With hot, humid weather and swaying palm trees it's pretty hard to think about Christmas! However, we are working on some preliminary plans, and of course, you play a role in our Christmas commemoration as family of one of our missionaries, Details about the Christmas phone call will come later. This email concerns the distribution of Christmas packages. Thank you very much for your supportive, compassionate, and generous responses to previous emails regarding the sending of ONE Christmas package per missionary no larger than the large flat rate USPS box. (See previous email for dimensions.) Your US post office may tell you packages arrive in the Marshall Islands in a few days - but don't believe them 🤔! Count on 2-3 weeks, especially at Christmas time. All boxes that arrive in the month of December will be put aside until our Christmas gathering. If additional packages arrive for a missionary, we will hold them until January to distribute UNLESS you clearly mark on the box that it is imperative for your son/daughter to receive this box before Christmas. (This may require a little coordination with other family members or girlfriends/boyfriends who may also want to send something.) We will, of course, continue distributing all packages that arrive up until December 1. Again, please let us know if an exception is required.
Part of the reason for this procedure is to observe which of our missionaries does NOT receive a package. The senior missionaries will help Sister Larkin prepare a box for each of those missionaries.
Again, thank you for being an important part of our missionary team here. You may not be seen, but your love, prayers, and encouragement are certainly felt.
Warmest regards,
Sister Goodsell
Mission Office staff
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