Helaman - assuming the best about people

Helaman writes several chapters explaining to Moroni about the Stripling Warriors and the battles going on in one part of the land. At the end of his writing he notes that they don't have as many provisions or people as they should have. However, he doesn't jump to a negative conclusion; instead he assumes there must be a logical explanation for what's happened. It's a good example for us. Here's some verses:

 34 Now we do not know the ^acause that the government does not grant us more strength; neither do those men who came up unto us know why we have not received greater strength.

 35 Behold, we do not know but what ^aye are unsuccessful, and ye have drawn away the forces into that quarter of the land; if so, we do not desire to murmur.

 36 And if it is not so, behold, we fear that there is some ^afaction in the government, that they do not send more men to our assistance; for we know that they are more numerous than that which they have sent.

He doesn't want to complain in case Moroni is in a worse situation. He assumes there's a fight in the government, not that they are being lazy or neglecting their duty (and he was right).

Good example for us.