Another decent story
It may not be decent. I've been sick since Wednesday. My throat has swollen up. It really really hurts to swallow anything, so I haven't really eaten anything since Wednesday. 1 piece of chicken, 1 personal pan pizza, some coleslaw, and 2 biscuits; since Wednesday. It's also a challenge to drink stuff because it really hurts. But I think I'm on the down hill side now. I'm also about to be under 140 lbs for the first time in a while. Which is bad. But hopefully I'll be able to eat something tonight. Blah blah blah.
Last Sunday we had a good time at church. One of the boys in the Thursday night devotional decided to get baptized. So after church we drove over to the ocean. Well its really not the ocean ocean its more of an lagoon type of deal. They aren't any waves because the area is protected by the reefs 400 yards out. So its a nice calm area next to the park where a lot of people go and play. Samoans especially like it because its both calm and shallow. To we all drive over there and it eventually quits raining. Our preacher David walks out into the water with Ratana(?). It was low tide so the water immediately off the sand was not more than ankle deep. So they continued to walk out further. Unfortunately the water was still pretty shallow. From the land you could tell they needed another 50 yards or so until they his water that was worthy of a good CoC baptism.
I think David thought that one of the members said to stop; which they didn't. So David stopped in barely calf deep water and took Ratana's confessions. What happened next was a little weird. David started leaning Ratana back into the air eventually dipping into the water. But we could all see it wasn't going well. By the time Ratana was laying on his back the water was no deeper than 6 inches. Unfortunately Ratana's feet were about 11 inches long. So there in the distance
were Ratana's toes sticking out of the water and his shirt still floating on top. It looked bad. Everyone started laughing. Which had to be quite embarrassing for Ratana and David. So when Ratana gets to heaven hopefully he'll still have his toes. If not, he and Kunta-Kente can hang out.
Paul "its been a rough week" Murphy
Gus has managed to quit working again. That truck makes me want to cuss, a lot
It may not be decent. I've been sick since Wednesday. My throat has swollen up. It really really hurts to swallow anything, so I haven't really eaten anything since Wednesday. 1 piece of chicken, 1 personal pan pizza, some coleslaw, and 2 biscuits; since Wednesday. It's also a challenge to drink stuff because it really hurts. But I think I'm on the down hill side now. I'm also about to be under 140 lbs for the first time in a while. Which is bad. But hopefully I'll be able to eat something tonight. Blah blah blah.
Last Sunday we had a good time at church. One of the boys in the Thursday night devotional decided to get baptized. So after church we drove over to the ocean. Well its really not the ocean ocean its more of an lagoon type of deal. They aren't any waves because the area is protected by the reefs 400 yards out. So its a nice calm area next to the park where a lot of people go and play. Samoans especially like it because its both calm and shallow. To we all drive over there and it eventually quits raining. Our preacher David walks out into the water with Ratana(?). It was low tide so the water immediately off the sand was not more than ankle deep. So they continued to walk out further. Unfortunately the water was still pretty shallow. From the land you could tell they needed another 50 yards or so until they his water that was worthy of a good CoC baptism.
I think David thought that one of the members said to stop; which they didn't. So David stopped in barely calf deep water and took Ratana's confessions. What happened next was a little weird. David started leaning Ratana back into the air eventually dipping into the water. But we could all see it wasn't going well. By the time Ratana was laying on his back the water was no deeper than 6 inches. Unfortunately Ratana's feet were about 11 inches long. So there in the distance
were Ratana's toes sticking out of the water and his shirt still floating on top. It looked bad. Everyone started laughing. Which had to be quite embarrassing for Ratana and David. So when Ratana gets to heaven hopefully he'll still have his toes. If not, he and Kunta-Kente can hang out.Paul "its been a rough week" Murphy
Gus has managed to quit working again. That truck makes me want to cuss, a lot
posted by Paul Murphy at
3:02 PM
3 Comments:
SWEET picture!
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Justin and Heather Bland, at 10/01/2007 2:34 PM
Is this a picture that you took? I can only hope that when we get to heaven we don't get the body of our baptism, that water was cold.
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