Saturday, August 22, 2015

Last night we were able to attend the Baltimore Orioles' and the Minnesota Twins' baseball game.  It was Mormon night at the stadium and tickets could be bought for $8 each.  President Christiansen bought tickets for all the missionaries and we were all seated together at the end of the left field foul line.

Irene and I took the light rail from North Linthicum to Camden Yards.  Camden Yards is right in front of the baseball stadium.  The senior price for tickets, round trip, was $1.40 each.  Sometimes it pays to be old.  There was no way I wanted to drive to downtown Baltimore, so the light rail worked out great.

We left the game at 9:00 p.m., when the Orioles were up 3 to 1 after a home run hit by Gerardo Parra.  By the time we got home at 10:00, the game was over and the Twins had won it 4-3.  What happened?  Uh, you can read about in the papers.

This morning was our weekly coordination meeting with Brother Klecz, after which we drove to Glen Burnie for the baptism of Troy Boss.  Elder Burrup asked us to show a couple of videos in the 10 minutes prior the the baptism starting.  The following are the two we selected.

Video 1:  http://media2.ldscdn.org/assets/mormon-channel/mormon-messages-2011/2011-05-009-child-of-god-720p-eng.mp4?download=true

Video 2:  http://media2.ldscdn.org/assets/scripture-and-lesson-support/the-life-of-jesus-christ-bible-videos/2011-10-024-the-baptism-of-jesus-720p-eng.mp4?download=true

It was a wonderful experience to attend.  Brother Boss has one leg and is paralyzed from the chest down.  It was a little tricky getting him into the font.  The elders picked him up out of his wheel chair and sat him on the font steps.  Then Brother Boss kind of slid down the steps to Brother Wright who baptized him.  Brother Wright had to kneel on one leg in the water with Brother Boss sitting on the other leg.  All went well.  After the baptism, brother Wright just carried brother Boss back to the font steps, where Elders Burrup and Moore helped him back into his wheel chair.

We went home right after the baptism for a quick bite to eat before going over to President Christiansen's to go over the menu for next week's zone conferences.  Sister Christiansn asked Irene to help with the luncheons for the three zone conferences this week.  Sloppy Joe's for two conferences and sliced ham for the other one. Yum!  You know Irene.