“…she also had complained against my father, telling him that he was a visionary man; saying: Behold thou hast led us forth from the land of our inheritance, and my sons are no more, and we perish in the wilderness.”
Even Sariah was feeling the effects from the loss of the comforts Lehi’s wealth provided them. This reads like: ‘first we have to leave our wealth, and now my sons are dead and we’re going to die too’, as if she were listing her greatest grievances. It’s interesting that amongst her greatest complaints, even used in the same sentence as her sons being dead and her and her husband’s imminent death, is the loss of wealth.
Clearly these experiences had taken some heavy toll on Sariah. However, the insight here is, to some degree, Sariah’s heart was still set upon riches.
However, the return of her sons and the miraculous explanation of how it happened seems to have given her the assurance she needed to become firm in the faith and allowed her to be resolute for the rest of her journeyings. At least we don’t hear about Sariah complaining any more.
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