Filling up the Font

I have never gone through such a struggle to baptize somebody. About 2 hours before the baptism was scheduled we discovered that the water in the chapel ran out and the baptismal font wasnt even halfway full. It was not high enough to completely submerge a person. Bishop wanted to reschedule the baptism, but I was concerned about doing that. I said a prayer in the bathroom and asked what we should do. I felt like we needed to have the baptism that day.  I knew everything was in the Lords hands and that he would help us resolve the problem. For me, it was a great lesson on faith, works and prayer. The Lord didn't immediately show us what to do after I had prayed. I had tried my hardest to resolve the problem before I prayed, and then after I had prayed and asked for guidance I continued to try my hardest - asking everyone in the ward for any other possible way. Finally, out of the blue, someone told us about an underground water storage unit behind the church. We quickly went to the storage unit and opened it up. To our astonishment, we could see plenty of fresh, clean water, but with one problem, it was too deep to reach. So I decided to tie a thin rope to a bucket to pull the water out. With the help of the other missionaries, extra buckets that happened to be at the church, and a few members we were able to take out the water, one bucket at a time, and carry them one by one to the font. After about an hour and a half of manually pulling water out of the tanks, we managed to fill up the baptismal font enough to proceed with the baptism. We finished before the meetings were over and the baptism miraculously started on time. 

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