Special Day

Ethan turned eight years old last Monday. (He got a bike! He ate lemon cake and Snickers ice cream! He was spoiled all around and felt very loved!)

In our religion, we baptize children by immersion at the age of eight. We believe that by age eight, children begin to have an understanding between right and wrong, and as a result, they begin to have accountability for their actions.

Also for this reason, Christian and I did not go into it with the assumption that Ethan would be baptized. At all. (We wanted him to choose for himself whether he wanted to be baptized.)

What happened was, about two or three months ago, we started having FHE (family night) lessons about baptism. One time we talked about Jesus being baptized even though he was perfect, and why He was baptized (to set an example for all of us). We talked about immersion, and why we do it that way (following Jesus' example). We talked about what it means to be baptized, and the promises we are making by being baptized, and the blessings we receive from being baptized. We talked about our experiences of being baptized. We shared why we believed it was important to be baptized. We let him know that we didn't expect him to do it, but we would feel happy and proud if he chose to be baptized.

Ethan said he was very excited, and he wanted to be baptized. Christian baptized him on Saturday.We are so proud of him and the choice he made to be baptized!