Lamanites and Nephites.
We step back into the story of Aaron and company as they leave Middoni to visit the king over all the land, AKA Lamoni's father (v1). Aaron goes into the king and says he is grateful to him for saving their lives, and they wish to be his servants. The king actually refuses this and instead wants the group to administer unto him because of his troubled mind since his dealings with Ammon, but more specifically why he isn't with this group of missionaries (v2-3). Aaron explains that the Spirit of the Lord requires Ammon in Ismael, and this peaks the king's interest from what Ammon had said when they met before because he still remembers Ammon speaking of repentance and being saved in the last day (v4-6).
Aaron begins the teachings of these spiritual things similar to the way Ammon had to Lamoni, by asking if he believes there is a God. What is interesting to me is that he never says he has believed in the past but he has allowed others to believe and will at least go along with it if Aaron says so (v7). Aaron says God is real so the king wants to know more, and he connects God to the Great Spirit that brought Lehi out of Jerusalem so long ago meaning that the Great Spirit created all things (v8-11). Knowing that the king was ready and willing to believe his teachings, Aaron started teaching from the scriptures about the creation, plan of redemption, and Christ who atones for all sins to break the bands of death (v12-14).
The king soaks up all this information that Aaron provides and wants to know what he can do to have eternal life and replace the wicked spirit in his life with God (v15). The king does as Aaron tells him and bows down before God and repents of all his sins in faith with pure intent to give away his sins, and guess what happens, he faints just like his son had (v16-18). This happened that was the same, but the reaction of his wife was very different because she became angry with the missionaries and commanded the servants to slay them (v19).
Now those servants knew why the king looked dead, and that these missionaries were men of God and refuses out of fear which makes the queen a little scared so she is going to try to get some of her subjects to do it for her (v20-21). Before people came from her sending out word, Aaron stopped this nonsense by raising the king from his sleep so everyone could witness how he was alright, and just like Lamoni had done, he starts preaching about what he had learned (v22-23). The group that had gathered at the queens call were all ready to hear the administering words from the king and the rest of the house hold that was converted, and then the words of the missionaries who preached the word of God to them (v24-26).
The king sends out a proclamation to all his subjects across the boarders of his land...and we will read what is proclaimed in the next chapter, but for now we get to see some geography of the Lamanite and Nephite lands. I don't know the actual facts on where everything is because I am a very visual person in that sense, but I'll describe this the best I can. There are seas on the east and west and then a narrow strip of wilderness dividing the Lamanites from the land of Zarahemla on the north with the river Sidon separating them (v27). There is wilderness on the west that most of the idle Lamanites lived, but another group on the east seashore where the Nephites had driven them (v28-29).
 The Nephites had Lamanites on most of their sides but possessed the Northern lands all the way up to a place called Desolation because of the many remnants of bones found there (v30). To the south was Bountiful because of all the wild animals and the plentiful food available (v31). Altogether they were kind of on an island except for two narrow necks of land, one leading north and one leading south with Nephites mostly in the north and Lamanites in the south (v32-33). The Nephites were pretty good at keeping their lands through good defense and armies the lands stayed divided like so (v34). Now that you know that, we will hear the proclamation in the next chapter (v35).