Each person getting baptized has their own unique story and experience in learning the gospel of Jesus Christ and their own testimony of the truth. We all care, and we all love them by the time they enter the waters of baptism. As Alma said in Alma 18:8-10:
8---And it came to pass that he said to them: Behold, here are the waters of Mormon (for this they were called) and now, as ye are desirous to come into the fold of God, and to be called his people, and are willing to bear one another's burdens, that they may be light;
9---Yea, and are willing to mourn with those that mourn; yea, and comfort those that stand in need of comfort, and to stand as witnesses of God at all times and in all things, and in all places that ye may be in, even until death, that you may be redeemed of God, and be numbered with those of the first resurrection, that ye may have eternal life---
10---Now I say unto you, if this be the desire of your hearts, what have you against being baptized in the name of the Lord, as a witness before him that you have entered into a covenant with him, that you will serve him and keep his commandments, that he may pour out his Spirit more abundantly upon you?"
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