Skip to main content

Sending Mail to Mark

Image
By
Hello all!  Already the questions about sending Mark mail for Christmas are coming in.  Wow, I can't tell you how happy it makes me to think of Mark, feeling the love from family and friends during the holidays.

I received a letter from the Russia St. Petersburg Mission a couple of weeks ago with directions on how to send him mail.  They suggest sending warm clothing (wool socks and long underwear), packaged foods (Cheez-It's are a favorite), and things to make food taste better (taco seasoning, for example) as well as photos.  Here are the instructions on sending a package:

Dear Parents, friends and family of Missionaries: 


The Christmas Season is coming and you may want to send a Christmas Package. 

Mail packages by November 1 to insure they will be here in time. It is best to keep the value of a package below $25 to avoid custom problems. Write the word “Noel” on outside of package so we will know it is for Christmas. “Noel” packages will be stored in Mission Office until the holiday season.

REGULAR LETTERS and CARDS IN ENVELOPES & PACKAGES: (US Postal Service)
Write recipient’s name as shown in example below. Do NOT put “Elder” or “Sister” or your missionary will not get their package.

Russia, St. Petersburg 190000 
a/я 122 
CRO “Religious Association of the Church of Jesus Christ of LDS” 
Mark Kennedy

You will need to fill out a customs form (depending on the weight of the package, the postal people can tell you which one to fill out when you get there).  Be sure that you DO NOT value the items for more than $25--it causes all kinds of problems with customs.

Too, it's super pricey to send him anything.  I tried to think of things that were super light, and that didn't take up much space.  Please don't spend too much--it's been between $40-$60 a package so far.

Thanks everyone!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Quest for Birkenstocks

By
One of the main reasons I go to Germany every couple of years is to restock my supply of Birkenstocks.  I started buying them when I lived there, and I basically can't live without them now.  It just about kills me when a pair runs its course and needs to be thrown away.  I think in my lifetime, I've thrown away only three pairs.  One that never was quite right (the straps were plastic and would cut into my skin after a long day), one pair that I wore gardening one too many times (the brown dirt stains wouldn't come out of the white leather), and the pair that I was wearing when I broke my ankle (they were an unfortunate casualty of broken ankle PTSD because those purple and blue paisleys go down as one of my favorite pairs of all time).  I only threw out the garden ones a couple of days before I left for Germany, because I knew I would be getting a new pair. The only store where I have ever bought my Birkenstocks is Hoffmann's in Speicher.  (Well okay, t...
2 comments
Read more

Johannah's Bridal Shower

By
One of the only reasons to lament my daughter not living in Utah anymore? Sister Mecham.  When I think back to the absolutely classic, beautiful, elegant, heart-warming bridal shower she threw for Glo, I literally sit in awe.  Her talents and abilities are unmatched! Believe me, I was hoping anyone  would volunteer to throw Hannah a bridal shower.  Being only two weeks post-op, I knew it was going to be very difficult for me to stand up let alone host the thing.  I even asked several people about me throwing it, thinking they would tell me it wasn't  up to me, but do you know what they ALL said? Of course  I should host it. This is what we do, baby! So I took a deep breath and decided to do it the best I could do it, knowing that I would never equal what Becky Mecham could do. Since Hannah's wedding colors were Tigers colors, and since Hannah loves baseball, I figured a baseball-themed bridal shower would be perfect for her.  And she agreed! But l...
Post a Comment
Read more

Saying goodbye to KitTen

By
Last week, we said goodbye to KitTen.  Sadly, it was way too early for him to die. When I worked at Interlochen during the summers, I knew a medical assistant who fostered animals before they were put up for adoption by the local humane society.  She got a Siamese-looking kitten after I had already left camp and posted a photo of him on FB.  I reached out immediately. Growing up with Siamese cats, I really do love them.  I love their personalities, especially how vocal they are.  I adopted KitKat back when we lived in Dayton, but in a strange turn of events, a girl who was cat-sitting him before we left for Germany wouldn't give him back.  Since then, we've had mostly tabbies (with the GRAND exception of Hootie), so I was excited to start an adventure with another Siamese. We were living in PA at the time, so Mark and Allison brought him out to us.  Because he was going to be MY cat, I was determined to give him THE most perfect name, but in the end, w...
Post a Comment
Read more