Helaman Ch4

Warning, this is a very depressing chapter because of the wickedness of the Nephites causing them to lose to the some battles against the Lamanites. This also causes the church to dwindle and the people to become weak like the Lamanites. I liked the yearly timeline idea from last time, and this chapter has about 8 years passing so I'm going to break it up by year again.
54-55: There are a lot of contentions going on both within the church and without that caused fights to the point of bloodshed where rebellious people were driven out to live with the Lamanites (v1-2). As they were living there, they just stirred up the Lamanites trying to get them to fight, but they couldn't because they were a little scared from their previous encounters (v3).
56-59: The Lamanites are convinced to start to prepare for battle and begin to attack in the 57th year and eventually take over the land of Zarahemla in the 58th year (v4-5). Moronihah and the armies were driven into the land Bountiful and started fortifying, but the dissenters of the Nephites were successful in their taking over of the land and possessions of the Nephites (v6-8).
60-61: I guess after the awesome retelling of every specific battle and strategy of the war in which Captain Moroni was leading the army it isn't as exciting to tell Moronihah's work because Mormon explains in only two verses that the Nephites take back half of what the Lamanites had won in two years (v9-10). It probably was a little more depressing so not as nice to recount because of the great loss of the Nephites due to their wickedness among them starting with pride within the members of the church and ending in so much more awful sins (v11-13). Moronihah preached unto the people, as well as Nephi and Lehi, about their imminent demise if they did not repent, and it totally worked because the people repented and began to prosper again (v14-16).
62: There was no progress in obtaining the land or possessions back from the Lamanites in this year which caused them to sort of give up and be scared about being destroyed (v17-20). This situation reminded them of the words of Alma and Mosiah about their stiffneckedness and how it would cause corruption in the church and the people to become spiritually weak as the Lamanites (v21-24). The words that had been taught were promises that if the people would keep the commandments they would be preserved, but because the people were not, they had fallen into great transgression (v25-26).