Elder Matt Patt

Last year when I went home for surgery I was lucky enough to be in town for my friend Matt's baptism. Matt and I were friends in high school, and although I was not a huge part of his conversion it was defiantly a big deal for me (and obviously for him.) Monday morning Matt flew out to Utah and yesterday he went into the MTC (Missionary Training Center).
We got to spend Tuesday night in Salt Lake and then Travis and I dropped Matt off. Here are a couple pictures from the last few days.
I am so happy and proud of Matt, he's leaving for Mexico in about two months... just long enough to learn Spanish.

This is the pipe organ in the Conference Center, luckily it was still set up from the Christmas devotional. We took a tour and learned all kinds of interesting facts. For example the Conference Center seats over 21 thousand people.


The pipe organ on the top has about 7.5 thousand working pipes. The less impressive-looking organ on the bottom actually has 11.5 thousand working pipes. It amazes me because it looks to much smaller!

This is Matt outside the MTC yesterday morning.




And Travis and Matt and I, just minutes before he went in.

For those of you who know Matt, even if you're not LDS you should write him a letter. Being in the MTC over Christmas is hard and he can probably use all the cheerful mail he get. Email me for his address.
Aaand, for some pictures of Temple Square check out my other blog.