Saved by the fire hose

I'm bummed out I wasn't able to see Emma's farewell! but it sounds like she did a great job which doesn't surprise me at all. This week was a pretty average, but we ended it really well!

One of our investigators two sundays ago totally surprised us by saying he wanted to get baptized. He has been investigating the church for 14 years and we thought he was joking. But he wasn't, he was totally serious. He had gotten married that week and said that that was the ONLY thing that was holding him back from getting baptized. He told us that he wanted to get baptized before church. We set everything up for him to get baptized at 8:00.

The problem was that we had a big miscommunication with filling up the baptismal font. We got there thirty minutes early and there was no water. It usually takes three hours to fill up. So we started filling it up. We found two buckets and were filling one up and sending the other to the font so that it would fill up faster. But it was going so slow, and Cèsar was getting super impatient about it. 

We said a prayer because honestly we had no idea what to do. When we finished the prayer we walked over to the font. As we were walking somebody noticed that there was a fire hose in the church. I have no idea how we didn't realize there was a huge red fire hose. Anyways the font filled up like in five minutes with the hose. The best part was right after getting baptized Cèsar shouted "I'm finally pure!" It was pretty funny but also very touching. A good witness that the family draws the very best out of us.

 My comp is a super cool dude. He is practicing his english a ton and speaks super well. Things are going great here.

Have a great week!

James E Faust

As we pray we should think of our Father in Heaven as possessing all knowledge, understanding, love, and compassion.