I am Baptised!

My name is Tanya and I live in Hastings, Hawkes Bay.  I have been going to the Mormon Church for quite a long time and I have two Church Missionaries that visit me every week and we have church lessons and read the bible and then we usually finish with a little prayer.  I really look forward to the missionsaries visits, we have fun together.

I decided I would like to get baptised so I can enter the kingdom of God when I die.  On 6 August 2011 I was baptised.  The elders had trouble getting me under the water because they kept leaning me backwards and I felt unsafe and scared.  They tried to get me under the water lots of times but they couldn't as I was feeling really scared.  In the end my Uncle came to help me.  He gave me some goggles for my eyes and I got baptised going under the water face down on my tummy.  This felt better for me.

After the ceremony we celebrated by going to Burger King which I enjoyed.  My mum and my aunties came to watch my baptism.  You can see me in the photo wearing a special white robe for a baptism ceremony.

One day I hope to go to the beautiful Mormon temple in Hamilton.  My dream is to hopefully one day find a special man and get married in the Temple.

Tanya