Home MTC

HOME MTC

I had no idea what home MTC was going to be like. We did get his schedule that was pretty close to what it was for them. We had the first morning off and didn't know what to do. Then his classes started. He set up a spot in my craft room where he could sleep and do his classes on my old lap top. He would have class and scripture study there. Sometimes he would go to Calvins house or Calvin would come here since they live so close. 

I opened my schedule to just be home for him when he isn't in class. Someone is suppose to be a companion to him when he isnt' in class. And that could be his brothers, Bryan or I or another priesthood holder. I thought we would get to spend more time together in little bits of breaks he has. But he was burned out during his breaks and just wanted to lay around. 

Ty loves this weird movie called Taxi driver. Stock and Brett made ty this lego guy that kind of looks like the guy in the movie. Ty took it on his mission. 

He would let me take him to lunch sometimes. 

Going to different spots for classes helped a little . And I got him treats. 

Dropping Ty off at Calvins house to study. 

My birthday!  We went on Ty's lunch break to lunch and invited Grandma and Grandpa. 

While Ty was in classes Bryan and I went on a ride with my parents up to my fav spot near temple peak. I love that ride. 

When we got home the kids had my cake ready with every freaking candle we had in the house. It seriously looked like it was on fire. Even though they were teasing me it was sweet that they did something for me. It made me happy to think Ty may only miss one of my birthdays! Instead of two. 

I have been trying to to get Ty to cook all summer before he left. I wanted to make sure he could make himself food and not just have pancakes like he usually ate. So he found a recipe online for homemade authentic spaghetti. We went to Walmart together and bought the things we needed for the dinner and he helped make it. I thought it was so good! It took hours but we made it. Only Blake, Bryan, Ty and I ate it but it was really good. Ty came out swinging with the cooking. 

Ty was sleeping in the other room to be able to get up and do his MTC stuff without interfering with Blake getting ready for school. I had him help me go through his things. Which was hard. But much easier with him with me. We found a lot of things he hadn't seen for a long time. 

Home MTC is hard for a kid with ADHD. I thought he did pretty good. But I did find it funny that he had drawn on his foot. 

My niece had her baby blessed and we went to the dinner after. I knew Sannette wanted to give Tyson his goodbye hug. She had talked about it all summer. 

By the last Saturday I had temple plans for Ty, Bryan and I with all of his grandparents and Ty decided he didn't want to go. He needed a break from church stuff. I was somewhat upset because I had all of these ideas that I would be able to spend some time with him during him MTC on his breaks and he had not wanted to do anything or he went off with his friends. While I think it was really good for him to be with some of his friends I felt left out. 

Ty made a deal with me that if we didn't go to the temple he would go on a razor ride with Bryan and I. 

Having a teenage boy is crazy- you would do anything for them. Wanting to show love for them. And all you get in return is a OK when you say I love you. I kind of broke down to him that no one was going to miss him as much as I would and I just wanted to spend some time. 

So we went on a ride. We actually went to find a tree that a kid that used to be in my ward carved on. And Blake went with us as well. 

This is up Providence canyon- this spot overlooks Providence. I call it grasshopper point because we went one time and it was covered in them. 

The next day after church Bryan decided extremely last minute that we would go to the cabin in bear lake. My parents had just gotten WIFI so Ty could do his home MTC. We honesty got ready in 15 minutes and left. 

In the middle of the night their smoke alarm kept going off. It was full of all of these crazy nats that made it go off. Over and over. Super annoying. But we did have fun. 

We went and got him one last haircut before he left. 

Tysons Missionary Farewell

His tags came! It's getting real! And a email of the people in his home MTC district who were his same district in the MTC. 

His tags came! It's getting real! And a email of the people in his home MTC district who were his same district in the MTC. 

Ty and I went to the Temple with the other boys started school. They had just changed the endowment session to make it go faster and the session was so full! I asked Ty what he thought of the changes since he went before a couple of times before it changed. He said he couldn't tell the difference haha. It was really cool to go with him. 

Ty had his farewell on August 25th in our ward. We had a lot of family come and Becca and Brad watched from home in Arizona. Nate and his family came. Of course a ton of Tysons friends where there that hadn't left yet or were younger. A lot of Blakes friends love Ty and came. 

Another kid in our ward spoke who was getting home so Ty started his talk saying "thanks for all the ladies that came to hear him talk. And if there were there for Mac he would be home in two years" everyone laughed at that. 

He talked about our trip to the sacred grove. Which in the moment made that entire trip worth it if that was the only thing we got out of it. I highly recommend taking your kids there when they are old enough to understand. 

Ty loves the old testament. Weird right? He talked about sacrifice in the bible with stories like Kane and Abel. One line I liked was in this life we are going to be sacrificing something- good or bad. So make it a good one. " "God put us here with a destiny and if you turn against it you a depriving the world of you." "What things in your life are you placing between you and God. 

"I look forward to be promoted from a fisherman to a fisher of man"

Then he added in some George Strait lyrics at the end. As per usual. 

We bought some meat with sauces and had it for everyone. We ate in our backyard. 

Bryan is crazy about his lawn- he mows it twice a week and works really hard on it. He doesn't allow people to pull on the park strip by the road because it's grass. Even putting caution tape there. But he allowed it for this we needed the parking. And Tayson - Teagan's little brother was freaking out when we said to park there. We had to send a photo to his brother he wouldn't believe it. 

A W for Wendy's to tease Taegan. 

For Tyson his friends are everything. He is always out with his friends and texting them on his phone. I'm sure it was hard to leave but so many of them were leaving too. 

Sannette is going to miss him so much. Ty would go weekly to do respite with her. She kept talking about her last hug to Ty. She told everyone about him going on a mission and still talks about him now. 

After the family all left we went in the evening for Ty getting set apart as a missionary to his mission. Our Stake president is a friend of ours too- I have a lot of love and respect for him and his sweet wife who is my friend. He allowed us to talk to him first. My in laws came my parents stayed with my brother and his family at their house. 

Below is Ty putting on his tag for the first time. 

Crazy enough his companion is a kid from down the street! His name is Calvin Mortensen. My stake president hasn't seen that before. Two kids MTC comps from the same stake. It was cool Calvin showed up to get set apart just after Ty. 

What a hard and cool thing. I'm so happy he has chosen to serve a mission. I can't wait for him to learn and grow with this experience. To gain some understanding of the world and how other people live. But my heart broke into a thousand pieces of the thought of not seeing him for two years. 

Our wonderful Stake President Dave Smith. 

And of course because it's my blog post some random photos at the end of the farewell.