[sourdough]

Does your heater have a plastic plug in it or a metal one (with the anode rod inside)? If it is the metal one you should have a Suburban water heater and it will have a secondary switch on the left inside the water heater outside access. Inside do you have both the electric and LP switches turned on? If so, when you turned on the LP switch did you hear the water heater fire up on gas? If the LP side is working correctly you should still get hot water even if the electric element is fried.