It was literally the last day, less than ten hours before he boards his flight for MTC, he's still packing his clothes.
Thankfully he was mostly packed when our Stake President Ure came to our house to officially set him apart as Elder Clayton Zhao, missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints serving in the Hong Kong Cantonese Mission. After a powerful blessing, he gave hugs to mom and dad. We took some photos.
Then Da gave him a late night haircut, then he resumed finishing packing until past midnight.
The next morning at 6:00am his best friend Ben came to our house to say one last goodbye before loading his luggage into the car.
In a very surprised visit, Mrs. Grimann came to the airport to say farewell to Elder Clayton Zhao. He was thoroughly surprised to see her. She gave him a little gift
This is the meticulous letter Mrs. Grimann wrote to Elder Zhao
...and we didn't realized that his missionary tags were mailed to us. So flew to the MTC without his tags. We mailed it back out to him the next day, but we did manage to put our family photo on the back of one tag :)
