Lehi searched the brass plates from the beginning and found them “desirable,” especially regarding preserving a knowledge of the commandments of God. President Spencer W. Kimball wisely counseled the Saints: “I find that when I get casual in my relationships with divinity and when it seems that no divine ear is listening and no divine voice is speaking, that I am far, far away. If I immerse myself in the scriptures the distance narrows and the spirituality returns” (Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, 135).