Freak, it took me forever to finally crack the e-mail and password login for this blog. even though ryan told me what it was. let's just say he spells things weird.
ANYWAY, he's gone! Left on wednesday morning!
This is a pic of our family on the sunday of his farewell. Good times. We're going to miss Ryan and his funny sense of humor. The house is already quiet without him here. As I'm sure some of you can imagine. Ha.
He was set apart on Tuesday night. He got some really great blessings in his setting apart and it was a great spiritual experience. (My favorite was that he would be able to dream in Spanish and that he'd be able to bless people and cast out satan and his minnions!) He's going to have an awesome mission and he's going to baptize millions! We can feel it!
Wednesday morning he slept in.... ha.... then finished packing. We piled in the car and drove to the MTC to drop him off! The drop of was different than any other missionary drop off we've done before. (I've dropped off two brothers before and been dropped off myself....). They don't allow family to come inside anymore. So We pulled up to the sidewalk, got out, got his luggage out of the car, and then gave him hugs as the "helper" missionaries awkwardly watched us. It was really fast. Not much time for tears. They used to make us watch that cheesey video that made us cry all the time, but this was all tearless.
Elder Ryan looked a bit nervous and a bit sad when we finally got back in the car to leave, but he wheeled his suitcase in the MTC wearing his awesome suit of power and I'm sure he's doing just great!! We can't wait to finally hear from him and hear about his time at the MTC and all his other adventures!
Plus, we're pretty sure he forgot to pack his scriptures. They were on the dining room table when we got home. hahaha! We're waiting for him to ask for them.
Make sure to write to him if you miss him! His address is posted in the blog post below. There's also an awesome service called dearelder.com where you can type a letter to Ryan and it gets printed at the MTC and delivered to him the same day! I recommend that. I loved getting dearelders while I was at the MTC. Plus it only costs free nintey-free. It also works for his whole mission, free of charge, when he gets out to Guatemala. So do it!
Plus, if you comment on the blog at anytime I'll be sure to pass the comments along to Ryan in a letter or e-mail or something. So feel free to do that.
Well, peace out Ryan's friends and fans. It's been real. -Mindy
Ryan's favorite Sister
