She was an hour late for her baptism, but everyone waited for her. It was still a perfect night.
We had a the baptism scheduled for 7. Fruit was cut, cake was iced, and the primary was all there for the musical number. We had a little 8yr girl getting baptized at the same service and so when 7:20 came around and Sara still hadn't shown up we started with out her. The whole baptism went super smooth, and right as the bishopric member was saying his closing remarks Sara called. She asked what was wrong because she noticed we had called so many times. We just asked if she was coming to her baptism and she said that she was just around the corner.
She came in totally bummed, and as she started crying. She went to the bathroom to change and broke down. "This is the biggest night of my life, and I screwed it up. God is so sad that I messed up my baptism night." It was so cute, and sad to see her so sad for thinking she screwed everything up.
We told everyone that she was here, and they waited for her to get changed. The baptism went super smooth, and after she was baptized in her testimony she said that she totally forgot how sad she had just been. She bore her testimony that she was Gods daugther, and that she knew this church was true. She said that as she has been investigating the church she found her child within and that she knew that through the power of the atonement she was able to feel so happy again. It was a great night.
She was a self contact when I was serving with Sister Hancok. She dissapeard for about a month, but a couple weeks ago she came to church, and and been to church ever since for 5 weeks. She is so great. We are such good friends, and I feel so lucky to have seen her grow and change its so inspiring. :) She was originally supposed to get baptized in a couple weeks, but she was too busy and so she surprised us and asked us if she could get baptized this week.
It such an amazing experience beign a missionary. You learn and grow in such uncomfortable ways, but its all so worth it because you get to see miracles like Sara everyday.
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