“Soren! When you get baptized, you make three special promises with Heavenly Father. And this ordinary Kit Kat candy bar can help you remember these three promises.
“The 'K' in Kat stands for Keep His Commandments.
When you get baptized, you promise to do your best to follow Jesus’ example. You promise to keep all of His commandments, and when you make a mistake, you repent and promise to try to do better next time.
“The 'A' stands for Always Remember Him.
Wherever we are, we can be good examples and share the gospel with others. We can always remember Him by doing service and showing love to people in need.
“And the 'T' stands for Take His Name Upon You.
After you get baptized, you will be a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints. You can take His name upon you by doing things that Jesus would want you to do to build up the kingdom of God. Another example is when you go on a mission, and you become a missionary, you will receive a name tag with your name on it but as well as Jesus'.
“We hear these same phrases during the sacrament prayer each Sunday. Keep His commandments, always remember Him, and take His name upon you. When I take the sacrament each week I can repent for my sins and I get to renew my baptismal covenants. And after you are baptized you will be too. But on Sunday the most important thing we remember is that Jesus suffered for our sins, He died for us, and was resurrected so that we could all live again someday.
“After I was baptized, I felt so clean and peaceful. After my baptism, I tried SO hard to be good and follow His commandments but unfortunately, we all make mistakes so that following Sunday I had to repent of my wrong choices. The good thing about repentance is that once you repent, you are made clean again, and you feel as good as you will after baptism today. Even though it can be difficult to admit I made a mistake or need to change, I LOVE to repent because I feel great once the weight of sin is off my shoulders.
“Our Heavenly Father loves us so much that whenever we make a promise to Him, He makes a promise right back to us. This is called a two-way promise or a covenant. Heavenly Father will never break His promise, and we need to try every single day never to break our promises to Him. He also promises that you will be able to have the Holy Ghost with you.
“Today Heavenly Father also will make some promises with you. He promises to accept you as a member of His church. He promises that He will forgive you for your mistakes and wrong choices - that is if you are sorry for what you did and repent. He promises that you can always have His Spirit with you.
“I’d like to bare my testimony, that I know that your decision to be baptized into this church is Heavenly Father's plan for you. I know that you are on the righteous path to eternal and everlasting life. I know this is the true church of God and I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.”
(ADD PHOTO OF Quincy’s talk here)
Soren loved having grandma and grandpa Lawrence there. They gave him taffy and some CTR socks.
We celebrated at Marketplace Grill (which holds an infamous post-baptism family inside joke for the Willardson family). The kids loved the flaming queso, chocolate messes, and butter soaked bread! Corbin had us all in tears laughing at his reaction when he stealthily reached across the table with a chip to dive into what he thought was a bowl of queso on my plate....only to shovel a chip into his mouth that was loaded heavily with honey mustard! 😂😂😂
It was a special day. Soren is such a good example to our family. He is a righteous follower of our Savior, and a radiant light to our whole family.
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