Continuing from last week, in Chapter 18, one of the church leaders under king Noah’s reign, whose name was Alma as I mentioned before, repented of the evil he had participated in and began to share the teachings of Abinadi – very carefully, very secretly – with the common people. By virtue of his previous authority, Alma ordained priests and organized a new church with a few hundred followers. They lived virtuously, “imparting to one another both temporally and spiritually according to their needs and their wants,” and held their secretive gatherings in the outskirts of Nephite territory. But eventually the king discovered what they were up to. With the king’s troops in pursuit, Alma’s people fled into the wilderness.