This has been a glorious day! We awoke early this morning, 5 am to be exact. We quickly dressed and ate our breakfast so that we could pick up a young lady, Alicia Patterson, a new convert and take her and other troops to the temple. We took her and Kayla Westbrook in our car to the temple. We had a nice visit with them while traveling. After our arrival, we entered the temple and was able to perform the ordinances of baptism and conformation for the dead. Both these young women hold a limited use temple recommend, which allows them to do only certain ordinances in the temple. As they grow and mature in the gospel, they will then be given the opportunity to do other temple ordinances.

 Alicia and Kayla - Alicia's first temple experience

 After our temple work was completed, we ate lunch at the Lizard's Thicket; we then headed home. After dropping the young ladies off, we ran some errands on post and then went directly to the Augusta Ward building to attend the Baptism of Brother Kristopher Sanders. Sister Gowans was to play the piano and Elder Gowans was to speak on the topic of the Holy Ghost. As we waited for the baptism to begin, we were able to visit with President Cottle who was in town to interview all the missionaries in our Zone. The baptismal service was wonderful; very spiritual and very uplifting.

Crystal and Kristopher Sanders, Joshua and Catherine Anderson

After the baptism, Elder Meyer and Elder Gowans drove over to pick up a young lady, Saundra Cheeks, who was to be taught that evening there at the church. We had a real nice discussion with her and had the opportunity to have President and Sister Cottle involved in the discussion as well. 

It has been a wonderful day, full of wonderful events.We are very tired and look forward to a good night's rest.