A wonderful day for Baptisms

The pictures above are (Left picture) Elder Williams, Dad (Kenton - Elder Anderson), and Elder Briggs. They taught Kennedy. Kennedy is in the next picture. Kennedy wanted Dad to baptized him.


The picture below and to the right is dinner at our apartment with Lula, far right, (she is investigating the church and from Ethopia, (she just committed to be baptized), She came to church today for the first time and came to dinner afterwards. Next to Lula is elder Peart, Elder Hicken, Dan, a new member , Milan (who was baptized November 21, 2009, (the same day as Kennedy, Sister Tate and Sister Wheeler, and Dad (Kenton) back right. The picture to the right is Elder Williams, Dad (Kenton) and Elder Briggs just before Kennedy's baptism on Nov. 21.


Below is the train that we took to go to Lubimer's baptism. First we walked to the Metro and across town to the Train station to get on the train. It was a very modern two story train. We enjoyed seeing the beautiful country side as we road together with about 15 people on the way to Lubimer's baptism. e came to dinner after going to Church for the first time. Ken is back at the left. We had a nice spiritual thought about the importance of eternal families and the purpose of temples.

Above I'm sitting in the train on our way to Lubimer's baptism. The train has two stories and was really nice.

The ride was smooth and it was great to be there with members of the branch and some of the young missionaries.

As Lubimer walked down into the river, two large white swans came swimming down the river and stopped right by the baptism. The Swans seemed to be signs from Heaven telling Lubimer and all of us how pleased Heavenly Father was. It was the most beautiful sight.

Lubimer said that the swans represented the two beautiful sister missionaries that taught him the gospel, Sister Austin and Sister Magidson, along with all the other people that had helped him. Dad and I were able to help teach Lubimer several times. We also helped him pack up his belongings and then visited him in his new cottage. We visited him at the hospital after he had hip surgery. He is a Kingdom Builder, a wonderful person who has a very gentle spirit. He use to be the Minister of Defense in the Czech Republic.

It was a great baptism. Lubimer is such a wonderful person. He's very thankful to have found the gospel and we are thankful to have an eternal friend.