How to send Christmas packages to Prague

Dear Parents and Loved Ones of the Czech Prague Missionaries,

President Slovacek and I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your continued support of your missionary. Your communication with them is vital to their well being. When they know they are fully supported by loved ones at home, they are much happier missionaries. They have a clearer focus. They are free to work harder because their attention is not being diverted by wondering how things are going at home. So thank you again for your loving and sustained support.

Though it may not seem like it, the holiday season is close at hand. Many of you will want to send a Christmas package to your missionary. This is highly encouraged; so we would like to send along a few reminders concerning the mail. Please notify friends and family of these reminders as well.

Mail packages early. If you send a package in September or October, it will arrive on time without an enormous shipping cost. Your missionary will also receive the package before Christmas. We make a special trip the week before Christmas to take packages to the missionaries. If a package arrives after we have made our deliveries, the missionary will not receive the package until January.

Address all packages to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and send to the mission home. This cannot be stressed enough. Last year, several packages were either lost or sent back to the sender because this simple request was ignored. Packages have a way of disappearing off missionary apartment doorsteps in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. They are much safer here in the mission home. Please be assured that we will do all we can to keep the packages secure. We have set up a new security system with many locks and limited access to keys to the missionary closet.

Put their name second on the mailing label. Your mailing label should look like this:

Cirkev Jezise Krista Svatych Poslednich Dnu
Elder Matthew Vivona
85/95 Milady Horakove
Praha 170 00 Czech Republic

I hope this is not confusing. Please take a few minutes before you mail your package to get the address label right. It will make all the difference to your missionary at Christmas time.

Thank you again for your continued support. We love your missionary! In December, we will be posting a slide show of all the missionaries throughout the mission on our blog: www.theslovaceks.blogspot.com

Many thanks,

President and Sister Slovacek