And he's off. . .

We took everyone down when we went to Utah to drop Mitch off at the MTC.  It was exciting and emotional all at the same time.  Mitch is a great kid, a good example and will be a stellar missionary.  There was not a dry eye in the car when we all piled back in, minus one. 

The traffic jam of cars with missionaries being dropped off that afternoon.  These were only missionaries whose last names were from N-S.  Traffic was backed up in all directions.  Literally hundreds of missionaries were probably dropped off that same day.  Behold, the army of God.

Our Latter-Day Stripling Warriors.  They won't be together like this for a very long time.

Oh, sure. . .it's all smiles now, but you just wait. . .

Mom's death hug before letting him go for two years.

Passing the baton to the next generation of missionaries.