Salt Lake City - Granddaughter's Baptism

One of our granddaughters was baptized November 19. We drove to Salt Lake City for this special occasion. Weather events bookended our trip. 

It's about a 14 hour drive from Kirkland to Salt Lake City. The scenery is varied throughout the journey. In the Cascade Mountains just east of Kirkland the evergreen trees come right down to the road and you drive through tunnels of dark green, or snow-covered dark green on this trip, trees. Oregon, Idaho, and Utah offer grand vistas of fields and mountains. 

Snoqualmie Pass in the Cascade Mountains can be a challenge this time of year. Here's what it looked like going east on Interstate 90 over Snoqualmie Pass. Fortunately snow wasn't a problem once we got through the pass. 

You'll have to take our word for it - Michael Todd's two daughters in Salt Lake City are beautiful little girls. We don't post pictures of our grandchildren on this public blog if they're under 18 (only one of our grandchildren is over 18). 

In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints children are usually baptized after their eighth birthday. They receive lessons about baptism and make a choice. Baptism is done by immersion, following Christ's example. Then the person is given the gift of the Holy Ghost through the laying on of hands. 

Michael & Joe Todd

Monday we drove from Salt Lake City to Pendleton, Oregon. Tuesday morning there were reports of snow and ice at Snoqualmie Pass so we opted to go west to Portland and then up to Kirkland. It's two hours longer than going through the pass. Weather reports said there would be rain. 

If you look closely you can see a rainbow starting at the guard rail on the right side in the middle of the picture. The rainbow spanned the Columbia River along Interstate 84 going west. We could see the complete rainbow. Soon after this we headed into hard, hard rain that lasted for five hours of the six hour trip we did that day. We supposedly drove right past Mount St. Helens and Mount Rainier. We couldn't see them on through the rain. 

We're glad we could be with our granddaughter and family on this special day.