The other day we were told about a shepherding event that’s been going on for 50 years. It’s called the “Trailing of the Sheep” festival, and it runs for a week in October through beautiful Sun Valley, Idaho. They’ve been running sheep through there for over 125 years.

What a great chance to learn about pastoring by studying shepherds. I wanted to check it out. What kind of events did they have? Maybe I’d find a program online. As I browsed their website, I came across their pledge to follow all CDC guidelines and masking and distancing rules. It was a whole page dedicated to it, publicly declaring they would carry the baton for this entire narrative. I was disappointed.

In Hawaii, that’s normal, but people aren’t generally going along with that stuff in Idaho. You see, very few wear masks here and there, and they’re one of the least vaccinated states. It’s incredibly freeing to see humanity as God made us and not muzzled with masks. That’s why it frustrates me to see those who do volunteer to wear them even when stores don’t even require them. I want to shake them and ask if they know what’s coming. Australia is coming. Communism is coming. A prison state is coming. But they’re the ones who have fully bought in. They won’t listen. They are the true believers in this covid cult.

For some odd reason, I feel compelled to confront things like that. I find that I want to talk to people about it. I will bring it up to strangers or try to leave hints like, “Did you ever think about covid being on the shopping cart handle? Or the gas pump handle? Or the entry handle on the Starbucks you go to?” I often dream of handing out fliers in the parking lots challenging people to think for themselves, but alas, my sabbatical would just be plowing in another field. So I only fantasize about it. Besides, would it do any good?

So this is why I try to push back on these things. Every little acquiescence is yielding to tyranny. Every freedom we lose, we will not gain back. A year ago in Hawaii, I said that we would never go back to being mask-free unless there was a revolution.

Well, the shepherds were holding an event, and I wanted to go. But I wasn’t going to drive 5 hours to wear a mask everywhere. Plus, on their site, they spoke of a monument called “the good shepherd.” I figured if they knew of the good shepherd, they were believers. Why were they following the devil's narrative? I was angrier that shepherds wouldn’t know any better, as if they knew something about pastoring. How did I know their position, but somehow I got this feeling I should say something.

I wrote them this short note from my bed in the morning. I will add their reply below my note and then my answer after that. I hope you enjoy the dialogue or at least find it strengthening your faith.

Our family has heard so many good things about your festival and were hoping to attend this year. I was grieved, however, to see that you have embraced the continual misleading of the covid mandates as prescribed by our nation’s grossly compromised CDC.

The promotion of masks, social distancing, and the deadly vaccine, though trendy, is a devastating step toward socialism, and it is happening all over the globe. Look at what is happening in Australia (if unhindered by censorship) and ask yourself if you should follow and shepherd others in the same narrative that beats and imprisons people in that country and others. It is, after all, the same narrative, and its end is not freedom nor the American way.

It is the global narrative of the ‘great reset’ put in place by the same billionaires of the World Economic Forum who recently met at Sun Valley. Whether they meet here or in Davos, Switzerland, they have stated clearly, especially through their founder, Klaus Schwab, that they seek to enslave the planet under the guise of a great reset and ‘building back better.’ Even a mustard seed of discernment will enable a person to identify their agenda.

Do not be led by fear mongers, and do not lead others in that same spirit of fear which is not from God.

Of all people in our country, Idahoans should clearly see the deep state's work in bed with big pharma. The nation is under attack from within, and your acquiescence to these arbitrary, capricious, dehumanizing mandates further degrades our freedoms. Please, for the love of God, do not follow their garbage. Celebrate the beautiful heritage of the trailing of the sheep without the emblems of the new world order. Preserve your dignity and freedom even at the cost of naysayers.

Please do not consider my humble email as chastisement or complaint, but rather a plea for your own freedom and future. I write this from a place of genuine love for you and all who attend. While you freely celebrate the festival this year, please do some research and awaken to the reality that has designs on those same freedoms. Once they are gone, they will not return easily or without a fresh sprinkling of the tree of Liberty. Unshackle yourselves and your attendees from these lies, and may God bless you as you do so.

Aloha,
Bud Stonebraker