Here is my boy at his school doing a musical sharing time for the parents. He looks bigger than his class, but I admit I still think of him as my baby. I can't believe that he will soon be eight.
He walked through the door and to his dismay I was on the phone. He told me, "Mom, I need to talk to you right now!" I quickly got off the phone and his troubling experience came tumbling right out. "I was on the bus with Andrew and he wasn't feeling well. And he threw-up all over the bus. And the throw up was even coming out of his nose (his chin was quivering when he told me that part). And so the bus driver went back to school to get towels. And Andrew had to sit in the back of the bus. And I felt bad for Andrew so I just sat back there with him and asked what I could do to help him. And the smell was really bad in the back of the bus. And now I feel like I am going to throw-up!"
I was so proud of him to see how much empathy he felt for his friend. The scriptural explanation defining how to know if someone is ready for baptism came to mind.
Mosiah 18:8-10 And it came to pass that he said unto them.. and now, as ye are desirous to come into the fold of God, and to be called his people, and are willing to bear one another’s burdens, that they may be light; Yea, and are willing to mourn with those that mourn; yea, and comfort those that stand in need of comfort, and to stand as witnesses of God at all times and in all things, and in all places that ye may be in, even until death, ... Now I say unto you, if this be the desire of your hearts, what have you against being baptized in the name of the Lord, as a witness before him that ye have entered into a covenant with him, that ye will serve him and keep his commandments, that he may pour out his Spirit more abundantly upon you?
I remembered this scripture and marveled at his developmental progress. He has developed empathy! I think that he is almost ready to be baptized.
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