Ok, we are going to backtrack a little bit here. In between Lloyd getting set apart as a missionary and him going into the MTC, we spent a few days in Utah up at Bear Lake at a family reunion. It was interesting because since Lloyd had been set apart on Saturday morning, he had to obey mission rules. I was his companion and the Stake President told him I would be his first trainer. So no music. No TV. He had to get up at 6:30 every morning and study his scriptures. Go to bed at 10:30. No swimming. All that. And we were told to start calling him Elder Berg, which I didn't do really good at.
So Sunday night we had a family gathering. I was in charge of the spiritual thought and I made it all about Elder Berg of course.
Prior to leaving for Utah, I had gone through my old mission box and found something interesting that one of the missionaries in my mission had given to me to use. It was a cut out of the plan of salvation and it looked a little like this:
Mine had Charlie Brown as the character, but it was the same concept. So I taught the plan of salvation to all the nieces and nephews and took Charlie Brown from the pre-earth life to Earth, through the final judgement, and into the Celestial kingdom. Then I gave Lloyd his very own 25 year old brand new plan of salvation props.
Lloyd did get up at 6:30 every day. On Wednesday, he actually got up about 3:15 and we left for the airport about 3:30. Dropped him off at 4:00 am per instructions and he made his way to Mexico City as the newest missionary going to Panama.
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