Alex was baptised on July 17 in the East China sea at Toguchi Beach, Okinawa. It was really neat experience for him and everyone who was able to be there. We started at 11:00 because of the tide schedule and we were so thankful the sun was shinning as it had been raining all week. And shinning the sun was! Combined with the intense humidity, we were all completely soaked before Alex even got in the water! We had two talks. One was on baptism and although Becca and I read it, Alex's grandparents provided the talk. Alex loved that they were able to be there in a small way and he held a picture of them as we were reading the talk. We also had a talk on the Holy Ghost by the Primary President.
Alex was baptised and confirmed on the beach and we had a lunch afterwards. We had about 20 members of our branch come. All in all, it was a great day. We recorded the talk portions of the service and will post it when I can get Pete to get on it :)
I posted a lot of pictures because these will likely be our family pictures for 2010. We usually try to take our family picture in the fall / early winter of each year but since Pete is going to be gone soon until mid 2011 this will be the family pics for 2011 ;)
4 comments:
What great pics but they make me miss you even more, if that's possible! We gotta do something about this halfway around the world stuff. Just not happening for me. : ( Can't wait for November. Love you all!
Love you guys too! This whole summer we've had plenty of homesick type moments. November is going to be fabulous!
What an awesome memory for all of you!!
These made me cry! How we miss you. Congrats Alex. We wish we could've been there.
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