As a former sister missionary I remember introducing non members to strong members to be fellowshipped. Finding strong priesthood members who would remain in the ward long after the missionaries had gone. Wouldn’t it be more meaningful to be baptized by a fellow member and still have that connection down the road. I remember one of my brothers making it a goal NOT to physically baptize those he taught but to pass the reign onto another. Not that it’s a choice for just anybody to baptize. One must have authority and has to be interviewed the same at the individual to be baptized.
Missionary baptisms are handled by the
missionaries while primary baptisms arrangements are made by primary leaders and/or
parents depending on the size of the ward or stake and the amount of children
being baptized. I remember making the
arrangements for Jaime’s baptism before I was aware that there were others in
the stake who would also be baptized.
Still she was the only one from our ward and although the program
started in the chapel with the five children from the stake, but we broke off
into wards each time a child was baptized (here)
The missionaries had made arrangements for a program set up for two youth. The program was not complete and they had mentioned that before Richard took the reins of printing up the program to his own perfection and satisfaction. He asked why baptism is spelled with an "s" while baptize is spelled with a "z". He printed up several programs. But changes were made to include more youth and ward involvement. The Elders had picked up the programs and used a white out where some names had been but had not been filled out with the names of those who had been newly assigned.
A counselor in the YW class presidency gave the first talk on
baptism instead of the sister missionaries whose names were initially on the
program.
