I met up with the Oras Team today on their rest day. It was
great seeing everyone again and I have some great news to relay from them and a
very amusing story as well.
This team has been doing great work and this past week. God
has given them opportunities to preform a total of 13 baptisms!
Taylor & her translator, Di, were speaking to an elderly woman named Nani Mary about the importance of baptism after the decision to follow Christ and eventually she agreed to be baptized. Excited, they suggested going to river and asked when, but she requested they instead did it in her house.
Taylor & her translator, Di, were speaking to an elderly woman named Nani Mary about the importance of baptism after the decision to follow Christ and eventually she agreed to be baptized. Excited, they suggested going to river and asked when, but she requested they instead did it in her house.
Confused they asked, “Why?” and she responded that she
didn’t want others to see it happen.
Realizing that they hadn’t gotten through to her yet they
continued to explain about the significance of showing the whole world your
dedication to Christ.
She agreed again and said that the river would be fine…but
maybe they could do it at 6PM?
Disappointed that they still hadn’t gotten through to her
they sat there confused as to what to say next.
Taylor turned to Di and asked her if they could just do it
right now!
Di asked Nani Mary and after a slight pause she silently
nodded her head and immediately started to strip off her clothes! She wrapped a
bathing cloth around herself, grabbed a bag, and marched right out the door
and down to the river.
Standing there shocked, Taylor looked at Di and started
slowly pulling everything they had out of their pockets before they both followed
quickly after the elderly woman.
So there they were, in the river, Taylor’s clothes
completely soaked, but not a care was given.
The baptism was preformed. Right afterwards, Nani Mary and Nani
Delia, who had joined them during, invited Taylor to bathe with them.
Caught completely off guard she looked down at her soaked
clothes and tried to beg off the excuse of having no soap but instantly a bar
of soap appeared in Nani’s hand and was shoved in Taylor’s hands.
She tentatively soaped up her bare arms but the women would
have none of it. They swiped the soap from her and lifted up her shirt to start
scrubbing vigorously at her back.
“And all of a sudden I’m standing there being washed by two,
old Filipino ladies and Kuya Luigi and Dylan come walking by and I just wave
and am like “Lets not talk about it”.
As Taylor relayed this story to us she had us all laughing
till it was hard to breathe.
-Kiera