The Effort for Baptisms

Hello,

We had some baptisms this week. The baptism was great. It was for Jean and Vola who were recently married. They were extremely happy that day.

When ever there is a baptism we have to coordinate it and make sure everything runs smoothly. So, the baptism day can be a little stressful up to the moment that you step into the font with your investigator. Before the baptism, I was running around getting everything ready. I went and got out the white baptismal clothes for Jean and Vola. They were still wet from the last baptisms that had happened 2 weeks before. I also saw that the bathroom that we change our clothes in was way muddy, so I went and got a mop and cleaned it. In the meantime, the Baptismal Font was leaking and the little kids were playing in the puddles surrounding it. That was a little hectic... However I found it very humorous.

While we were meeting with the branch president, I started hearing some one messing around on the piano in the sacrament room. Thinking it was the kids, I asked Elder Monson to go kick them off of the piano and start playing some music to invite the spirit before we got started. When we walked into the sacrament room to execute the plan, the first thing I see is the young women's president trying to play a hymn, but butchering it so bad that I had mistaken her for children messing around. Elder Jakins and I instantly started busting up laughing.

At the end of the baptism, the members started cleaning the church so it would be nice for sacrament meeting the next day. Some one started heading to the bathrooms to start mopping but the branch president's wife who saw me cleaning the boy's bathroom earlier for the baptism stopped her saying that Elder Allen had already covered it. She went and checked anyways and noticed that the girls was still dirty. They instantly went from being thankful and proud of me to judging me for only cleaning the boys but not the girls. I just thought it was a funny situation seeing as it was not my intention to clean the boys bathroom. I just wanted the floor to not be dirty for my feet while I was changing. It happened to make me look bad in the end favoring boys over the girls. We all just laughed about it.

Baptisms are great... When they are finished. :)

Sincerely,
Elder Allen