Roger that. I bet a dip in that frigid water was literally breath taking, and an experience you will never forget. I was a former catholic, and got saved about 6 months before I went to Vietnam. I actually stayed with the catholic church for awhile. I went to mass a few more times, but as I read my Catholic Bible, I could see that even the catholic Bible didn't agree with the catholic church. I replaced it with another Bible. I was baptized in the swimming pool at Bien Hoa Air Base, Vietnam, by a Southern Baptist Chaplain, even though, at that time, I did not even know what a Southern Baptist was, because as a catholic, I knew nothing about any other denominations. I was 21 at the time. I kind of thought the whole world revolved around me, and I thought if I, as a catholic, could find the truth of the real Jesus, as opposed to the Jesus of the cult religions, that millions of people in the catholic church would come out of it and be saved. Obviously, that did not happen, and unfortunately, on these threads, I see the cults are still alive and well. Oh well, they have been warned.
I stayed for 6 years as a weekly participant, not knowing of any other locally that i thought worthy of commitment, but it was mainly evangelical radio (which was better then) that fed my soul that hungry to know who to please God from the Bible. That was what was alive. I had yet believed the Eucharist, but receiving it, which i was tried to do as worthily, made no difference in me, or others from what i observed. And it was almost always among evangelicals outside Rome that i found spiritual life and fellowship in Christ. And still do, thanks be to God!