Only Two Baptisms

We only schedule baptisms every other week. This week we had five people who had committed to baptism, but things didn't fall into place so, just two young men were baptized.

Elders N'Gondo and Tshituka with Alain and Jean Paul

When only two of the five were baptized, I found myself a little discouraged and thinking "Only two baptisms." Then I thought again and realized how crazy it was that I was discouraged by two baptisms in two weeks. What would I have thought at home had we had two convert baptisms in a two week time period? I would have been ecstatic to see so many people joining the church.

We laugh sometimes when we say, "Let's go that way. That's a pretty good road!" or "What a really nice wall that they have around that house! I love their barbed wire. It's so shiny and even!"

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It seems that standards are too often allowed to be a matter of perspective.

I don't know too much about the young men who were baptized, but I do know this story about Jean Paul. He 's a guard at the US embassy job site where Brother Willes works. He works there full-time while attending the university and came to Brother Willes to request church information. When he got a Book of Mormon he read it, contacted Brother Willes and said, " I read this book and I know that it's true. So what do I do now?" How could I ever think of such a person as "just" one baptism? He's a great young man and I think that he'll become a fine leader of a family and in the church someday. I'm sure that Alain's story is just as amazing.

I need to have the perspective of the Savoir when he taught and blessed the children one by one. It's a great blessing to see a believing person come into the fold of God.

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One baptism is certainly enough.