Friday night we were scrambling around. Our baptism was
scheduled for 7:00, and we showed up just after 6:00 and the font wasn't
filled. The people who ordinarily fill it up were out of town. We learned just
last night one of the branch presidency was supposed to have filled it, but he
didn't know about it. We had a key to the clothes and to open the font curtain,
but we didn't have a key to the panel to turn the water on. We had seriously
begun calling people to use a swimming pool--which are hard to find in
Lewiston--but luckily the branch counselor discovered his key worked. Secretly
I was kind of disappointed when I heard the water start. Baptizing in a
swimming pool would have made for much more interesting stories. But it was
interesting anyway. The baptism started late, due the fact that it wasn't
filled in time (and that the person getting baptized showed up in shorts and a
T-shirt, so his fellowshipper told him to go change), and it was pretty
shallow. I wasn't too happy with the person baptizing, because I thought it was
pretty irreverent--he was making light conversation with everyone who was
watching the whole time he was in the font. It was funny that he had to shove
him under the water because it was shallow. But he had to do it twice--he
managed both times to get him all the way under, but the first time he said
"Holy Spirit" instead of "Holy Ghost." But it worked
out--he was confirmed Sunday just before he left, so he starts the Marines
today.
A while back we were teaching a girl named Katelyn H. but she couldn't continue because of her family. Even while we were teaching her, she didn't come to church, even though she received her Young Women's award and went to seminary. Her family's home teacher's wife is kind of negative and saying she didn't think she should be baptized since she's hardly seen her at church, but she came to the singles branch yesterday and we're going to start teaching her again this week, so I'm excited about that.
We've also been good about saving miles so hopefully we'll start to be able to go to some of the small towns we cover. I've really come to love small towns on my mission. They're just fun to be in! Maybe when I'm married I'll move to Fillmore ;)
Love,
Elder Melville
A while back we were teaching a girl named Katelyn H. but she couldn't continue because of her family. Even while we were teaching her, she didn't come to church, even though she received her Young Women's award and went to seminary. Her family's home teacher's wife is kind of negative and saying she didn't think she should be baptized since she's hardly seen her at church, but she came to the singles branch yesterday and we're going to start teaching her again this week, so I'm excited about that.
We've also been good about saving miles so hopefully we'll start to be able to go to some of the small towns we cover. I've really come to love small towns on my mission. They're just fun to be in! Maybe when I'm married I'll move to Fillmore ;)
Love,
Elder Melville
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