Baptism

Friday night was Valia's baptism.  It was AWESOME!  Our friend Miroslav baptised her - you can see by the pictures that they seem to get along pretty well.  Also a picture of them and the missionaries and President Markelov and one of the two of them with Mom and our local Area Authority Seventy Elder Reshetnikov.   He is a wonderful man and gave a great talk on the Holy Ghost.  President Markelov spoke on baptism.  I got asked to bear my testimony which I did...the spirit really supported me.  Valia was touched and we got all mushy for a few minutes.  Then, after the closing prayer, President Markelov came up to me and asked me to say shhhhhhhhhh.  He then said the correct way to pronounce the word "that" in Russian is "shhhhhhow", like a movie show...not "stow".  "Stow" means 100.  So, what I had actually said was "I know 100..." rather than "I know that..."  I thanked him and then said that everyone knew what I meant, right?  He said, of course, you're American!

It's good to have friends. Since he's going to be my new boss I have to be nice to him.