Angelique's Baptism

Angelique's baptism:

It was about 8am. Things were... calm. I thought of the quote from Futurama

Soldier: "This is the worst part... The calm before the battle."

Fry: "Really? And then the battles not so bad?"

Soldier: "Oh right, I forgot about the battle *fearfully squeals*"

The last baptism we had the adversary made an attempt on our lives so naturally we were slightly uneasy. We made our first move of the day by calling the Bedford elders to borrow their flash drive and then the games began. 

We learned to little too late that the Bedford elders had changed apartments and so they were now about 25 minutes away instead of 15. We left our own apartment way too late to make it to them by 10:30. We had a lesson 30 minutes away from them that was supposed to start at 11. We showed up at Bedford and they couldn't find the right flash drive. They were on exchange and so Elder Hartman was on the phone with Elder Lundell, whose flash drive we needed. 

Elder Lundell didn't realize we were there nor that he was on speaker phone whem he said, "I'm not really going to worry about it right now. Just tell them they're on their own." 

Ouch.

We showed up at 11:30 to our lesson but since they were on African time we were actually early . Africans are notorious for being just... awful at time management, an African minute is close to 7 real minutes. The lesson mostly consisted of them getting ready and inviting them to church. Unfortunately it took 4ever to get out of there and people kept calling us and I knew something had gone wrong. 

We saw the people that had called us were part of the baptism program and as we called them back it was revealed to us that some out of the loop person was posting that the baptism was next week and so we had to quickly rectify the mistake by reminding everyone for the second time that day.

We pulled up at the church and the 8th elders had filled up the font for us. It was only 12:30 and the baptism started at 2. We thought we were doing fine so we relaxed and studied for a bit but around 1:45 I got a little nervous because no one was there, not even Angelique. In fact besides us, the only person we could see was the sister giving the opening prayer eating a sandwich in her car. The warning bells were going off until 1:50 when everyone flooded in.  

The service was wonderful and at the end Angelique bore her testimony on Jospeh Smith. Way back when we started teaching her Elder Alleman and I thought she was having a difficult time understanding what we were talking about so we gave her a children's Book of Mormon a d told her to pray about the Joseph Smith story at the beginning. Apparently she recieved a powerful witness thag he was a true prophet from it. 

Kitabu cha Mormoni ni cha kweli!

Love, 

Elder Murdoch