Hey Family,
So this weekend was intense. We got a call from our APs and they challenged us to baptize this week. We didn't have any baptismal dates for this Saturday and we were a little frustrated by their invitation. But then my companion and i learned a very important lesson. A few actually. We decided that we did indeed want to baptize. We believed that it was possible. If it weren't then our leaders wouldn't have challenged us to do it. We had the desire and the faith we just needed the works. We decided that yes, we were going to do it. Then we went a little crazy running after some people. After we found three of our investigators that could be baptized we did everything possible to help them be baptized this last weekend. Everything turned against us. Our water heater at the church never worked. All the youth would be away at an activity or in another state. The parents of one didn't authorize it. The other parents were upset because they thought it was too soon. Both of the two young women we were going to baptize were passing through that time of the month and were nervous and didn't want to be baptized. The young woman's president was going to be out of town. The member that they wanted to baptize them would also be gone. We didn't know why but we just knew that the Lord wanted us to baptize them this weekend. We went to our baptismal font, cleaned it out and kneeled to say a prayer. We prayed for hot water. The two girls passed in the interview and were actually excited to be baptized sooner rather than later when they stopped to think about it. The parents understood that we were just trying to do a good thing that would change their daughters lives forever, we filled up the font and the heater....turned on. The bishop told us later that it had never worked since they installed it. The baptism ended up being one of the most spiritual of my mission.
Woohoo!
I love you guys! have a great week!!!
Elder Romm
So this weekend was intense. We got a call from our APs and they challenged us to baptize this week. We didn't have any baptismal dates for this Saturday and we were a little frustrated by their invitation. But then my companion and i learned a very important lesson. A few actually. We decided that we did indeed want to baptize. We believed that it was possible. If it weren't then our leaders wouldn't have challenged us to do it. We had the desire and the faith we just needed the works. We decided that yes, we were going to do it. Then we went a little crazy running after some people. After we found three of our investigators that could be baptized we did everything possible to help them be baptized this last weekend. Everything turned against us. Our water heater at the church never worked. All the youth would be away at an activity or in another state. The parents of one didn't authorize it. The other parents were upset because they thought it was too soon. Both of the two young women we were going to baptize were passing through that time of the month and were nervous and didn't want to be baptized. The young woman's president was going to be out of town. The member that they wanted to baptize them would also be gone. We didn't know why but we just knew that the Lord wanted us to baptize them this weekend. We went to our baptismal font, cleaned it out and kneeled to say a prayer. We prayed for hot water. The two girls passed in the interview and were actually excited to be baptized sooner rather than later when they stopped to think about it. The parents understood that we were just trying to do a good thing that would change their daughters lives forever, we filled up the font and the heater....turned on. The bishop told us later that it had never worked since they installed it. The baptism ended up being one of the most spiritual of my mission.
Woohoo!
I love you guys! have a great week!!!
Elder Romm
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