Purpose of Making Plates Explained

I, Nephi, am not including the genealogy of my forefathers in my record because it’s already engraved on the brass plates. It’s enough to say that we are descendants of Joseph. I don’t have room on these small plates to write everything my father did. I want to save room on them to write the things of God. I want to persuade people to give up their hearts to Christ—the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—and by doing so be saved. What I engrave is not pleasing to worldly people (those whose hearts only want the things of the world), but what I engrave is pleasing to God and to those who are not worldly. I will tell my children, who will continue to engrave this record, only to engrave things of value—things that will persuade their children to come to Christ.