Only the BEST! You and Your Car.

Pre-rinse, suds, scrub, rinse, clear coat, and wax. There’s no better feeling to pull out of the car wash with your baby looking its finest. Look out world! Only the best for the Maserati’s we all drive. Well okay, I guess I’ll have my trusty bike and city bus for now. Everyone knows that guys love cars, it’s a bro thing. My last mission companion, Elder Openshaw, came up with an awesome analogy for baptism and confirmation after four weeks being out in the mission field that anyone, especially car enthusiasts like myself can appreciate and relate to. 

I’ll try to paraphrase my brilliant mission companion’s parable.

Baptism and Confirmation is the works option at the car wash. Baptism literally washes all of our mistakes away the same the pre-soak, suds, undercarriage wash, and rinse removes all the dirt, bugs, and road film. Confirmation (receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost or as many know him as the Holy Spirit), compares to waxing your prized possession. No way would you want all of that effort in cleaning the car go to waste! 

Genius! When I heard this I knew that there was a way to understand Baptism and Confirmation the way that our Heavenly Father intended it.

Baptism: To try to add my own two cents into this analogy, I decided to image my future Farrari. You wouldn’t want just any Junior High soccer team car wash fundraiser laying hands on that beast of a machine, now would you? Only the most qualified hands are going to wash that! Same thing works with baptism. There are people who hold the authority (what’s known as the priesthood), to wash you clean of all your mistakes. Only the finest for your four wheeled baby and you!

Confirmation: Now time to seal the deal. Status symbol and you are now completely clean. We now need to keep all that illustrious paint that money can buy and your spirit protected from the elements. Heck no to those little bugs and road film! Confirmation works the same way. Skilled white gloved  hands, lovingly apply wax to keep the car’s showroom gleam. Heavenly Father provided the Holy Ghost (sometimes referred to as the Holy Spirit), as a constant companion to help us know which roads to take and which to detour.

So what are you waiting for? Throw the cover off your prized coup and hit the streets. Elder Openshaw couldn’t have said it better. Baptism and confirmation are as simple as getting the works done to your car.