Week 90

San Jacinto week 6.  Bailing for Baptisms

Email Date: March 31, 2014

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This week was really good. My district has been doing really well. Two of the three companionships baptized this last week, and we all have really solid investigators set for the next couple of weeks. 

We've had a really good week and a couple of good stories. 

For starters I went on exchanges with one of the Elders in my zone, and we had a really spiritual lesson with a member lady who was moving. It was really cool to see how the conversation was guided by the Spirit. Even though the main message was for the Lady and for the Elder I was with (we were talking about overcoming depression and whatnot) but I was there merely to provide scriptural backing to what they were saying. I felt the spirit super strong confirming that people are placed in the right place at the right time to do the thing that God needs them to. 

We helped the Sister move the next day which was one of the best moves ever. Super organized, everything packed and ready to go. 

On Saturday we had Jason and Cheyenne's baptism. It was something of a fiasco, but it all worked out in the end. So we don't have keys to the baptismal font (bad Idea, missionaries should have them.) but when we got the building reserved. I told the WML that we needed to make sure that we have the key. He wasn't able to come so he had a ward missionary go in his place. We reminded everyone about the key. An hour before the baptism we went to the building, expecting the ward missionary to be there filling the font... We opened the gate, and showed up into the empty parking lot. Bad sign. 

Anyway, to make a long story short. We didn't have a key. We made a bunch of phone calls, and the guy with the key was in Riverside. Made more phone calls and got somebody to come out and unlock the font. So 20 minutes before the baptism was supposed to start we started filling the font, and it's a slow filler. 

We found a galvanized steel trash can in the custodial closet and filled that up along with some buckets, and made a bunch of trips too and fro dumping the trashcan into it as the program was going on. 

Miraculously, we got the font filled on time, and the baptism ended 15 minutes after 4. The room was packed, and everything went well. The Lord Provides a way. 

  

This morning Elder Hanson and Plotkin and I went hiking (Elder Snider has bad allergies so he couldn't come). We had a good time, I don't have time to send pictures unfortunately. 

It was really weird getting my travel plans today.... It's so weird that I'm going home in 3 months 0.o

Thank you for everything, Love you guys!

Love, Elder Bryce Johns