As Ammon and the king and queen and the servants are all lying on the floor, being overcome by the Spirit, a crowd of people summoned by Abish have gathered, wondering. Everyone has a different theory as to why all these people have been smitten, but one of the robbers, whose brother was killed by Ammon for scattering the flocks, draws his sword and comes to kill Ammon. And he is struck dead.
Alma 19:23 Now we see that Ammon could not be slain, for the aLord had said unto Mosiah, his father: I will spare him, and it shall be unto him according to thy faith—therefore, Mosiah btrusted him unto the Lord.
I find it interesting that the Lord says it is because of Mosiah's faith that Ammon is protected. It probably also related to Ammon's faith, but maybe Ammon wasn't as concerned about his safety as his father was. And Mosiah was probably praying mightily for the safety of his sons.
As we send our children out into the world we have to trust that the Lord will watch over them. Especially as missionaries, our children are under the Lord's protection. But we need to continue to pray and have faith in that protection and in the Lord's promises.
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Oh golly, I'm praying hard for some of my distant children! I sure hope I have enough faith to protect them!
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