Lindsey's Baptism

Well, on the same day as McKay received his mission call, we had the privilege in Kalamazoo
of having a baptism. It started out as MaryAnn would call it, an "Indiana Jones" experience.
I was supposed to meet the young elders at the Stake Center at 4 PM to fill the font, and go through a last minute check list to be sure we were ready. They were to bring the key to the chapel, the font, etc. Well, I waited for an hour and a half and they finally showed up at 5:30, with the baptism scheduled to go at 6. They had been eating dinner at a member's house and lost track of the time. Next, there was little hot water in the heater at the SC so we had to fill the font very closely in order to not have it ice cold. As I watched the water rising a fraction of an inch every few minutes, I was trying to guess how deep it would be by the time the baptism would get underway. Then when we got their keys and checked in the cabinet for baptismal clothes we discovered that it was empty! No clothes in sight. We got on the phone trying to find out where the clothes had went. Finally, someone from the Stake came with a master key and we started searching other cabinets. We finally found the clothes. Next, we couldn't find anyting to fit Lindsey. She is very short and everything was a larger size. I was about ready to look for some scissors in order to make a pair fit her, but finally we found a children's baptism jump suit and had her take that. The baptismal service got started only 15 minutes late, so we really lucked out. With all that going on it ended up only a short delay. The service went great with super talks from all on the program. We handed out very nice programs, compliments of Jeff getting them and mailing programs to us with the picture of Christ's baptism on the cover. The font filled finally, and Lindsey was baptized. It was a super spiritual meeting, with most of the branch members there. After the baptism service which lasted about 45 minutes, we gathered at the home of one of the branch presidency members for a barbecue. We had the usual super fun gathering with the branch members, had a great meal and then went in the living room and roared with laughter as branch members played Wii boxing on the TV. Today we had her confirmation at Sac. Meeting which went well also, with a great circle of missionaries and young branch members. We then met for another dinner at someone's house afterwards and, as usual, it has been party, party, party at KUB. Here are some pictures. Elder Dad