We are so happy Elsie was able to be baptized and become an official member of our church. She also received The Gift of the Holy Ghost a comforter and guide whom we believe will help her through out her life. When we are baptized we wear all white to symbolize purity. It is a tradition for little girls to get a white dress but it is not necessary because we know Adah did not get a white dress when she was eight. But we got Elsie a white dress and she has been happily wearing it ever since. It was an amazing morning. Adah's mom flew out to be here and all of Elsie's family that live here and could make it came. She had lots of friends there too. We had a quiet service with just our family and friends. Elsie was able to pick the speakers, music and prayers all by herself. She had her daddy's cousin Lyndi sing the song, What Heaven Sees in You, about a girl as she grows and is dressed in white three times, as a special musical number. Elsie was baptized and came out of the water smiling and could not stop smiling for quite a while. She said it made her so happy to be baptized. We had some refreshments after the service and visited with people and had a nice time.
It was a perfect day! The only thing I might have changed was I wish I had taken even more photos!! But sometimes these things need to be remembered in our hearts and memories not just in a digital image.
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