Season 14 Episode 4: Water Works (it really does!)

Hello Friends & Family,

This will be super short so I apologize. It felt like a really long week, but all is well. It is perfectly ok to have bad days, or bad weeks and this was one of them. Regardless I have a funny experience to share!

For about 2 weeks the sisters in Orangecrest have asked us to fill up the baptisimal font for a baptism, and we of course said we could! The baptismal font we were using usually took 4-5 hours to fill, and so we planned accordingly to wake up at 6 and fill it up. The day of the baptism rolls around and we had exchanges with the Arlington Heights elders. I was with Elder Lee, we excitedly went to exercise time in the morning and were returning home to shower. 

I checked my phone to see if any messages had come through and found that the Orangecrest sisters had texted us thanking us for filling up the font that morning! The only issue is that we actually hadn't filled it up that morning. We were supposed to start the water 2 hours earlier and had forgotten. I ran outside with Elder Lee, lost one of my flip flops, then ran back into the apartment to get the keys, ran back out, then ran back to get my wallet and we were off!!

Because of our time deficit, I concluded that we had to expedite the process by filling up buckets of water from the kitchen or the janitors closet. We couldn't find any buckets but found some cleaned out trash cans and began our quest! 1 hour and a half later of hauling buckets of water through the church, the baptisimal font was at where it should have been and we were able to meet the latest member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints and congratulate him! There is a video of us running and dumping buckets of water somewhere and I'll have to send that later!


That's this weeks happenings!
-Elder Vance