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Thank you for this information. So just to be sure I correctly understand...even a child of record will be considered a convert baptism after the age of 9? Does that mean that if she is not baptized while she is eight years old then she won't be considered a member anymore? Thank you for the kind words of encouragement :)

Thank you everyone for your comments. To answer a few questions...my daughter's father is not in contact with her and I have sole custody. My mother has already talked to her Bishop and was granted permission for the Baptism to take place there by the Stake President. My nephew will also be getting baptized at the same time so they wanted to make it a family affair and have my daughter and nephew baptized the same day. Basically, everything is in order...I just need my Bishop to approve it. To be quite honest, I am not comfortable talking to my Bishop. Not because of any mistakes I have made or because I fell unworthy...not for any personal reason...just the fact that he is not very approachable. He seems very cold when I have tried to talk to him in the past so now I have a difficult time approaching him with these matters. I understand about making sure my daughter is ready and quite honestly, I don't know if she is. I am feeling so much pressure from my family to do this baptism NOW. I tried to explain to my mother last night that I'm not sure my daughter is ready but she seems to think she is and is really pushing the issue. I just want to do the right thing for my daughter, but I'm not sure what that is. I don't want to let ANYONE down, but no matter what I decide, someone is going to be upset.

I was inactive for many years and recently started going back to church. I am a single mother and the sole provider for myself and my children. I work a full time job and am going to school full time (12 credit hours/semester) all while raising 3 beautiful children with no family that lives in the same state as me. My daughter just turned 8 and since we are going for Thanksgiving to visit my mother and step-father (both active members) they are really pushing for my daughter to be baptized while we are there. My daughter was blessed in the church as a baby so she is a member, but we never went to church until very recently. I also have a young son with severe behavioral problems which makes it difficult (usually impossible) to stay in sacrament meetings and sunday school, although I try to hear as much as possible. I would like for my daughter to be baptized and I would like for my step-father to be the one to baptize her, and since we live so far away from them now is the best time to do it (while we are visiting them.) I am afraid, however, that the Bishop will say she isn't ready to be baptized yet because we haven't been active for long at all. I am gaining testimony of the church, but I feel like my Bishop and other members still do not accept my family. I am working very hard to get my degree so that I can build a better life for my children but because of our hectic life, right now I am not able to attend church activities and functions and I feel like we haven't "proven" our faith because of that. I wish the church was a little more understanding about the fact that we are not all in a situation to be able to make our lives revolve around church functions and activities. I want my daughter to be baptized and, most importantly, she wants to be, but I am afraid of her being turned down. Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated.