Email 7-30-12

How the Fire Department saved the baptism....

Hello all

I´m sorry but it’s going to be a short one.

WE HAD A BAPTISM!! So Epifanio got baptized this last week. I’ll tell you really fast because I don´t have a lot of time.

We met with him every day. He was super excited to get baptized and we met with him and everything and the interview went super well and everything was good. So when Saturday got there we called our ward mission leader to see if he was going to get everything ready and he said that we shouldn´t worry about a thing and that everything was going to be fine. Ok cool.

At 1 we had to go do an interview in another area for the District leader and that went well and the guy is super cool and was going to get baptized, all that jazz. We got back and we still had about 2 hours before we needed to go pick up our clothes and Epifanio.

We were trying to get a few lessons in when the ward mission leader called us. He said that he didn´t have the key to get into the baptism font. Oh dang we still need to fill the font and we only have 1 hour before the baptism dang!!!!!!!

He came and picked us up and we went and got our clothes and everything and sped over to the church. We got to the church and opened the door to a very lovely surprise. The water from the last baptism 4 months ago was still there and it was NASTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What to do? We only had 1 hour to drain the font, clean it, and fill it back up again.

We turned on the pump to get the water out and it was going super super slow and so me and my comp grabbed 2 buckets and started scooping out the water bucket after bucket after bucket. We did that for 25 minutes without stopping and we got all the water out. We were sweating up a storm because we were flying as fast as we could.

We cleaned the font in 5 minutes and then we put in the hose to get the water coming in and we were like whoohooo the water is coming. But we looked and there was no way that we would have the font filled in 1 hour… let alone 3 days. The water was just trickling in. We were so scared. All the members were there and Epifanio was there and ahhhhhhhhhhh!!

What to do? What to do?..................... Who has water????????????? THE FIREMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We called them and at first they thought it was a joke and so they didn´t come and so we called and called and finally they came and filled the font in 2 minutes and we had the baptism. It was awesome and everyone was happy. THE END

ROHAYHU

Elder Beatty