More on Samuel's baptism

This is the vest and bow tie I made Samuel for his Baptism! What a handsome boy!!

Samuel and Aaron before the baptism.Aunt Erica and Uncle Trace

Eli, Marjorie and James (after the baptism)

Nathan, Leslie, Josiah, Jarom and Sadie

Dean and Dawnie. Dad had gone to see the dermatologist the day before and had his nose "whittled" on, so he had to have a bandaged nose for the baptism.

Jacque, Tia, Calista, Ellen, Sarah, and Samuel

Okay, for those of you who want to hear the story I left you hanging on, here it is. James was asked to give a talk on the Holy Ghost. When he prayed to know what to talk on, the Spirit told him to talk about Josiah. Josiah was made a king at age 8 years old. His dad and grandpa were very wicked men, and the Lord wanted to destroy the people of Judea, but since Josiah was so good, the Lord told Josiah he wouldn't destroy the people in Josiah's day. Josiah went to the temple one day and had someone read the book of commandments to him. Then he rent his garments and covenanted with the Lord that he would keep the commandments. (At this point, James rent (tore off) his white shirt! And in front of everyone there!!) Luckily for us, James had on another white shirt underneath :) (more on that later). We then learned that Josiah had all of his people come to the temple and make the same covenant! After that, the talk was on how important it was to keep our covenants that we make. It was a wonderful talk, and I don't think anyone will forget it.

I wish James would've let me know what his plans were for his talk, because I had a hard time fully concentrating on his talk for the first part. You see, he didn't look quite right. For one thing, his tie wasn't up to par. James is usually dressed very nicely, and his tie is always perfect. However, this time, his tie wasn't real snug around his neck. I figured he must've had a cold and maybe his neck had swelled up. But as I was looking at his neck, it almost looked like he had two collars on. But then how could someone put on two white shirts and not notice? I kept looking back and forth from the two collars to his tie and finally decided I was going to have to talk to Aaron later and see if he noticed something odd. Then he ripped off his first shirt. He had on his white shirt and another tie underneath. That is why the top tie wasn't tied very neatly.

Supposedly I wasn't the only one who noticed. When James walked into the Relief Society room, Leslie told Nathan to go fix James' tie. As Nathan went up to help his father look presentable, James warded him off, telling him to mind his own business. Marjorie was busy playing the piano when James walked in, so a little later she happened to look back at James, and she tried to tell him to fix his collar. (I'm guess that James must've gotten dressed into the second shirt after arriving at the church). Again, James had to tell her that he had everything under control. Mom and dad had noticed something different too. When I talked to James later, he figured that all the ladies would notice, but not the men. When I did get a chance to talk to Aaron, he said he hadn't noticed anything!

I exercised with Shelby today, and she said she also won't forget singing Christmas songs with Marjorie as the pianist. She said it was so fun to sing the Christmas songs up to speed!