Nephi’s Writing Purpose
I, Nephi, will not write my family history in this part of my record. I will never write it on these plates I am writing. My father already wrote it in his record. So I don’t need to write it in this book. It’s enough for me to say that we come from Joseph’s family. It doesn’t matter to me to tell everything about my father. I can’t write it all on these plates because I need space. I want to write about God’s things.
My complete goal is to help people come to the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and be saved. So I don’t write things that make the world happy. Instead, I write things that make God happy and that help people who follow God. So I will tell my children not to use these plates for things that aren’t helpful to people.