Garrett's thoughts on his baptism day

 My Baptism

by Garrett Jones

I was waiting a long time for the baptism to start. In the car, I was annoying my mom asking every second by asking, “When will the baptism start?” We stopped at the store to buy white underwear in case you could see through the wet baptism clothes. When we got to the church, I was so excited. I was baptized at Uncle Bill’s church in Queen Creek, Arizona. Everything was set up when we got there. My dad and I put our white clothes on in the men’s bathroom. There was a poopy diaper in the bathroom by the white clothes.

We took a few pictures before the baptism started. Everyone started to come in like my cousins and grandpas and grandmas and aunts and uncles. We started the meeting with a song and an opening prayer. My big cousin Will gave a talk on baptism. Then my dad and I went into the font and my dad baptized me. I felt so warm and good. We got out of the font and looked the bag of supplies we had for the baptism and found no towels. So, we had to use paper towels to dry off. They worked pretty good. Then we put on our nice clothes. We went back into the room where the baptism was. I knew that I had already been baptized by water and was about to be baptized by fire as in the Holy Ghost. My cousin Katie Bollwinkle gave a talk on the Holy Ghost. They put a chair in front of all the others. I got to sit on it. All of my uncles, grandpas and my dad, came up an put their hands on my head and gave me the Gift of the Holy Ghost. I felt very warm and good. I tried to leave and forgot to give my dad a hug and shake hands with my grandpas and uncles. So, I had to go back up to do that.

Then it was Landon’s turn. Landon got a baby blessing right after my confirmation. I felt so proud of Landon. I felt so excited about getting baptized on the same day that Landon was blessed. Then I thought of my dad and Uncle Randall because they did the same thing. Uncle Randall was baptized on the same day that my dad was blessed.

After the baptism, we went to Aunt Vonda’s and went swimming and ate cake. I had a lot of fun at my aunt’s.