11/15/2009

This is a very, very old draft of mine. But reading it brought to mind details that I forgot, and generally warmed my heart. My baptism is one of my favorite memories, and I'm happy to have these little scraps of that day. This is a chatlog, and beneath it is my journal entry for that day. Enjoy, future me.



me: hey!

 Timothy: SUP

 me: I JUST HAD THE COOLEST THING EVER HAPPEN TO ME AND I WANT TO TELL EVERYONE IN THE WORLD

8:42 PM Timothy: AND?????

8:43 PM me: Ok this will take a minute.

8:44 PM Timothy: was it something cool like getting baptized?

8:45 PM me: jerk

  wait it's bigger than that

  wait

 Timothy: jack did it

 me: I know

  it's bigger than that!!!!

  shut up!

 Timothy: FINE

8:49 PM me: So lately I was so mad and so frustrated and hating food and i started making myself throw up and it was only since last night but I sort of felt like I was on the edge of something. And tonight at Flatirons God was totally telling me I don't have to go there and I don't have to wait until things are unbearable to stop. And this morning in the lesson one of the verses was that one you always beat me with about my body is a temple. and tonight I totally just felt God telling me to let it go and how I can just make the choice to stop it all and i thought of how tehre's struglling with stuff vs wallowing in it. And they said again how it's baptism day. and i was like oh shoot because like i said before God telling me to get baptized again like last year was the clearest thing from God I had ever heard and tonight I was like no i'm not gonna do it and during Marvelous Light God was bugging me about throwing up and I was thinking about how cheesy and lame it would be to give it up then. And Jim was talking about making God the centre of your life and how that's the best plan ever and I was like okay and I prayed and there was another song and he said come get baptized if you want and i was like deciding okay we're just going to leave and it'll be fine. And sara said "I'm getting baptized" and so I decided to too, and then Jack came over and saw me in line and was like "YOU ARE AWESOME" and I asked him to baptize me and he was like sure and we waited in a long line while they were playing music. and when it was my turn they were playing marvelous light again and i was like holy crap no way. it was awesome. and it was just so incredible and I'm so happy.

8:51 PM Timothy: that's awesome

I got baptized tonight!! It was so amazing. It's hard to write about now, everything is so fresh in my mind. Jack is an incredible friend. He was 1 of 3 who baptized me: Pastor @ Flatirons and my dad being the others. He hugged me like 52 times we were both so happy and excited about it. After one of them he just left his arm on my shoulder. And I wasn't uncomfortable which is pretty much a first. God jut did such cool things. He got me to turn from a habit I had just started with. I prayed lastnight something about if Jack does indeed care to show it to me and he did. It's been an awesome 24 hours.