Gendraily got baptized on Saturday! But let me tell you about the horrific ordeal that went down behind the scenes.....
...It
was Saturday morning when my companion and I went to clean and fill the
font for Gendraily´s baptism. As we opened the doors to the font we
were shocked to see about 4 inches of water in the font--dirty water.
"Stinking Elder´s can´t even drain the font right!" I thought to myself.
The stench of the dirty water was a little hard to bear, but we got to
work trying to unstop the drain nonetheless. Despite our best efforts,
the water remained. I called the Elders and explained the situation and
one told me, "Oh yeah this is the worst font ever, the drain hardly
works. Last time my companion and I used the plunger to get the water
down. Try that. We´ll be there to help in a minute." Whelp. My companion
and I got the plunger and as she was plunging awañy at the drain she
started to shreek, "Compa! Compa! What IS that?!" I looked at the drain
to see that dark, cloudy filth was seeping up from the drain, turning
the dirty water even dirtier. As the water became darker and darker the
stench grew stronger and stronger. We could no longer bear it. Retreat!
Retreat! We figured that we had unclogged whatever was in the drain and
decided to wait a few minutes--far from the font and the foul smell--to
see if the water would go down. The Elders showed up and when we went to
examine the font it looked the same. The valiant elders got into the
water with buckets and begain to bail all the dirty water out for us.
When there was just a teensy bit of water and filth left, a member
suddenly showed up. As she examined the scene before her with her eyes
and witnessed the stench with her nose, she pieced together what had
somehow managed to escape four foreigners. "Elders!" she shouted. "Get
out of the font! That is POOP WATER!!!!" Ahhhhhh!!!! The poor elders
spent a good long while washing their legs off with some bleach in the
bathroom sinks. But wait. There´s more. Now that we could see the drain
clearly, it became evident that the poopy water continued to surge
upward into the font little by little, coming from the RIM of the drain.
That meant that even if we could manage to remove all water and filth,
disinfect the font, plug the drain, and fill it with clean water that
little by little poopy water would seep in and contaminate it all over
again! And you just can´t baptize somebody in poopy water--it defeats
the whole symbol of baptism! https://drive.google.com/open?id=0ByRUZeow-VaVanFfdS11QW9yODA
