We put Caleb into the MTC today. At 7:30 AM we met with the Stake President where he set him apart as a full time missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day saints and gave him a priesthood blessing. This is where Caleb Anderson turned into Elder Anderson.
Lauren, Derrald, Janell, Kay and I went around the room and said nice things about him. We came home and Kay gave Caleb a fathers blessing, and we had our last lunch at Los Hermanos in Provo.
We put him into the MTC where he will spend the next 12 weeks learning Korean. He received his name tag and we went to a large auditorium, sang Called to Serve, listened to the MTC President and wife speak and watched the same video that was there for Christina and Jamon when I put them in. Caleb said his good-byes and was the first of the missionaries to break away from their families and go through the doors with the sign "missionaries only". I was teary but I know if he chose not to go, I would be upset and mad. This is a rite of passage.
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