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When the resurrected Lord Jesus Christ visited the Nephites and instructed them, the 12 disciples whom the Lord had chosen knelt and prayed to the Father in the name of Jesus for "that which they most desired" (see 3 Nephi 19:9).
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Lamanite convert, Abish, played key role in bringing about conversions
Published: Saturday, May 23, 1992Abish is distinguished because she is one of only three women named in the Book of Mormon. One sentence about the Lamanite woman convert is at once informative and cryptic: "she having been...

