Oh my goodness let me just tell you about the most stressful day of my mission by far last Saturday!
First though, a few stories from Friday:
We were walking back from a lesson and a super white girl that was like 5 ran up to me and asked "hey how many fingers do you have??" I was like well thats a dang weird question, but I answered normally that I have 10. She then yells "I HAVE 12!" and lifts up both of her pinkies and shows me two warts on both of them that have like towers growing out of them. I was like OHHHHHHHH MY WHAT HAS NATURE DONE TO YOU??? She asked if she could touch me with them. She rubbed my hand with her wart towers. Gross.
We were teaching a lesson with a new person later in the day. Right before we prayed to start, Jehovahs Witnesses showed up and started teaching on the other side of the street! The streets here are like the size of one car. Basically back to back. The thing is though, I didn't hear them say one word. So we just kept on teaching while they were just sitting there starring at the neighbor. Then like half way through our lesson, right before Joseph Smith, they just got up and left. I was so confused- what in the world happened there- but all is good and well haha!
Here we go! The story of Saturday:
We show up nice and early to the church to prepare the baptism for Bety and Ricardo. We got the baptismal font nice and clean and went to start to fill the font. Just like the last week, there wasn't any water. We climbed up to the roof to check the water tanks and there just wasn't even a drop of water in the whole church. We were like yeah that's fantastic, we will just do what we did last week and talk to one of the members to call the firemen and fill the font again. We had another problem at that time and it's that the old man Ricardo asked for hot water because the cold hurts where they took his leg. So we went and found huge pots and got ready to boil water and we went to lunch. At lunch we talked to the member about the firemen and he said they would be there at 3 pm to fill it for us! Woohoo all good there! We showed up to the church at 3:03 and waited an hour with nothing... We called the firemen and they said they had already come by! They came spot on at 3 and then left after like 1 minute! Shoot! They told us they would come back at 5:30 if they could to help us. When 5:30 came around, they didn't show up. At 6, we decided to go by the fire station and ask what was up. The firetruck had left for an emergency and they didn't think it was going to get back. At this point there was like 1 hour until the baptism and the font was empty. I stressed and started calling the bishop and the mission leader to tell them we were going to the closest river possible to baptize them but they didn't answer! We were just at the church but then a miracle happened. The firetruck showed up and filled it all for us! Right when they showed up, we started to boil the water to try to make it hot. Right before we were going to baptize them, we chucked the hot water in and I went it to baptize the wife. The hot water didn't do anything. Dang it. When I was in the font with Bety, she started to cry and I felt the spirit so strong. That moment made all the stress worth it. Then it was time to baptize Ricardo. We had a little stool that we put in the water so we could baptize him. The mission leader was going to baptize him but asked me to be in the font to help him. I helped carry him to the water and sit him in the seat and got him ready. I went off to the side and the mission leader said the prayer and laid him back. The chair made it so he couldn't go all the way under. He told me that I had to push his legs down when he went in. We got ready and did it again, but his legs weren't going under so in the last second I kicked his chair out from under him and shoved him all the way under pffffffft hahaha!!!!! He got baptized!!! We got him up and put him in the chair everything was all good. This was all a really great experience though. We ended an 8 year journey for them investigating the church. I'm so happy for them and I'm just so grateful that I was able to be a little part of it.
I love you all so much!!!! Here are some amazing pictures from the week! I'm old!!!!
Elder Campbell
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| baptism! |
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| The young mens brought me an ice cream cake for my birthday |
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