Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Missionary Care Packages

Happy Birthday Elder Matthew Romero! One of my best friends is serving his mission in Brazil. Today is his 21st birthday! I got a letter from him and he is doing so well.

Every time I want to send a package I have a hard time thinking of ideas. So if you have a missionary, friend, boyfriend, brother, cousin, or son out there here are some ideas of what you can send him because they LOVE packages. They love food that they cant get in the country they're in, so find that out from a missionary who served there or the distribution center workers might know. Put stickers of Jesus on your packages and they are more likely to arrive unharmed. Good Luck!

Ideas for missionary package:

  • Ties
  • Socks
  • In-soles for shoes
  • shoes
  • batman stickers
  • T-shirt
  • pancake mix and maple syrup
  • Hot tamales or fireballs
  • Lemon heads
  • balloons, birthday candles
  • Marshmallows
  • chocolate
  • pop tarts
  • ranch dressing
  • taco seasoning
  • Root beer extract
  • Brownie, cake, muffin mixes
  • dart guns
  • pick up sticks
  • caramel bars
  • oreo cookies
  • macaroni (or just the cheese)
  • fruit snacks
  • peanut butter
  • CTR rings (to pass out to kids or for him)
  • colored marking pencils
  • small Utah license plate with name on it
  • crystal light
  • razors
  • toothpaste
  • hair gel stuff
  • anything fun and random
  • scriptures, quotes and thoughts
  • handwritten notes
  • PICTURES!!

No im not that nice or rich to send him all that stuff at once, but he has been there for 2 birthdays and 2 christmas and they are just good ideas.

here are some pics of Matt! he is doing so well! He gets home in August. how exciting.



I Love the Missionaries!

2 comments:

Melinda said...

He is so darling and looks like he is so happy! Good for him! Sounds like he has been a good missionary:) I can't believe he gets home in 5 months!! Are you scared??? I love the mixing bowl for their brownies...is that all they could find?? haha I guess it worked!! I'm sure he loved your package and thanks TO ME for the Great ideas!! LOL Love you and see you on Sat?? What day are you coming? Are you meeting us in Provo on Sat?

Alicia said...

Good to know about the Jesus stickers! How did you learn this?!