Sunday, August 28, 2011

Bonjour,

I had a good birthday today.  We had a good day at church.

When we got to church this morning, Stephen had forgotten to fill the baptistry.  So, he cleaned it out and started filling it.  By the end of the church service, the water was just above knee-deep on Joe.  He went ahead and baptized.  He just had to take everyone pretty low to get them completely wet.

The Sunday school classes did a good job in the church service this morning.  There are four different children’s classes.  Each class sang a song and quoted two verses.  The six and under class had a little trouble getting started, but once they got started, they did fine.

After church, Joe baptized seven people.  Two of the seven were Gilbert and Danny.  The water was cold.  Gilbert said, “Dad, when my head went under water, my feet started kicking because it was cold.”  When Joe asked Danny if he was saved, Danny had a tear in his eye as he said, “Yes Sir.”  When Danny was changing his clothes after getting baptized, he said, “Mom, I need to tell Dad thank-you.  That was the most specialest thing that ever happened to me.”  I was proud of my boys!  Bonnie wanted to know when she could get baptized.

Kristine put chicken in the crockpot for lunch.  We didn’t have to do much when we got home to get lunch ready.

After naps, we headed back to church.  Before church started, Bonnie wanted me to play a game with her.  She said that it was called “Dinkle, Dinkle.”  I told her that I did not know how to play it.  She told me that you write something on a paper and then say, “dinkle, dinkle.”  She is always coming up with something. The message tonight was a blessing and an encouragement.

I had several calls for my birthday and lots of Facebook greetings.  Thank you to everyone who remembered my birthday!  I definitely feel special.

A demain,

Joe, Laura, Gilbert, Danny, and Bonnie