Before the pumpkin carving, the movie watching or the candy eating, we got to spend the morning of Halloween doing something infinitely better than celebrating a fun holiday.
Winnie chose to be baptized. And since her baptism is in 2020, things are a little different. Rather than having a big stake baptism with lots of people in attendance, our stake has given the wards and families the reins when it comes to the scheduling of the ordinance and the program. Everyone wore masks. We helped sanitize the chairs and piano before and after our event. (Two more kids from our ward were baptized later that day.)
After we had consulted everyone's calendars, we offered two dates for Winnie's baptism: October 17 or October 31. She thought getting baptized on Halloween sounded like the perfect day, so we let everyone know we'd be doing that at 10 a.m. on October 31.
It was an intimate event. We had all four grandparents, her one great-grandparent, one great-aunt, one aunt, her sisters, her parents, her bishop, her Primary president and two people from the stake in attendance. Seth, Grandpa Scott and Grandpa Dennis stood in the circle while she was confirmed. Winnie picked the songs but left the rest of the program up to us.
It was beautiful. It was spiritual. It was perfect.
