Women in the Scriptures Challenge : Wives and Daughters of the 5,400 Nephites Who Migrated Northward

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Wives and Daughters of the 5,400 Nephites Who Migrated Northward

Alma 63:4-10

4 - "and it came to pass that in the thirty and seventh year of the reign of the judges, the re was a large company of men, even to the amount of five thousand and four hundred men, with their wives and their children, departed out of the land of Zarahemla into the land which was northward."

I have to admit that it was nice to read something else besides hatred and bloodshed. After years of terrible and heartbreaking war between the Lamanites and the Nephites, finally some peace. I wonder if people were excited and even anxious to get out of there current situation in Zarahemla. Sometimes a change of scenery and a fresh start can be good. Maybe this is what I would have wanted. I probably would have jumped at the chance to explore new lands. 

I do wonder how people were chosen to leave? Did they volunteer? Did they pick specific people to be leaders? Where did they go? What happened to them?

President David O McKay in his dedicatory prayer for the Hamilton, New Zealand Temple said,  "We express gratitude that to these fertile Islands Thou didst guide descendants of Father Lehi, and hast enabled them to prosper."
and Spencer W. Kimball said, "It is reasonable to conclude that Hagoth and his associates were about nineteen centuries on the islands, from about 55 BC to 1854 before the gospel began to reach them. They had lost all the plain and precious things which the Savior brought to the earth, for they were likely on the islands when the Christ was born in Jerusalem."

I am really quite interested in learning more about these people, and will be doing more research when I have more time 

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these are my own thoughts and opinions 

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