taking him to the MTC

We are starting this blog to follow Matthew's journey on his mission to Manchester New Hampshire.
It has been quite the journey to reach this point and we are grateful for his willingness to serve his Heavenly Father and sacrifice two years of his life to preaching the Gospel to the people of the Manchester New Hampshire mission.

He was set apart as a missionary on October 31st at the home of Pres. Wells. our stake president
       Matthew's mission covers the area of New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont and parts of Massachusetts and New York. He will serve from November 2015 to November 2017. He is English speaking. There is also a Manchester New Hampshire mission facebook page that you may find some tidbits about him there. He mission President is Pres. and Sis. Stoker.
     We were able to drive Matt to the MTC (missionary training center) on Nov.1st and spend a few days with family and friends before entering the MTC. We were also able to go to temple square and do an endowment session in the Salt Lake Temple. this was a great experience that we were grateful to share with Matt.

     On Wednesday we were able to have lunch with our Nephew and Matt's cousin Spencer Hollandworth. Spencer was then able to go to the MTC with us and take pictures for us.

 It was a great experience and not as hurried as we had been told. the missionary that was there to greet us took pictures of us, we hugged and said goodbye and he was off.

     Matthew was so excited to go. He has a huge smile on his face and was ready to get busy. the hard part for us was leaving the state. Driving away and leaving our son. We know where he is suppose to be and doing the Lords work.