BAPTISMS

Yesterday I participated in two baptisms.  In the morning, Dulcy was first married to her boyfriend and father of her daughter, then baptized.  One of the Relief Society sisters made her a beautiful bouquet of roses, and I made wedding cookies for refreshments.  Today she was confirmed a member of the Church in Sacrament Meeting.

In the evening, Farzareh was baptized.  It was odd how this came about.  The AP's got a phone call last Sunday from the Roseville Mission saying that an investigator had moved into our area and was ready to be baptized.  The sisters assigned to our ward asked me to go with them (not sure why) to visit her.  She's Iranian and had converted from Muslim to Christian about 5 years ago.  She was in an apartment with no furniture--we sat on the floor.  She's just undergone a divorce and was there with her two sons, handsome and charming boys.  She's living here temporarily, and has purchased a condo several miles away.  Her understanding was that she would be baptized in the Roseville Mission on Saturday night (last).  She was actually baptized in the ward where her condo is, which is in our mission but in an adjoining stake.  I drove the biking sisters.  Sister Agavale played the piano and I led the music.  One of our elders baptized her (his first), and the bishop from her old area in Roseville spoke.  It was one of the sweetest baptisms I've attended.  I think her sons will be right behind her.

In between baptisms, Judy Sisco and I saw Les Mis.  It's still, in my opinion, one of the finest things written about the nobility of the human spirit.  The movie version followed the Broadway production very closely, and I wasn't disappointed.

An emotional, uplifting, satisfying day.