Anya's Baptism

While I was braiding Anya's hair in preparation for her baptism, reminded her about the Gift of the Holy Ghost. I told her that it will take some time to understand how He speaks to her. But that He speaks either in feelings or to words in her mind. Anya then said, He speaks to my mind. I asked her when she had heard the Holy Ghost before. Anya said that once at night when her room was messy, she was scared that the world's biggest spider was hiding in the stuff on the floor. She said that she prayed and that the Holy Ghost spoke words into her head that said, the spider is not there and it is ok, and then she did not feel scared anymore.

When we got to the Church we set up our stuff and waited for the Bishopric member to arrive. Then we began the service. Adam gave a talk about baptism, Johnny said the opening prayer and Rachel, Anya, and Kate sang "The Family is of God". We went to the Baptistry next and John baptized Anya. Anya got dried off and dressed very quickly. Kate gave the talk on the Holy Ghost, and then Anya was given the Gift of the Holy Ghost and a blessing.

Anya's blessing told her to learn the stories in the scriptures and get to know them well. She was told that if she did this, she would be able to help a lot of people. Her blessing also told her to really pray and speak to Heavenly Father.

Afterwards the primary president and the member of the Bishopric welcomed her as the newest member. Then we went home and ate a lot of dessert that we prepared for the after baptism celebration.