IT'S GREEK TO ME!!!!

Well, it's about time! Some blessed soul added a new feature to this application that allows a blogger to add text in another language. They even included Greek. Now I can do some stuff with New Testament Greek. (The only draw back is that there are no accents. But, originally, there weren't any accents in the classical and biblical Greek anyway

Now, I can do things that are impressive to the Gentiles and the weak of spirit. For example: the verb that is used in the New Testament: for baptize is:  βαπτιδζω (pronounced baptidzo). The verb βαπτιδζω comes from the verb βαπτο (pronounced Bapto), which means literally TO DIP. Doctor Phillips, who was the department chair of the Biblical and Mideastern Languages at BYU, was always making commentary about John the Baptist by calling him "John the Dipper." That's not because John used a dipper to pour water over the Savior's head, but because John completely immersed or dipped Jesus into the water. Thereby The Savior was totally covered with water in likeness of the grave, and the womb, so that he could come up in likeness of rebirth and the resurrection etc. etc.

Speaking of baptisms: Sister Campbell and I were asked by our mission president, President Jon S. Beesley, to help our elders in the Chester Valley Ward to teach a nine year old girl that lives in unusual circumstances.

The young girl is named Nina Spartage and lives with both her mother and her grandmother. Her mother is a baptized member of the Church, but she has gone off the deep end with drugs. She is usually dressed in black and has the Gothic painted face. She considers herself a witch (figuratively, that's true) and is usually strung out on drugs. Her grandmother is also a member, is in a wheel chair, is as active as she can be, and is also Nina's guardian. She is the one who was trying to get Nina baptized.

The experience was something surreal at times. But, we finally got her baptized last Saturday and confirmed on Sunday. We bought her a new dress and shoes for the confirmation.

This is Nina with her grandmother, Mary Carroll.

Sister Carrol is in a wheel chair which makes getting around difficult.

Nina didn't smile much on this shot --

So, I told her I wanted to see a real smile.

I finally got them both in the right mode.

This is Nina's inactive older brother.

The Elder on the left is Elder Johnson.

Elder Frank is on the right.

Here's our whole "disambly."

Yes, there we are...