Jonah's Baptism

Jonah's baptism was this past Saturday, on January 8th, 2011. The missionaries started to fill up the font at 11:00 in the morning and his baptism wasn't until 4:00 that evening, but it took that long for the font to fill up. And of course, during that 5 hours the hot water heater couldn't heat it all up, so at 3:00 we went to the church to help the missionaries boil water and dump it in the font. It was a pretty fun experience. I even typed up and printed off the program myself. Being in a branch is a learning experience!
The jumper Jonah is wearing is an extra small. Our branch didn't have any extra extra small. I'm not sure if that size is even made. It was pretty long on Jonah, but he didn't mind.
Strangely enough, a brother in the ward informed us that was the first time he'd ever seen that Plexiglas partition in front of the font. The last baptism was in September, so it is brand new since then. I guess the branch president realized if we were to have Jonah baptized here he didn't want the rest of our children in the font as well. Haha, probably a very smart thing to do.
Unfortunately, Jared was asleep on the ground for the whole baptism, so we don't have him in any pictures. :(
Here is one with Matt's parents in it. Matt's mom gave the talk on Baptism and I gave the talk on the Holy Ghost. It went really, really good. I'm so grateful to be in such a small branch that is overall very caring and supportive. I think just about everyone that could be there showed up, which was just about the whole branch, and most of them volunteered to bring a snack for after it was over. These are actually all the pictures I took! I'm not the greatest at remembering to take pictures.

Jonah said the water was just right and warm, so all those pots sure paid off! We are very proud of Jonah! I miss teaching him in junior primary, but I know his teacher in senior primary will learn from him being she's a brand new member herself!