Yesterday
was crazy! ANOTHER BAPTISM – one of our investigators, “James”, is the husband
of “Rose” who has been a member for 22 years now. James finally decided to take
the discussions and then he committed to baptism! YAY! He had a stroke or
something and so his legs do not work now. Yesterday was his baptism! It has
been such an ordeal getting this baptism together because #1 getting James in
and out of the font took a special wheel-chair like invention and 6 people in
the font and #2 his granddaughters are also getting baptized and they wanted to
do it together. So that is a dual-ward baptism which is really hard to
coordinate apparently. :) But yesterday we showed up for church and the power
went out. And because of liability reasons, the stake president cancelled
church. Everyone was freaking out because no one was coming to fix the lights
until 1:30 and they were thinking it would take hours to fix and that means the
baptism would have to be moved because the font takes 2 hours to fill, bla bla
bla. So we prayed. The lights turned on at exactly 11:30. So there was no need
to cancel church. Anyways. It was cancelled. And after all the chaos, the
baptism happened at 3! Right on time. It was incredible to see all of the men
in the font dressed in white who all worked together to baptize James. It was truly
a testimony builder as we saw the power of the Priesthood work to lift their
fellow man. It was great.
I also want
to say how awesome my companions are. We are all trying to improve and be
better missionaries and it is SO NICE. No one has to worry about saying things
we think we could improve because we are all moving towards the same goal. They
are so sweet and great. I really love them. It was a really good week. Full of
daily ups and downs, but the Lord is with me every step of the way. He truly
answers my prayers and is so aware of me.
Until next
time!
Sister
Larrabee
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