Adriana was baptized! She is awesome! She is what I would call a "dry Mormon" because the only thing she needed was to get in the Baptismal font. She was a faithful Latter Day Saint since the day I met her haha. She even invited everyone who was in the baptism to receive visits from the missionaries. It was a great service and she is so happy to finally be baptized!
We have been teaching tons of people, like I've mentioned in other emails. I won't bore you to death like last week, so I'll just tell you all a funny story and call it good for this week.
We baptized Adriana at Thursday. We had planned for it all to go down at 7pm. The Baptismal font currently doesn't have a working drain system, which is common haha, so we planned to go early in the morning to empty the font halfway, bucket by bucket, and then turn on the hot water and fill it back up with hot water, ready to go by 7pm. Well, plans change and we can't go until after lunch to the font, but it's okay cause we were told the font was emtpy and ready to be filled.
We show up at 3, and it's COMPLETELY full. Uh oh. We didn't have time to waste, so I took off my pants, got in the water and started bailing water out the window in buckets with my companion. It's a big font, I can't tell you how many gallons cause I don't know haha but it took us like 2 hours to empty it halfway, working hard and fast. We finally get it to a low water point and dry off, go outside to turn on the water boiler and it doesn't work, so we have to walk to a store to buy matches and guess what, they don't have change! So we walk back to the church, back to the store with change and buy matches for 2 pesos. We start the boiler, although from a bystander's point of view, it just looked like we were smoking weed behind the church. We wait for the boiler to heat up the water, we turn on the faucet and... no water comes out. We tried and tried, we turned on and off faucets and switches and valves all around the church, but to no avail. We were without water, and the rest of the water left in the font was ice cold and too low to be able to baptize. The rest of the water we threw out became a nice watering for the plants, so we just kind of stuffed ourselves in a tiny corner and ruined everything. Then the Bishop shows up like 20 minutes early and turns this tiny little switch we didn't see and I'm not sure if he did black magic or what but we got water and the font filled up enough to baptize Adriana. And that's how I spent my Thursday. Then I bought a gigantic pizza to reward myself for almost screwing up the baptism.
We are having a good time, enjoying what may be our last week in the mission field, and we're also a little nervous cause we've only got 12 more weeks on our mission. But it's life, and life must go on.
Quote of the week: Me- "I also contacted her and you didn't" Vincent- "Well that's because she was hot?!"
I'm gonna go eat Burger King now.
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