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First of all, it turns out that the water in the font wasn't very warm—Bruce says it was just approaching luke-warm. After Bruce said the baptism ordinance words and he moved to dunk Jessica under the water, for some reason she moved her hand and didn't plug her nose. She was already moving down fast, so Bruce couldn't get her back up and try again, so down she went. I was standing where I could see her face and she looked a little panicked and her mouth was open, too. I wonder if maybe she opened her mouth to say something. Anyway, she went under the water with her mouth and nose open—and her eyes wide open, too. Then she started flailing her legs like crazy, and so Bruce started shoving her down to make sure she got good and baptized before she came back up. This all happened in about a second, although Mom viewed it all in slow motion. In spite of all that, Jessica didn't need to go under a second time, and she got a huge hug from Dad when she was all done.
The bishopric member who was there said he'd never seen so much kicking at a baptism, and several people (who were not as close to the scene as I was) also thought that she was pretty funny. When I explained what happened we all had a smile and a "Poor Jessica!" together.
But she survived it very well, and now Jessica is an official member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I guess my baby isn't a baby any more.
2 comments:
Way to go Jessica!
That baptism would have been priceless to have seen.
That's exciting! Poor Jessica though. :)
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