I want my life to be as clean as earth right after rain .

Today is a rainy day in upstate New York .Which is good because I love the rain .It reminds me of some of my favorite memories, playing in the rain in the beautiful parks in northern western Australia with my best friend Hannah ,Christmas time and  it also reminds me of my Mum .For a while we lived away from the school that my siblings and I attended and had to catch the bus which was a drag most of the time however when it would rain my brother David and myself would try and get as wet as possible because when  we got home mum would always be waiting there with hot cocoa ,towels and pjs . If it was in school holidays she would take us to the video store and let us get videos and make cookies and have our blankets in the lounge room ...which my Dad didn’t enjoy and had voice his opinions frequently on the subject lol
But there is one very rainy day that is my favourite of all and the reason I have been thinking about this particular day is because on Saturday a lady that my companion and I have been teaching is going to be baptized .If you haven’t guessed already the day that I am referring to was the day that I was baptized .It was Monday the 16th of February 1998 and as the seasons go in Australia especially where my parents lived it rained every single one of my birthdays .I had waited a very long time to be baptized after having had seen my 2 older sisters be baptized and having felt the awesome spirit and the specialness of the occasion. My mum worked really  hard to make me feel like a princess that day .I had caught the bus home and began to make a box for the memories of that day when my mum finally came home she carried all type of fun and interesting things with her but my favourite of all things was a dress that I was to wear after I was baptized it was a beautiful 90 style princess dress and my mum told me the specific reason that she had purchased this dress for me was because I was her princess and now by being baptized I was showing my heavenly father that I wanted to be his princess and that I was going to try and act the way that a princess would .so that one day I would eventually be a princess in heaven.
I was baptized by my Daddy that evening in the presence of all of my family and a large multitude of my branch and I have not felt more clean and beautiful or as close to my heavenly father until I was able to go to the temple.
I am really looking forward to helping people feel those very special feelings that are associated with taking those very important steps to returning back to our heavenly father. Because I know that through making and keeping these very special promises that we make when we are baptized that we will all be able to return to the presence of our heavenly father and be princesses and princes living in eternal happiness with our family and loved ones. I am grateful for my savoir Jesus Christ for preparing this way for me.

This was and is still my favourite baptism song even though it is short but hey so was I back then

 When I am baptized

1. I like to look for rainbows whenever there is rain
and ponder on the beauty of an earth made clean again.

2. I know when I am baptized my wrongs are washed away,
And I can be forgiven and improve myself each day.

Chorus
I want my life to be as clean as earth right after rain.
I want to be the best I can and live with God again.