The true mode of baptism is by immersion. This was certainly the form of baptism performed by John the Baptist (Joan E. Taylor. The Immerser: John the Baptist within Second Temple Judaism. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids. 1997, p. 49-50) and clearly existed as the preferred mode of baptism into the early second century AD (“The Didache.” Early Christian Fathers. Ed. Cyril C. Richardson. Macmillan Pulbishing Co., Inc. New York, 1970, p. 174). The evidence of Mosiah 18:12-16, cited above, confirms that it was also the Nephite practice.