Day Three

A long day but a great day! We started out with just a quick breakfast of toast and a scrambled egg (Connie just had toast). Then to Priscilla Street for 3 and one half hour of teaching and answering questions on eldership. Then the men went up the street to Jarwlee Lewis Hall for their study. The ladies stayed at Priscilla Street for their study. The ladies did a great job of teaching according to Mary and Mabel and other ladies. Mitch and I never were able to get into our planned lessons – we had three non-members and one – Solomon who had been at the evening studies because of seeing the teaching of our DVD’s on TV had numerous questions and all the men then had questions about one baptism – Holy Spirit – one body, etc. For about three and a half hours we studied these things. Then all of a sudden Solomon asks “do you delay baptism?” Our answer was “no”. Well, folks he was ready to be baptized and we immediately moved to Priscilla Street to baptize him. We had to interrupt Connie who was in the last lesson – she understood of course – then Sarah who is 16 also stated she wanted to be baptized came forward. Christian took their confession of Christ and baptized them into Christ in the repaired baptistery at Priscilla Street – it was a glad day! We then came back to the hotel and cleaned up and ate at 7:30 PM – approximately 12 hours from our egg and toast. We were all very hungry – also Mitch and I ran out of water and when they brought us some I immediately recognized that it was water we learned from a previous trip to avoid. So we were very thirsty when we returned also. Tomorrow we look forward to worshipping with the brethren at Priscilla Street. Cindy and Connie will be conducting classes for children and ladies in the Bible Study hour while I will teach men about church finances. Mitch will present the sermon on Eternity and Heaven. It was a great day! God is good! All the time! Today was not an exception!