Baptismal Bucket Brigade

Last Sunday Elders Kamara-Soire (far right) and Pasika (on blue water tank) had two baptisms scheduled. The water for the church compound was not working, and no one wanted to postpone the baptisms. Have no fear - this is Africa and we have buckets for hauling water. The tub on Elder Krupp's head held two buckets full of water per trip and one of our skinniest, smallest elders carried it, time after time after time on his head.
An international group: Elders Ekanem (Nigeria), Krupp (Idaho), Afangbedji (Togo), Quansah (Ghana), Ma'u (Tonga), Pasikala (Tonga, on tank), and Kamara-Soire (Sierra Leone)
They were posing for this picture since I didn't get it snapped Sunday when the water was being hauled. There were 5 young Elders, 1 old Elder, and 2 or 3 young men from the ward that helped with this project. It took two hours to fill the font. They really worked up a sweat in the hot Africa sun.
Elder Pasikala did the dipping and pouring to keep everyone supplied with water. Elder Quansah could haul the equivalent of 3 pink buckets in his dark green washtub. He told us he used to haul water for his grandmother every morning before school for 45 minutes per trip.
Many mornings he would make 2-4, 45 minutes trips in the dark before school for his grandmother.
Sister Krupp rewarding the Bucket Brigade with cinnamon rolls Thursday after our District Meeting. Elder Ma'u had mentioned that someone had made them Cinnamon Rolls a long time ago and he still remembered how good they had been. Linda has a real soft spot in her heart for Elder Ma'u (sounds like Meow, without the "e")