Ever since my son was a little boy I would dream of the day I would take him to the MTC! (Missionary Training Center) in Provo, UT. I had gone with my mom when she took my brother many, many, many years ago, and thought it would be a wonderful experience to have with my own son one day. Well, since then they have changed the way you drop of your missionary at the MTC and they have other MTCs around the world that your missionary may be sent to, so you can be just dropping them off at the airport. I have to admit that I really wanted to still take him to Provo, even if it meant just dropping him off at the curb! I don’t know why that was so important to me, it just was!
When my son received his call I was excited to see that he would be reporting to the Provo MTC! I knew that they had changed the way you drop off your missionary since the time I had gone with my brother, but I still was excited to go!
We had only six weeks from the time he received his call to the time we were to have him at the MTC. That time went by so fast! I had decided to rent a car, and my son’s girlfriend and my sister came with us.
On the morning we left we had somethings to do before we could be on our way. First we had to pick up the car, then over to the Stake president’s office for my son to be set apart as a missionary.
I didn’t know you could take notes of the blessing when he was getting set apart, be prepared to do so! You aren’t supposed to try to get every word, but the phrases that stick out and some thoughts that may come to you. I was so grateful to be able to do that. We had a couple of us taking notes, so between us we were able to give my son pretty good details of his blessing. Something he can look at throughout his mission!