I had the privilege of attending the baptism of Abri Lochner, an 18 year old girl who works at Underwater Audio with Jessica and Michael. She was taking the lessons from the sister missionaries but she had a lot of questions, so she asked them of Michael at work and he answered them as best he could. That's why she chose him to baptize her and also to give the talk on the Holy Ghost. His talk was humble and spiritual. He told a story about how he was praying to know if he should be doing the baptism and the Spirit said to him, "You have been commissioned of Jesus Christ." So then he knew he should do it.
Abri also spoke and said that everyone had warned her that Satan would try her the last week before her baptism so she listened to lots of Motab! She also used the analogy of the mustard seed, that if you have just a grain of faith it will grow if nourished. She said the same thing is true of doubt. If you have just a grain of doubt, Satan can make it grow. But she didn't even have a grain of doubt! She had to wait until age 18 to get baptized without her parents' consent. Her boyfriend, who has been going to BYU Idaho, gave Jason Dodge a ride to Corvallis so he got to attend the baptism too. I hope he'll be attending a lot of baptisms in Las Vegas!
On Sunday Jason came with the Brewsters to our ward. He and Grandpa went in the Gospel Doctrine class where they participated in a small group discussion and Jason was the spokesperson for it. He went with the Elders to Priesthood. Then they came over to Sunday dinner. Jessica and I demonstrated the Family Tree program. Then Jason borrowed a bike so they could go bike riding together.
He'll be a fine missionary. He's not afraid to speak up. He already looks like one!
We went to Gideon's pinewood derby race. Neil and Grandpa created his car. It looked a little like Uncle Ken's van. He ran it in 3 heats and came in 1st, 2nd and 3rd. He was more interested in making shadows on the screen where they showed the scores. But he had fun and got lots of cheers.
