October 3, 2017

Awesome experience of Mason being set apart as a missionary!  He's got this.  President Raines gave him a great blessing and we had good conversation leading up to it.  There were a few tears shed.  Happy tears from me.  And feeling the Spirit tears.  I feel like he is ready and there are good humble people in Arkansas that he will help.  Rylie had a rough time at first with lots of tears but we had a good evening afterward.  Some of Mason's old young men quorum friends and leaders came over and then we sat around and chatted and looked at old pictures from two years ago and decided that two years didn't seem so long ago so two years for a mission is not too bad.  ELDER MASON DRAPER!

Disclaimer - we may have wasted a lot of the day away playing Dr. Mario.  Good choice.