Immersion (sins and submersion)

Olive B. at her Baptism

When baptized you plug your nose and someone with the priesthood dunks you under your water and your sins go rushing away – I don’t know where. But you have to make sure that your whole body goes under water or else the sins will rush to that one part that is still above the water.

The following was told by Brother Lyons, a member of bishopric:

We must live worthy to recognize inspiration of the Holy Ghost.

One day his wife was in the kitchen cutting with a large knife- chopping- when suddenly she had the thought that their five year old son was in danger by a pool. He didn’t know how to swim, so if this was true, he would be in danger. There was only one pool in the neighborhood so Sister Lyons ran to this home and into the back yard where she saw her son submerged under water. He had one arm extended out of the waters. She bent over and grabbed hold of that hand and pulled her son out of the water before any serious drowning damage was done. She will be eternally grateful for the Holy Ghost’s warning and her receptiveness to the call.

Also from Brother Lyons.



I was watching a football game and a voice said Tommy is in trouble. I continued watching, but again the voice said, Tommy is in trouble. I went outside and found Tommy laying on the ground. He had fallen off his skateboard and was not wearing a helmet. The impact of the fall, his head hitting the ground had completing knocked him out, he lay unconscious. He rushed to the hospital where they took and xray and say bleeding in his head. We wanted to take him home and the doctor said we could only if we agreed to wake him up every hour to make sure he was alright. We agreed, but before leaving the hospital our hometeaching and I gave Tommy a blessing in which it was promised that he would be healed. We followed to doctor’s instructions overnight and returned to the hospital the next day. They took another set of xrays. And when the doctor looked at then he said, These must be the wrong xrays. They took another set and the bleed was completely gone. Tommy was healed.

Sept 2009 Olive Blair’s Baptism