Baptizing Stanislaus

One of the highlights of this month was when one of our students, Stanislaus, obeyed the gospel. Stanislaus had long contemplated baptism and at the beginning of the year we thought that he was going to be the first. Like so many students Stanislaus arrived here dead broke without much prospect of getting any support from home. He approached me wanting to know whether I could give him a job and all I could offer him was to look after my garden which he has done faithfully, watering the small patch of lawn and the small flower beds every morning before going to classes. On Saturdays he cleans the yard and does odd jobs around the house. Although his formal school education, like that of most of our students from the rural areas, is very sketchy, he has been zealous to learn, enrolling in an elective penmanship class I offered at the beginning of the year.

By Jerry D’Alton