Today couldn't have been a more wonderful day! It was so precious! We had an excellent turn out, right around 50 people came to celebrate this event. There were 5 who were baptized! We had to change our plans for our one blind lady. The water was so cold and she is not the healthiest woman, so we decided to postpone her baptism for tomorrow night. We are going to try and come up with some way to baptize her here in our village with hot water. This could prove to be quite the experience since we really have no idea what we are going to use to put the water in. Greg is going to look for a blow up pool tomorrow. Ha, it is about 45 degrees outside and I doubt anyone is selling those right now, however he is going to try. We will see what we end up with. So, tonight I will upload our pictures of the great day. I am only going to upload some, I took about 100, and then on Tuesday, I will try to upload more when we are in town with high speed internet. Please pray for tomorrow night, we are just so excited about this group of people! God is so good!
I also want to thank some of you for adopting the shoe boxes! We now have our shoe boxes covered! Our village kids will receive shoe boxes with goodies in them, personal notes and pictures from some of you and your churches. We plan on having a Christmas party with pinatas, Christmas candy, cake and games. We can't wait! So, thank you for helping us make this Christmas special for the kids here!
Love you all! Missy
This was our first candidate, Francisca.
baptisms, as the assisted.
This is Lucas, he is extremely shy but was so happy to follow Jesus in baptism.
(I know, I know, Corona, huh? It is his soccer jersey, what do you do?)
Next it was Annie's turn. She wasn't scared, but she didn't like being in front of so many people.
Under she goes......
wait for it.......
wait for it....
Is that awesome, or what?
She was one happy camper!
This is Tata Icho. He has struggled with the decision to be baptized for about 2 years. He felt like he needed to be perfect before he could be baptized. We tried to explain that isn't what the Bible says but he had it in his head that he wasn't ready. Last night, he decided he just needed to do it, to be obedient and follow Jesus. We were so proud of him!
He was proud too, so proud, he decided to go for a swim afterward! Look...
This is Mariella. Mariella was the first person our leaders ever baptized by
themselves. It was a great day for her and for them!
I am not sure who was happier, me and Greg, the leaders, or the people who were baptized.
It was just such and awesome experience!
Thanks for sharing it with us! More tomorrow!
