Hello family.
This is going to be another short one! We had to go to the offices today to pick up some things we needed so sadly we spent a huge chunk of time on the bus. But it was for things we needed in order to preach.
Well, we had a baptism this week! The Lord definitely blessed us. Her name is Nancy. And it is quite a story!
Here is the story.
We filled up the font. It was full. Then 30 minutes before the baptism we go to look and make sure everything is ready. The font was almost empty. Some misbehaved kid (who is well known for touch everything that is really important) touched the button to drain the font and wasn´t tall enough to touch the off button. He drained the font. The pump seal broke and water was all over the floor in the Women's bathroom. We didn´t know this. So we go to turn on the water, nothing comes out. We try a sink in the church. Nothing comes out. We tell the Bishop and the ward mission leader and they go out to the tank and just start flipping breakers and switches and finally the water re-enters the building. Now its filling up again. We put it on full blast which at the very least takes 3 hours. We tell the members that we are going to wait 1 hour and that we are going to baptize standing in the water on our knees. One by one the members leave. Slowly but surely the font fills.
30 minutes later we tell Nancy that she can get dressed. We ask the sisters to help her. They walk in the bathroom. No joke, 10 seconds in she slips, falls and splits open the front of her knee while spraining it a little. The sisters run out (my companion is changing) grab towels and paper and stuff and run back in. I asked, what happened and they didn´t respond. The newest sister is from Idaho and she just said as she was running by "she fell". In my mind I was like "oh no, there it goes." More sisters run in and they are all saying call an ambulance. I ask them how bad it is and they say bad. I ask if I can go in to look at it. And nobody responds. I ask the Bishop to accompany me and we go in. Nancy was on a chair, almost crying and sisters around her asking if she can bend her knee. From all the yelling and crying and running I thought she literally broke her leg in half!
We walk in and we look at the wound. It was a good solid direct hit. We put bandages and things. After about 15 minutes or 20 minutes she gets up and starts to limp around. Members are telling me to call an ambulance and in my mind I was going to let Nancy decide. It was her day. We asked her, offering to schedule the baptism another day. She thinks and after about 5 seconds says. "No, I need to be baptized today, I want to." All in all it was a huge example of faith. The trial and then the blessing. At the end. There were 8 people in the baptismal service. Nancy, 4 missionaries, The ward mission leader and his wife, and another sister. The Bishop had to go because his wife and daughter were sick, so he gave us permission to do it with out him. We only had 3 priesthood holders. One to baptize and 2 to be witnesses. It was a very humble service but the spirit was strong. The talks were short, there were sweet testimonies and poorly sung hymns, but we all felt the messages to be true so we didn´t even notice.
I will never forget that baptism and the faith of Nancy! She is doing great. In about an hour and a half we have a meeting with her!
Anyways,
that all I have.
I have more to tell you next week!
I love you all!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Love,
Elder Moore
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