We had another baptism

We had another baptism on Sunday for Cortney Lavendar. Oh my, what a day!!!! We were absolutely drained. We tried all week to get her interviewed for the baptism by Pres Fossum. He told us to bring her to the church on Sunday morning at 9:00 and he would interview her. We went to her house, picked her and her grandmother up. (Her mom was not there. No one knew where she was). OF course, when we arrived, no one was there. (No Show on Pres Fossum) We laughed and tried to set things up with just the four of us. Finally Lula arrived and dad left to go pick up Hannah, an investigator who seems very interested. I took Cortney and her grandmother into primary and we started to sing songs. Finally LUla came in and then Dad showed up with Hannah. The ladies went to Sunday School and I started primary with one child. You won't believe this, but at 11:00 (when Sacrmaent meeting was suppose to begin, we finally started to get a few of Cortney's family, but there was no priesthood there at all except dad. Dad said he would take care of the sacrament and to call the Elders from Ruidoso to come and help us with the baptism (still no President) (Lula, his mother in law said he was ill and his wife was working) Then half way through the sacrament meeting they showed up. Lula said she went to get them and found them sleeping on the couch. (Frussstrating!!!) Then I realized there was no water in the font! And Pres Fossum had not interviewed Cortney yet! Wow! talking about disorganization. But we made it through and all went well. As a matter of fact it was a very spritual baptism. I cried when Cortney got up and sang "I belong to the church of Jesus Christ". We did our job, but we paid the price to get there.

We had another baptism

Wow. The Lord has blessed us with another baptism!!!!! We are so excited. We actually had two but one of them had a few problems and has commited for the 22 of January.

We met Renee Ahidley after two months on our mission while knocking on doors. She said she was interested in having her son baptized. So we made appointment after apointment trying to get back with her, but to no avail. We met the grandfather, who said he would really like to have his grandson baptized too. When we found out his mother was in jail and no longer in the picture, we asked if we could come by and teach him. We did. He is a very bright and intelligent boy with a great desire to be baptized. As a matter of fact he asked me at church, "Sister Lee, When am I going to get bapized?" We had to wait for his mother to be released so it was put off until January. A program was planned and Dad spent the whole morning at the church filling the font. You see the water heater will only produce small amounts of hot water. The time came and people started coming to the church for this special occasion. A while after 2:00 we began to realize that the person who was suppose to baptize him was not coming, or the person saying the prayer, or the talk. We asked another priesthood member to baptize, but that left us short a witness. We spent over an hour trying to find someone. We only have 5 people on the reservation who has priesthood authority. We panicked and thought we would have to wait until the next day. Then a call was given to Brother Nielsen, who is our High Councilman, who came up. The baptism was performed, I gave the talk, and it was completed. We were excited to see this happen, as it looked very doubtful at the time. You will never meet a boy who had such a a desire to be baptized. He is 10 years old. We love him.