Buckets and Buckets of Water

My goodness. On Saturday, June 28, Manuel was baptized! It was amazing! Before the service was a little bit of a gong show though...we went early to get the font filled up in time but for some reason it was taking forever and by 4:15 it was only to mid-shin!! The baptism was supposed to start at 5 and we were freaking out!! Sister Smith and I improvised with pitchers and giant pots from the kitchen and got to work filling them from the washroom sinks to dump into the font! We called the elders and got two more sets of them in other washrooms and the kitchen filling those big (clean) trash barrels and thank heavens by 5:15 it was finally waist high. My oh my it was ridiculous. We couldn't stop laughing. After that little fiasco we started the service and the Spirit was so strong and he was so happy to be making this step so that his family could be together forever! Whoop whoop! It was so worth it. The speakers really focused on the importance that the gift of the Holy Ghost will be for him in his life as he is leading his family on the straight and narrow. It was a great lesson that we can all be learning. Listen to the Spirit! Then after the baptism we had some refreshments, of course, and best of all, there was a pinata! AyAyAY!! haha Manuel got a kick out of that- he said it felt "just like home" He's from Chihuahua, Mexico if I haven't ever mentioned that before.. Good times! It's days like that that make up for all the really tough ones.

Manuel almost gave us a heart attack on Sunday though because he was like 10 minutes late to church and we're thinking holy smokes please show up! He was lucky that it was a long weekend and the ward was already looking pretty small so they were giving everyone a few extra minutes to show up haha (Canada Day is tomorrow, remember?) Church was great though, one of the speakers in sacrament, and the lesson in combined relief society/elders quorum was really focused on fathers and their important role to the family. They related it to mothers too, but mainly on the men. "The three P's of Fatherhood: Preside, Provide, and Protect." Study the Family: A Proclamation to the World again if you haven't in a while. I love church, it's so inspiring and uplifting! I hope we can all take what we've learned at church and apply it into our daily lives this week. I know I will/am. It's going to be a great week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

HAPPY CANADA DAY. Oh, and happy Fourth of July to you Americans! 

xoxox,

Sister Davis