She watched over her husband’s body all night and in the morning he arose, took her hand, and proclaimed, “Blessed be the name of God, and blessed art thou.Then he asked her, “Believest thou this?” and she replied, “I have had no witness save thy word, and the word of our servants: nevertheless I believe that it shall be according as thou hast said.” (Alma 19:9) Ammon was amazed by her faith and exclaimed, “I say unto thee woman, there has not been such great faith among all the people of the Nephites.” (Alma 19: 10) He told her that she should not bury him because he would rise the next day. Ammon examined the body and told her that Lamoni was not dead but “sleepeth in God” (Alma 19:8).She had heard from her servants that Ammon was a great prophet and so she called him in to verify if her husband was dead or not (Alma 19: 1-5) After two days and two nights she was preparing to lay Lamoni in a sepulchre, yet she had doubts if he was really dead.She, along with her daughters and her sons, mourned for the King “after the manner of the Lamanities, greatly lamenting his loss” (Alma 18: 43).His servants were convinced he was dead and so they brought him to his wife where he “lay as if he were dead for the space of two days and two nights”. Lamoni was receptive to the Holy Spirit and was so overcome by it that he fell to the earth.
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Ammon reassured the King that he wasn’t and then taught him about the gospel of Jesus Christ, starting with the creation of the world, the fall of Adam, and eventually teaching him about the plan of redemption and the Atonement ( Alma 18:36-40). After Ammon defended King Lamoni’s flocks by cutting off the arms of the attackers ( Alma 17) he was afraid of him and thought he was the Great Spirit.