The Miracle of the Rainbow

This month it has been raining like crazy! I love the rain. I love the sound it makes on the roof tops, the feel of it on my skin, the smell of the earth as it takes in each drop. This week I was reminded of a very special promise that was made to us. It had been raining and raining. And raining. As my missionary friend and I were walking down the street, inviting people to hear our message, we looked up and saw this gigantic rainbow that reached across the whole sky. The colors were so vivid. We stood there for a moment, taking it all in.

After Noah built the ark, God flooded the earth to cleanse it from sin and unrighteousness. God gave us the rainbow as a promise that the earth will never be flooded again.
I remembered a song I sang as a little girl:
"I like to look for rainbows, whenever there is rain, and ponder on the beauty of the earth made clean again. I want my life to be as clean as earth right after rain, I want to live the best I can and live with God again."
We too, like the earth, can be cleansed from sin through baptism. Baptism is by immersion, meaning that the person being baptized is briefly submerged in water. When we are baptized by someone holding the right authority, we go down into the water and receive complete forgiveness of our sins. We are as clean as the earth right after rain. We promise to follow the example of Jesus Christ and live His commandments. He gives us the gift of the Holy Ghost, which helps us make it back to our Savior. I know because I was baptized, I can continue to follow Jesus Christ and make it back to him someday.