Pretend to be a journalist. Show the children GAK 208 (John the Baptist Baptizing Jesus). Ask them to help you find out what is happening in the picture. Explain that a journalist needs to find out six things: what, where, when, who, how, and why. Ask the children to discover the answer to each of these words. You might direct them to Matthew 3:13–17. For example, the answer to who is “Jesus was baptized by John.” The answer to where is “in the Jordan River.”

After you have answered all of the questions, put the answers together to form a story. Invite the chorister to lead the children in “Baptism” (pp. 100–101), and point out that the first five questions are answered in the first verse of the song and that the why question is answered in the second verse.

Learn the first verse of “I Want to Be Baptized”  (Friend, July 2005, 45):

I want to be baptized in clothes pure and white,
To follow the Savior, to do what is right.
I’ll covenant with Him to always be true,
For this is the thing that He wants me to do.
(If you cannot access this song, teach “When I Am Baptized” [p. 103] or another baptism song from Children’s Songbook.)

Explain that Jesus set an example for us and that each of us needs to be baptized. Bear your testimony that Jesus is the Son of God