Garden Block

I couldn’t remember if I posted this before or not. It was part of a conference talk from last October by Elder D. Todd Christofferson. “The story is told of a man who simply would not work. He wanted to be taken care of in every need. To his way of thinking, the Church or the government (or both) owed him a living. He had nothing to eat but refused to work to care for himself. Out of desperation and disgust, those who had tried to help him decided that since he would not lift a finger to sustain himself they might as well just take him to the cemetery and let him pass on. On the way to the cemetery one man said, ‘We can’t do this. I have some corn I’ll give him.’ They explained this to the man, and he asked, ‘Have the husks been removed?’ ‘No.’ ‘Well then,’ he said, ‘Drive on.’