Great to be 8

On his Eighth birthday, Oshyn chose (with a great amount of enthusiasm and desire) to be baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.  What this ultimately means is that he made a covenant, or two-way promise, with our Heavenly Father/God to take upon himself the name of Jesus Christ (try his hardest to be like Him), keep His commandments, and serve Him to the end.

Oshyn has been waiting for this day for not only days, weeks or months, but years!  He could hardly stand how excited he was to take this big step in his life.  We were so proud of him for all the efforts he took to prepare himself to learn all he could before this day.

 We invited all to come!

He wrote his testimony for the cover of his program for the day.

Grammie and Grandad gave him a nice word picture that we displayed and he received many wonderful and kind cards from family & friends.

I gave the talk on Baptism and Beau baptized him.  Then Uncle Ralph gave a talk on the Holy Ghost and Beau gave him the gift of the Holy Ghost.

 (He really wanted to match Beau and specifically asked for a matching tie.  Boy were they handsome!)

We had a nice gathering of friends and family afterwards with much help and prep from Grandma Annie, Aunt Marianne, Uncle Roger, the Panttaja's, and Uncle Chad.

Uncle Chad flew in from the East coast for this very special occasion.  To say I was surprised when he knocked on our door would be a major understatement.  MAJOR.  He will never.ever.ever. know how much that meant to me and Oshyn to have him here for that weekend.  I love my brother to the core.

We finished the day with a long journal entry that Oshyn dictated to me and I wrote.  Classic and priceless.  What a day.  I cannot believe my biggest baby is EIGHT!!