April 12 - Two More Half Dead

yesterday while we were pitching hay to some cows Bishop Harris's dad, Mcgee, motioned for me to come to the front of the tractor. He pointed down to a calf that wasn't moving. i went over to the little guy and picked his head up. I yelled he's still alive but barely. He had me put him on the the trailer. Five minutes later same thing different calf, not as bad though, he was able to hold his head up. So we took them back to the barn and Bishop asked whats wrong with them. Mcgee said "scours" which i guess is th equivilant of diarrhea. so i got to say with bishop the rest of the day while pickett kept pitching hay with mcgee. i got to play nurse while bishop was trying to put an I.v in there jugular, i think they'll be ok now that why have fluids in them and a quart of milk replacement in them. after we finished with those two there was a mother that was getting ready to calf so we had to put her in the barn in one of the stalls. it took bishop, his brother mark, and I 15min to move her from the corral to the barn which is only 20ft away. she wasn't having it. after we got her in a stall we had to figure a way to get her head in the shoot. man was she mad she kept hitting the door to the stall and butting the side of it. Mark took a rope and put it around her neck and through it to me and i threaded it through the shoot and then all three of us pulled trying to get her head through. Mcgee came in and walked by the shoot and she ran at him and got her head stuck in the shoot. he made it look easy, or the cow just really hates him. after that mark went in to do the dirty work, unfortunately the calf's leg was turned the wrong way and wasn't going to come out. called the vet he came over and gave the mom a shot to relax her then they got this contraption called a "puller" and wrapped a chain around the calf's legs and started pulling him out. he ended up being still born. Mark said from all the stress the calf drowned in the birthing fluid. but we did find out that the vet was catholic so we have to figure out a way to get him back out there so we can talk to him. but i did start the book of Mormon over again. this time i decided that I'd read in chronological order so im in ether. in ether 2: 23 i really like what the lord said to the brother of jared: "And the Lord said unto the brother of Jared: What will ye that I should do that ye may have light in your vessels?"the brother of jared was asking the lord what he should do and the lord pretty much said i gave you a brain you figure it out. i put beside that D+c 9:7-8: "Behold, you have not understood; you have supposed that I would give it unto you, when you took no thought save it was to ask me. But, behold, I say unto you, that you must astudy it out in your bmind; then you must cask me if it be right, and if it is right I will cause that your dbosom shall eburn within you; therefore, you shall ffeel that it is right." sometimes the lord makes us "study it out" and then ask him. when investigators say i haven't gotten my answer whats wrong, i read that scripture in doctrine and covenants. our baptism this week went flawless. Ashley had alot of people there for her. we had our first new member discussion with her sunday and asked her how the holy ghost has helped her since she received it. she said that it had kept her from saying or doing something she wasn't supposed to. she said like when she wants to yell at her brother she thinks about it and feels like she shouldn't. her brother and her best friend megan aren't members either she's supposed to be inviting them to her lesson next Sunday. thanks love you all-- Elder Tyler Herring4380 So. Orchard AveSouth Ogden, UT 84403