Wow! What a week! I will start off with the exciting news. Two baptisms this week!! Cindy and Huang Jiemei (jiemei means sister, and the last name is Huang. My name is Sun jiemei - Sister Sun).
We have had an exciting and crazy week getting Cindy and Huang Jiemie ready for their baptism. We had a busy day Saturday, which included us and some of the elders cleaning the baptismal fount. It hadn't been cleaned in forever, and it was nasty. But it looked a lot better after we were done. We had told both Cindy and Huang Jiemei to get there at 7:15 as we knew both of them would probably be late (it started at 8). Huang jiemie got there about 7:30, which was a perfect amount of time. At that point we called Cindy, and she said she would be there in a second. Huang Jiemei changed, and we took pictures. At 7:45 we started calling Cindy again because she wasn't there. We were getting really stressed – not because we thought she was backing out but because she was being the 13 year old that she is and was late. I would likely be late at thirteen as well (well I would likely be late as a 22 year old). Nonetheless, it was still immensely stressful for us.
We have had an exciting and crazy week getting Cindy and Huang Jiemie ready for their baptism. We had a busy day Saturday, which included us and some of the elders cleaning the baptismal fount. It hadn't been cleaned in forever, and it was nasty. But it looked a lot better after we were done. We had told both Cindy and Huang Jiemei to get there at 7:15 as we knew both of them would probably be late (it started at 8). Huang jiemie got there about 7:30, which was a perfect amount of time. At that point we called Cindy, and she said she would be there in a second. Huang Jiemei changed, and we took pictures. At 7:45 we started calling Cindy again because she wasn't there. We were getting really stressed – not because we thought she was backing out but because she was being the 13 year old that she is and was late. I would likely be late at thirteen as well (well I would likely be late as a 22 year old). Nonetheless, it was still immensely stressful for us.
It was around 8 o’clock and still no Cindy. The member family whose daughter was getting baptized at the same time had arrived, and we were really starting to sweat. We sent some of the elders out on a mission to go find Cindy as she still was not answering her phone. Thankfully, at 8:10 she finally arrived. We had the zone leaders call the other elders to tell them to abort the mission, and we quickly got Cindy changed. There were so many people there because it was the baptism of the little girl whose family is in the ward, which was a blessing and also a little bit stressful. A blessing because there were a lot of people there and really stressful because there were so many people there including many, many children.
They were able to share their testimonies which were so nice to hear. Poor Cindy was so nervous, but she made it through!
We got home and were completely exhausted. My companion said that often baptisms are like that -awesome and wonderful – but super stressful. Although she did say that was the most stressful one she had ever been to. Their confirmations went well on Sunday and both were on time, which was a huge tender mercy!
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