Preserving Records

Mormon 6:6

"And it came to pass that when we had gathered in all our people in one land to the land of Cumorah, behold I, Mormon, began to be old; and knowing it to be the last struggle of my people, and having been commanded of the Lord that I should not suffer the records which had been handed down by our fathers, which were sacred, to fall into the hands of the Lamanites, (for the Lamanites would destroy them) therefore I made this record out of the plates of Nephi, and hid up in the hill Cumorah all the records which had been entrusted to me by the hand of the Lord, save it were these few plates which I gave unto my son Moroni."

Mormon knows that this is the end, and he is concerned about the records. He knows how much sacrifice and work went forth to make these records, and he knows how valuable the writings are. He hides them in the hill Cumorah so the Lamanites would not destroy them, and you know what? They were preserved for a long time! They came forth again in the 1800s and we now have the translated records in The Book of Mormon! What a miraculous blessing.