If the seeds from Jerusalem “did grow exceedingly” (1 Nephi 18:24), should we expect evidence of every type of seed planted to be in existence today all along the west coast of Mesoamerica? According to John Sorenson, while in that first coastal landing area, the immigrant colony planted seeds they had brought from Jerusalem. These flourished, but what happened to them later? The experience of pioneers suggests that first success for an imported crop does not necessarily mean its continued vigor. Flourishing plants don’t always yield good seed in turn. Bishop Diego de Landa in sixteenth century Yucatan used language very similar to Nephi’s: “We have set them [the Indians] to raising [European] millet and it grows marvelously well and is a good kind of sustenance.” Yet nearly four centuries later, when Carnegie Institute botanists researched the plant inventory in that area, they failed to find a trace of the millet about which Landa had been so enthusiastic. [John Sorenson, An Ancient American Setting for the Book of Mormon, F.A.R.M.S., p. 139]