The amazing blessings, from the Lord, of technology.  On Saturday evening, we had the wonderful privilege to witness our grandson's baptism through Skype.  Unbelievable!  It was Parker Vincent Schollenberger turning 8 years old and his dad, Ben, baptizing and confirming him.  Saturday was October 12th, here in Malaysia, but really, we began at midnight, which would be October 13th.  The baptism, back in Utah, was at 10 AM Utah time, and 14 hours later our time.  We had just finished our first 2 sessions of General Conference over at our JB Branch, and then stayed awake till the

 baptism.  We receive our General Conference one week later, on Oct. 12 and 13.  We watched the Saturday sessions from 3 to 5 PM and 6 to 8 PM, with an hour inbetween for a quick supper.
We ate some KFC Chicken with the Elders.  We were blessed to have 6 people at these session, one of them an investigator.  Then, we went home and stayed busy, trying to keep awake until our midnight.  The baptism began about 7 minutes late and went to about 12:55 AM in Malaysia.  After Parker was baptized, I finally got the idea to get out our camera and take some pictures of our computer while we were Skyping our family.  The young man conducting the meeting announced that we
were joining them from Singapore.  That was fun to hear that.  The first two pictures are Karey Hanks giving a talk on the Holy Ghost.  This picture is just after Parker got confirmed by his dad and shaking everyone's hands.  The last picture is when Parker got up to bear his testimony.  Everything went so very well, with Jacob holding the IPad and getting everything just great.  Preston gave the opening prayer and Porter gave a wonderful talk.  This baptism was held up in Salt Lake somewhere, because Parker's cousin, Orion Xiao was also baptized at the same time.  Rachel lead the music and Whitt

played the piano for the service.  It was really amazing to sit here in Malaysia and see the entire baptismal service live.  Even serving our full time mission half way around the world, we still were blessed to see Parker get baptized and not miss any of our grandkid's special day.  We closed our Skype out and got ready for bed, finally getting to sleep around 1:30 in the morning.  It was so worth it.  We then got up on our Sunday and had the two Sunday sessions of General Conference, from 10 AM to 12 noon and 1 PM to 3 PM.  Linda made a nice pot of chili (which was a bit hot to the taste because of a different chili powder we used) for the luncheon.  Everyone lays out their food and shares together.  General Conference was great, as usual and we got lots of good talks to use for the next quarter's Relief Society and Priesthood meetings.  We are so grateful to the Lord for such technology in our day.  Skyping Parker's baptism was wonderful.