Usually in Mormon's record he shapes the narrative so as to let us know what he thinks of the people he's writing about—and for the most part Mormon tends to paint them as all good or all bad. However, since Mosiah 9-10 quotes directly from Zeniff's records, we get an unusually lengthy window into a character's own thoughts, without Mormon's editorial hand trying to tell us what to think of that person. Since Mormon didn't give us commentary on Zeniff, how about you give it a try? As you read these two chapters, ask yourself if Zeniff is a good guy, a bad guy, or something else. How does he characterize his own intentions and his own successes and failures, and do you agree with his assessments? Why?

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