Ammon's Namesake

one of our our members here um he wanted me to ask you he sent me a story about uh the name Ammon is a it's in some Mormon religious stories is that correct yeah it's in the book of Mormon could you could it's in the bible too though could you share the the story and and did that have any influence on how you felt about yourself growing up? I don't think it really had any influence. Maybe. I mean, maybe, you know, you never, I never know how much, but I did get the name from my grandfather. His middle name was Ammon. And my middle name is Edward, which my grandfather on my mother's side, his name was Edward. So my names both came from my, my grandfathers. But Ammon was a, basically a missionary that went to kind of the enemies of the Nephites. They're called the Lamanites. And he went to them because he had been converted to the Lord.

He had had an experience where he was a pretty wicked person, even probably evil. And he had an experience that changed his heart. And then he wanted to convert basically the enemies of his people. so he went to them and uh very interesting because the the first thing he did he was captured by them and then the king wanted to put him in prison but he kind of ended up talking to the king and the king ended up liking him and so he made him a servant and said Ammon was like well just let me be your servant so he was over these the flocks and the enemies of the king would come down and to try to steal the flocks and basically make a long story short he defended the flocks and he ended up killing several of the the enemies of the king he cut off a bunch of their arms and then the king thought king and his men thought somehow he must be this great power like this god and he was very humble about it but it basically opened the door for him to teach the gospel of Jesus Christ to all the and convert and he converted the you know thousands of thousands of the Lamanites so that's kind of the story of the missionary Ammon in the Book of Mormon yeah I don't see any resemblance at all I don't know