Tag's Baptism

Last weekend, Taggart was baptized a member of the church. He was really excited about this. He started things off by singing " The Things Jesus Asks of Me", singing really well and bringing the spirit to the service right from the start. Grandma PenGwen and Teagan gave the talks.

Mom did great, but I was most impressed with Teagan's talk, relating the Spirit to the sword of truth from the armor of God. He used the Samurai Code as well, finding great parallels between it and gospel truths. He talked about how when a Samurai baby boy is born, a sword is brought into the delivery room and presented to the child. We receive our sword of the Spirit when we are reborn through baptism. Teagan also talked in church this past Sunday and built upon his baptism talk. In it, he quipped that the sword at birth is pretty cool, especially since he wasn't allowed to even have a pocket knife until he was a Cub Scout! Teagan ended his talk for Taggart by saying, "And now, Taggart, today you get your sword."

Now to me, the cool thing in all of this was that I had NOTHING to do with it. Teagan came up with it all on his own! Awesome!

This is the only picture I took of Tag's special day, since I had to keep the girlies in control and try to keep Tanner from spending the afternoon outside climbing trees. As I get other pictures, I might add them-- Janille took a great one of Tag with his mountain of leis! But here we all are, after our regular church meetings.
I think Taggart would agree: 8 is Great!