Ether and Moroni : Kindred Spirits

I am impressed with the fact that Moroni was able to have an example and empathetic friend from the scriptures as he read and abridged the life of Ether. They both had very similar life missions as they were each the last living faithful member of the Church and watched all those around them be killed because of their choices not to repent. Ether says :"Whether the Lord will that I be translated, or that I suffer the will of the. Lord in the flesh, it mattereth not, if it so be that I am saved in the kingdom of God. Amen."(Ether 15:34). I am sure Moroni received great comfort and had very similar thoughts and desires as he faced his own challenge of living without fellow faithful Saints.