MTC mailing address

Rob reports to the Missionary Training Center (MTC) on September 24, 2014. He will be in the MTC for approximately 10 days. We will not know his mission address until he has entered the Mission field. I will post the new addresses as we receive them. While Rob is in the MTC he will be able to receive mail at the following address:

Elder Robert Steven Patterson
Provo Missionary Training Center
2005 N 900 E
Provo, UT 84604
United States

His email for his mission will be : robert.patterson@myldsmail.net

Another way to send Rob mail is the website www.dearelder.com  This website allows you to send a letter to the Missionary that will be delivered on the same day that you write it. You need to sign up for an account and make sure that when you are searching for where to send it you select the non pouch option and select Utah, Salt Lake City West as the mission. It then allows you to send a letter to Rob. There may be a fee for sending letter this way but it is the same cost as postage from here but with the convenience of same day delivery.


If you are stumped as to what needs to be sent to encourage our Missionaries here is a link that provides some information as to what is best for the missionary to receive
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https://www.lds.org/new-era/2007/03/missionary-mail?lang=eng



Elder Gordon B. Hinckley said: “My heart goes out to the missionary who does not receive regular mail from home. Generally a letter once a week is a good rule. But on the other hand, too much mail can be damaging to a missionary’s morale. To be effective a missionary has to move away from home; so the kind of mail he receives will make a vast difference in what he does and how he feels. Letters that set forth the problems at home, that dwell on the difficulties, hurt the morale of the missionary. Wise letter writers will be sure to state their positive feelings—how proud they are to have a missionary in the field, how the Lord is blessing them because of his work in the ministry. Such letters bless the life of a missionary” (Brian Kelly, “A Visit with Gordon B. Hinckley about Missionary Work,” New Era, June 1973, p. 32).