On Sunday instead of having a church service we went to a hot spring and had baptisms. Three people were baptized and we spent about three hours there to play in the water and have a good time. The bus ride there was about two hours and the whole way we sang and played games. After singing for a while Pastor Raul, who is the pastor of the church I attend, started playing a game. We passed an empty water bottle around while he counted to three. If you had the bottle when he got to three you had to do a little dance in the aisle of the bus. I did have to do this once, and believe me it was not easy. Everyone on the bus sang a song while the person did motions, not only did I not know the dance but I couldn't understand the song. Also dancing in the aisle of a moving bus is not the easiest thing in the world.
The hot spring was a little shallow pool. It was a little higher than my knees all the way across.
When we arrived people started milling about setting up shade.
Then we were ready for the baptisms.
The first woman was Edith. She is from the small home group my partner and I lead. I was so excited to see her get baptized.
Pastor Raul's sister also was baptized.
And her fiance.
Overall it was a great day.
