Saturday, March 28, 2020

Helping with stake baptisms

My calling is the stake primary music leader also involves me helping with stake baptisms. I think they're fun and I feel useful when I'm there. I filled in for another one of our leaders that had to go to a funeral. It was a unique baptism in that the chairs had to be 6 ft apart and very limited numbers of family watch were allowed the baptism because of the covid-19 restrictions on group sizes. We only had one baptism at a time and luckily there were only two for the whole stake. One ward met at 10:00 and the other ward met at 11:00. We normally have people meet in the chapel or a primary room or relief society room and then shuffle them into the font room for the baptism. Since only one ward was meeting we had them meet in the font room. The drain makes a funny gurgly sound, so we didn't have the last person in the font pull the drain. As everyone was leaving, Brother Evans tried to pull the drain chain with a golf club that he had. Brother Evans is in a wheelchair and was trying to do it himself. He dropped the golf club into the font and then tried to fish it out with a squeegee. After getting his golf club out he tried to pull the chain again but the chain came off the drain plug. So then we were trying to get the drain plug pulled with the golf club thing but I suggested that I could wade into the font with my skirt hiked up a little bit and get it with my toes. I could not figure out how to pull up the drain with my toes and so I ended up just reaching down with my arm and getting the drain pulled up. 


I got a little wet but the job got done. Brother Evans was so embarrassed and I felt bad for him. I assured him that this was nobody's fault and that we got the job done and that was the most important thing. I thought it was hilarious. I think the last time I was in a regular baptismal font, not a temple one, was when I was getting baptized! Mandy was there and snapped this picture for me.

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