#50 去蕪存菁 qùwúcúnjīng (The wheat from the tares)

Hello everyone! Well another week has come and gone and truthfully my mission is starting to fly by. It is kind of crazy how fast the time goes while you are working hard and having fun, as you may be able to tell from the title, we have spent a lot of time this week considering who in our teaching pool is progressing and who is not, it has led to some cool miracles so far and the lord always blesses us when we do hard things. 

I would like to share a little analogy made out of a story in 3 Nephi 4 (verses 18-20, for those curious). In these verses we read about The Gadianton robbers and the Nephites. The robbers attempt to siege the Nephites by cutting off their food supply, but the Nephites built up food storage and they outlast the siege until the Robbers back off due to their own starvation. The story we learn from the Nephites is that we need to have our own spiritual supplies and stockpiles for when the robbers knock on our doors, and when temptations and sins try and cut us off from spiritual promptings. So I would encourage you all to find ways to build those spiritual supplies.

One funny thing from this week: on Sunday no one had signed up to feed us for dinner until one of our members volunteered to feed us while we were at church. He did warn us however that his wife wasn't around so we were not sure what dinner would look like, so we showed up and had a very good breakfast for dinner. It was delicious despite being hastily put together. 

I hope you all have a miracle filled week!

Elder Larson

Pictures!

1. Bishops peak!

2. The Paso District!