Thursday, January 19, 2017

My Baptism Book (Handout)

My Baptism

By ______________________
Date ____________________

(Picture)

My name is ___________________________. My birthday is _________________________ and on my birthday I will be ___________ years old.

This birthday will be very special because when I am __________ years old, I will be old enough to be _______________________________________.

This book is the story of my baptism and why it is special to me.

In the Bible read Matthew 3:13-17


Who is in this picture? _________________________ and ________________________________.

Why did Jesus come to John the Baptist? ________________________________________________________________________________

Where are they standing? ___________________________________________________________

Why was Jesus baptized? ___________________________________________________________

I want to be baptized because ________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________.

Are babies baptized in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints? ______________________

How old do you have to be to be baptized? _________________

Can a person who is older than eight be baptized if that person is converted to the church? ________

Read Doctrine and Covenants 20:73

By whom can we be baptized?

"The person who ________________________________ and has ________________________ from ____________________________. . ."

I will be baptized by __________________________________________ who holds the ____________________________.

Doctrine and Covenants 20:74 tells me how I will be baptized and that is by ___________________.

Immersed means __________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________

How was Jesus baptized? ___________________________________________________________

When I am baptized I will make some promises. What is a promise? _________________________
________________________________________________________________________________

Sometimes I make promises to _______________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________

Some of the things I promise to do are: _________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________

At my baptism, I will make special promises to the Lord and they are called ___________________.

A covenant is different from a regular promise because it is made with the Lord and he makes promises in return. We make our first covenant with the Lord when __________________________.

Mosiah 18:10 says "I have entered into a covenant with Him that I will ________________________
him and _________________________________________________________________________.

The first part of 2 Nephi 31:12 says that the Lord promises to give the _________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________.

In 3 Nephi 11:33, the Lord also makes a promise that they who are baptized "shall inherit _________
________________________________________________________________________________."

It is important to keep my promises to the Lord. When I keep my promises then he can keep his promises to me. Doctrine and Covenants 82:10 says: "______________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________."

Each week when I attend sacrament meeting and I take the sacrament, it will help me remember that when I am baptized I promise to ___________________________________________________ and _________________________________________________________________________________.

Before I am baptized, I will have an interview with my ____________________________________.

An interview is ____________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________.

My bishop/branch president is my friend and will answer any questions I might have and help me better understand what will take place when I am baptized. Some of the questions he might ask are:
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________

What I remember about my baptism that is special is ______________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________

After I am baptized, I will be _______________________________ a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints by brethren who hold the _______________________________.

They will lay their ________________ upon my head and give me the gift of the Holy Ghost.

The Holy Ghost is __________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________.

President Joseph F. Smith said, "The gift of the Holy Ghost . . . confers upon man the right to receive at any time, when he is worthy of it and desires it, the power . . . of the Holy Ghost."

The two most important words to remember from President Smith's statement is that we must be ___________________ and have a _________________________.

I can be worthy to have the Holy Ghost with me by ________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________

Some of the ways the Holy Ghost can help me are: ________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________

My baptism is something that I will always want to remember. This is a picture of me on the day I was baptized.

(Picture from baptism day)

About my baptism:
Date: ____________________________
Building: _________________________
City/State: ________________________
By: ______________________________
About my confirmation:
Date: ____________________________
Meetinghouse: _____________________
City/State: ________________________
By: ______________________________

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