Aug 5, 2013

BATISMOS!!!

YEP! it finally happened. =)

 

SO!!! time for the story to commence. last week we were talking with a couple of the ward members after church. and it was kinda strange cause we had one of the youth from the ward just kinda sitting against the wall waiting to talk with us. we get our lunch schedule for the week and strike up a conversation with her.

THEN!!! she tells us that she was never actually baptized. she´s been attending church for two years now. is acutally enganged to one of the members. (yes people get married really young here. she´s 16.) this was incredible because me and elder leonan have been praying and fasting for someone who is interested in this gospel enough to get baptized.

so during the week we set up for the baptism and did talked with her for a couple days deterining whether or not she needs to be taught anything before the baptism. she knew everything quite well. it was incredible. so we set up an interview and she was so prepared. she answered all the questions perfectly and was way excited when we told here that we could baptize her the following saturday. (2 days ago.) so we did.

however preparing for the baptism was a joke. me and Elder Leonon go to the chapel early to get the font filled. set up chairs. do the program. yada yada yada. so we are talking about who can give thoughts and prayers. then we here the water stop running.... and we both kinda flip a brick. the running water here is not the most reliable of systems and turns out the the font had no water left in reserve to put in the font. so we start running all over the chaple trying to fill up buckets and fill the font that way. but we dried up the entire chaple and had only about 1 foot of water... we had 2 hours till the baptism... so we start calling members and eventually resort to go to the nearest members house which is about a quarter mile away filling up buckets of water and running back to the church. MY ARMS WERE DEAD BY THE END!!! but we got the water up to about 1 and a half feet by the time the baptism started...

so we ask her if it will be alright if she just sits down for the baptism. she said it would be fine and so we continue. so we go through with it. and everything is going fine. she enters the water. her fiancés grandpa does the baptismal prayer and then he tries to dunk her... her knee was above the water, so we did it agian... and again... and again... i think i counted 8 times... yea... eventually we had to just hold her knee down for her and then push her sholders down slowly. but eventually we got it. it was quite an experience for everyone. it was really cool because you could hear the whole room relax when we finally got it right.

so yep. thats the story of my first baptism. way cool. i´m hoping more people will follow her example. =) i dont have any time left so... yea

love you all!!! keep on keeping on!!! i´m so jealous about the boat... YOU ARE ALL FETCHERS!!! haha! tchau!!!

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