Alma and Amulek

We don’t have a whole lot of details about what Amulek and Zeezrom did after they left Ammonihah and Zeezrom was healed.  I have to wonder, though, if the two did not become great friends and companions.  We know that both of them most likely lost all of their family since the righteous women and children were destroyed by the wicked people of Ammonihah, and the rest of the people were subsequently destroyed by the Lamanites.  We know that after Zeezrom was healed, “he began from that time forth to preach unto the people” (Alma 15:12).  Similarly, “Alma and Amulek went forth preaching repentance to the people” and did “preach the word throughout all the land” (Alma 16:15).  About seven years after Zeezrom was healed by Alma and Amulek, Alma choose the two of them to go with him to preach to the Zoramites. We read that he took “also Amulek and Zeezrom, who were at Melek,” and that latter phrase seems to imply that they were together at Melek (Alma 31:6).  I have to think that they were great friends, missionary companions, and brothers in the gospel whose experiences at Ammonihah and Sidom ultimately brought them—former enemies—together.  I think this is such a great story because it was the gospel that changed both of them; you never would have guessed that these two would serve as missionaries together upon reading their exchange in Alma 11.  Zeezrom tried to trap Amulek in his words in front of the people, and Amulek called Zeezrom a “child of hell” (Alma 11:23).  But the Spirit changed the heart of Zeezrom and ultimately brought them together in repentance and service to the Lord.