Radioactive Cows from Livermore meet ET.

This week was nuts. Absolutely crazy! Okay, Elder Baumert got emergency transferred to Livermore and Elder Moesser and I have been placed into a normal companionship once more. We also lost Sister Ferrin to an ET this past week and it’s been crazy. There have been so many crazy things happening. Wow.

 Spiritual: This week we have started teaching a man named Jeet. He is a Nepalian man who found his way to America. He likes it here and believes that God placed us in his path to meet him. He has some very interesting challenges with the gospel. Jeet does not believe in free agency. He does not believe that he has a choice to do anything! It’s the strangest struggle I have seen so far. It’s not one that I thought I would have to do some serious study and prayer about to seek for inspiration to know how to teach him. Jeet believes that everything that he does has already been written and that everything he does has already been decided. It is so hard to teach him. It’s a very Hindu belief. It’s a hard struggle to fight because we believe that if we asked him to be baptized he would immediately say yes. The problem is that he is so in the belief that whatever happens is God’s will that when the next pastor  comes along and tells him it is God’s will that they meet, he will join them. It’s an interesting problem to have. I have realized how grateful I am for the knowledge I have for some of the more "Basic" things in the gospel, from my knowledge of agency that God will let me choose my own path, to the creation that the earth was made for us to enjoy. There are so many wonderful truths that people have to think way too much about and get so confused and loose hope over. God loves us and will let us make mistakes. Oh it is wonderful!

Funny: Last night we visited a less active member who told us about Bikini Island where they tested the nuclear bomb on and how they were using some of the animals there for experiments still here in America. She concluded this long monologue by saying "And do you know where these radioactive cows are?? Livermore." She was so serious it was so funny. 

 Where I am at: After the ET for Elder Baumert and Sister Ferrin we are still trying to get back to a normal way of life here. The weather here is starting to warm up and things are going really well. There have been a lot more crazy investigators here recently and we are still trying to figure out how based in reality you have to be to get baptized. This is a different mission than I was expecting. I love it here so much! Things are going really well and I am happy. 

They took a zone hike up to a waterfall. We found out that he has a lot of girls in his zone. (Funny since he only has one sister who is really mellow, worked at scout camp, and has three brothers. He believes that he will have a lot of daughters someday since he knows how to work with them now. )

They call themselves "Laborers on Vineyard" since they live on Vineyard Ave.