If you would like to email Elder Kauvaka his email is [email protected]
His P-Days are on Mondays so if you write him before that day he will be able to read them that week.
His P-Days are on Mondays so if you write him before that day he will be able to read them that week.
Mission Address (letters & packages)Elder Michael Alipate Kauvaka
Misión El Salvador San Salvador Este PO Box # 3362 San Salvador, El Salvador Central America Send all packages USPS only...NOT UPS or FedEx. Some people say to put religious stickers in Spanish to help assure its arrival and others said they didn't put anything and it got there fine. Takes about 4-8 weeks! What is DearElder.com?DearElder.com provides free letter-delivery service to the Provo MTC and all pouch missions. Choose a mission and click the appropriate button. Click the button below to go directly to the website.
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What is Pouch?In about 38 countries, effecting approximately one-third of full-time Mormon missionaries worldwide, local postal systems are often unreliable. To help get letters to the missionaries, the LDS Church provides a mail service known as the “pouch,” wherein family and friends send their letters to Salt Lake City where they are then forwarded to mission headquarters around the world. The Church mail room staff sorts the letters into packets for each of the missions on the pouch the service and then ships the bundle of letters using a reliable global carrier directly to the mission homes. The pouch system isn’t fast, it can often take several weeks for a letter to arrive, but it has proven to be a reliable way for missionaries to get their mail.
Over the years, letters to missionaries sent through the pouch occasionally included cash, medication, stamps, printed pictures, and other non-correspondence-related items. Laws in each country are different, but most have regulations and taxes that apply to these types of items. The Church must comply with these regulations or they will not be able to continue the pouch service, therefore they have developed the following guidelines. Pouch Guidelines You can send two kinds of letter through the pouch: either a postcard or a letter on one side of a single sheet of paper. These are the only types of correspondence the pouch mail service will accept. The service does not accept envelopes or packages. If you are using a piece of paper, the sheet should be folded into three parts, as is commonly done to insert a letter into a business envelope. The top edge of the sheet should be fastened with tape on the top edge only, no closer than one inch to either side. They recommend a single 8 1/2-inch x 11-inch sheet of 20-pound paper (the equivalent of paper used in most copiers). Write your return address in the top left corner. Apply a stamp to the top right corner of the tri-folded paper or post card, and mail it to Church headquarters at this address: Name of the missionary Mission name P.O. Box 30150 Salt Lake City, UT 84130-0150For more information, read this LDS Church News article on Pouch Service Regulations, or, if you have received your mission call, check the instructions in your mission call packet. |