Family picture! (And there's Grandma in the back.)
I asked Jill Tracy if she could play "Each Life That Touches Ours For Good" for me, in the prelude music. In my mission we sang that at every single baptism. (I remember singing it at a mission reunion and getting all choked up... and singing it in Relief Society when I was pregnant and pretty much bawling... darn hormones.) It wasn't part of the program, but I wanted to include it, just for me. It was just a small, sweet moment--a brief surge of emotion, the echo of Korean lyrics, and then getting back to the matter at hand, getting my daughter ready for her own baptism. Nobody else knew. But I appreciated Jill doing that for me.
Grandma Mary gave the talk on baptism, and Sister Campbell (who's been sitting with on Sundays to help me out with the kids, since Doug's on the stand) gave the talk on the Holy Ghost. Scott gave the opening prayer and Rebecca gave the closing prayer. It was a nice way to include everybody. And when we got home we skyped with my parents in Ohio. Thanks for sharing our special evening with us!
3 comments:
Yay Kate! It's amazing that she's 8 already.
What a special story about the song.
Sounds as if it was a lovely baptism. I hope Kate remembers it, or at least some of the feeling of it. And "Each Life That Touches Ours for Good" is one of my favourites, though we tend to save it for funerals (where, of course, no one has sung it often enough to do it justice!)
Congratulations to Kate! I'm glad that Grandma Mary was able to be there.
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