E-Mail 10-19-09

Hey everyone
What's up? This week has been OK. First off I got a new comp, his name is Elder Haro. He seems cool.

Next, I baptized again this week so that was good!!! It was kinda crazy. The other elders didn't drain the font from their baptism the week before. So when we got there to fill it, it was full of old water with dead AND alive bugs in it. YA it smelled bad and was just gross. So then we tried to drain it but the drain was not working and we needed to use it the next day. So guess what??? I had to take my shoes off put on my gym shorts and climb down in the nasty dirty gross water with a bucket. I had to hand out buckets of this water to my comp then he carried them outside. It took over an hour and a half. I bucketed out old, nasty, gross water barefoot!!! Fun huh, hahahaha ya nasty!!! So then after all that we turned the water on to fill the font and left. But when we came back the water was not really working so we left it on all night to fill. But it never filled it very much. So the next morning when we got there to check the font it was only a 4th of the way full, about 6 inches below my knees. So we had to baptize this guy but didn't have much water so I had him sit on his butt in the water and I knelt down and baptized him. Ya I had my first sitting baptism!!! Cool huh hahahah ya it was a good experience.

So lets see what else, this week has been boring no other cool experiences. So Ross had a good wedding? I'm glad it was good and everyone loved it. It was really hard not to be there and be able to be a part of it but it's OK. I wore the tie and took pics so I'll send them next week OK.

That is about it for this week. I got a new companion, he seems cool but I have only been with him for an hour so I'm not really sure yet but we will see. I am doing good.
I love you all!
Love
Elder Fackler