More Baptisms for the Dead

Today, the youth in the ward all went to The Oakland Temple to do Baptisms for the Dead. Me, Rick, Ryan, Jeremy, Dallin, Dewlin, Jeff, Tay, and the other youth met at the church, where we ate turkey sandwiches, chips, and brownies for dinner.

After eating and saying a prayer, we got into all our cars, and drove up to the Temple. Dewlin, Ryan, and I rode in Brother Ganschow's truck.

We got to The Oakland Temple at around 7:00 PM. We sat quietly in the Waiting Room, until we got the list of names of the people we were being baptized and confirmed for.

Most of our guys were from the late 1800's. Except Jeff was confirmed for a guy born in 1709. Other than that, we had some from the 1870's, some from the 1880's, and a whole bunch from 1899. Dallin and I had several guys from Mexico, 1899. Jeff and Tay had several guys from Livingston, Illinois, 1899. Jeremy and I had a couple guys from Argentina. Some of us had some guys from Massachusetts. I had a guy from Ohio. Ryan had a guy from England. Both Tay and Dallin had a few guys that were Christened on May 12, 1899, and May 12 is today. So these guys got baptized the same date they got Christened!

We finished the baptisms around 8:50. It felt good coming outside with the Temple and the San Francisco skyline lit up.

Anyway, we got back to Danville around 9:20. So, all-in-all, the baptisms were pretty successful. :)