Tate’s baptism. So much to say. Once again with Covid everything has changed and nothing is happening the same way it once was. Church is still online and the church has set some new guidelines for baptisms. Actually the guidelines kept changing. They went from only allowing 4 people, including the child being baptized and the one doing the baptizing, and then they said we could have siblings, then they changed and said we could have 10 guests. A week later it went to 30 and within another week it went back to 10. It honestly was all over the place for a month or so before his baptism. Bishop had mentioned we could just do it at our home in the pool and then we wouldn’t have to worry so much about how many guests but for a couple of different reasons I wasn’t sure how I felt about that. Eventually though it felt right and when I knew that Bishop was totally on board that’s what we decided to do. We were going to have the meeting in our home anyway so why not do the baptizing in the back yard?! We felt like it might really be a neat and unique and special experience that Tate would always remember. We had Tory speak on baptism and my dad spoke on the Holy Ghost. We had all of the cousins sing Tate’s Favorite Song.. I will be what I believe. We had my family, Toby’s family, and the Ashby family there. It was hard because part of me was really looking forward to keeping it extremely simple and focusing on the baptism with just our family and Grandparents but at the same time I understood everyone wanting to be there. I think it’s just that since Covid everything has become so much simpler (yet more complicated if that makes sense) and anything that requires much effort seems extremely overwhelming! I knew doing food for everyone would add to my stress but it all turned out really nice. I was a little concerned with being able to keep the spirit in my home with all the little kids and if I’m being honest there were a few tears from me after it just wondering if it all went alright but I think it did. I hope Tate felt the spirit and will remember this day and I’m so grateful for Toby being a worthy priesthood holder and being able to baptize our son. Pretty special day for a pretty incredible little 8 year old.
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