A few months ago Mom and I went to a beautiful new chapel which had just opened. It was the the small city of Moctezuma adjacent to a larger city, Tuxtepec, Oaxaca. We looked around at the freshly painted walls, the newly stained and unscarred woodwork, the large building-sized paintings. It was a very beautiful building. We went into the Relief Society room. At one end was the baptismal font. We were accompanied by the building custodian who is also the stake president. I opened up the doors to the font and looked in. The floor of the font was covered with hundreds of fat, juicy looking spiders. HUNDREDS! Maybe half of them were dead. I admit that I am not really a spider guy, but that aside, it was really gross. The custodian commented that he needed to clean out the font.


One of the assignments our missionaries have is to clean the font before a baptism. They really must do that. Here is Elder Baas hard at it preparing for a baptismal service later in the day.