Here's Dallon's email from 9 November 2011:
First I have to say sorry mom!! I really meant to send it to both you and dad, I´m not quite sure what happened! I´m starting to get more emails now :) so I was kind of rushed last time. You asked who´s written me, and I actually got a DearElder.com letter today from Tosha! Haven´t heard from her until now. I also got an email from Deborah, and letters from all the sisters (sure you know that) and also Saundra and Jocelyn. Aunt Lisa sent me some postcards from Disneyland a couple weeks ago too! It´s been a lot of fun to read about life outside of the mission!
Life here has started to settle into a routine. The first week or two we had no idea what we were supposed to do and when we are supposed to do it. Now everything is routine, and I love it! We´ve been reading the Book of Mormon like crazy! We´re supposed to just read super fast, but I´ve been like mentally obsessed about reading. It´s amazing how you can just feast on the words of Christ. I´m in 3 Nephi right now, almost finished with it, and I just love the teachings of Christ to the people. It truly strengthens my testimony each and every time I open it up.
Today we got to go to the temple! I decided I´m cursed with never finding pants in my size. This time instead of having just really short legs, I had short legs AND it was HUGE around my waist. Someone half my height that weighs 3 times as much could have worn them. Haha, and there weren´t any belt loops! needless to say, I felt a little ridiculous, but at least in the temple, it doesn´t matter that much. The temple here is just so peaceful. Today I did it without a translator, which was difficult, but I understood all of it-thanks to the fact we went so much before that I practically have it memorized! Thank you so much for that-all of the family! I´m so grateful that we were able to go through together, and so often too!
The language is starting to get a little easier. Before, making a sentence was SO difficult because they have almost 14 different tenses. We pretty much have past, present, and future! Now I´m learning so many different tenses, the language is just beautiful. Constructing sentences is just fun! I still don´t really know how to talk to someone about things other than the gospel but hey! That´s what I´m here to do.
It´s definitely NOT cold here! I´ve been dying almost every night of heat! It´s around 80 degrees here every day, and Lima is pretty humid. The city here is pretty amazing! There are tons of cars, just like the states, but all of the streets are pretty much two lanes. The bus drivers are pretty crazy, and they definitely pack people in there. I have to pretty much bend in half to get in, and today I bumped my head 100 times during the 5 minute ride, it was insane! The people are SUPER friendly. I can start talking to anyone, and they´ll talk to me. They say hi to everyone on the street, it´s like a small town. The culture in Peru is the best! The houses are all pretty small, nothing like the states, and I haven´t seen a single house that had any sort of yard. There are some pretty nice houses-with electric wire going around the top of there cinderblock walls. :) Most of the houses are kind of like townhomes, and they are all right next to each other. Of course the only houses I see are from the temple to Torros, which is pretty much a Wal-Mart, but mostly food.
Our teaching has started to get a little bit more intense! It´s still just teachers acting like investigators, but one of them has a law of chastity problem, he´s living with his girlfriend, and the other one is named Carolina. Her mother died when she was young, Carolina knows everything about the church, and we´re just trying to get her to have a testimony. It´s amazing, when you think about it, how many people KNOW the truth, yet are unwilling to do anything about it. I think you´ve all seen that in the states too. They know the church is true, they just aren´t willing to take the steps. That´s going to frustrate me, I´m sure, because it´s their eternal salvation that they really should be thinking about.
Ah, only 3 minutes left! So many spiritual things happened this week, and I can´t even remember them all. We talked quite a bit about attending church and how important that is. I must say, I have truly been blessed by us attending church each and every week. The opportunities to renew our covenants and feel the spirit so strong in that dedicated building is just the best blessing ever.
I know this church is true and that this work is so very important to our Heavenly Father. The spirit can be with us all, every single day, guiding us to those that stand in need if we remain worthy. Remember that I love you all, and more importantly our Heavenly Father loves you. Pray, ever single day-real, fervent, unhurried prayers. It will bless you so much.
Love,
Elder Schofield
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Here is Dallon's email from 3 November 2011:
Ok, so now that I´m sort of adjusted, I can write a real email to you. :) This has been such an amazing experience, and I don´t even know where to start. The MTC here is a lot different from Provo, and I like most of the differences. The MTC president, President Cavanaugh, is only temporary because the last MTC president died about a month ago. :( He felt sick and went to the hospital, a week later he died. Very sad, but I love Pres. Cavanaugh.
Spanish has been coming very rapidly here! Talking with my latino companion is so great, and we´ve taught two lessons together so far. He is such a great guy! He learned English from Star Wars, which I think is pretty awesome, and he knows Bob Marly and many other songs. His favorite phrase is "don´t worry, be happy," especailly when I´m trying to understand something difficult in Spanish that he´s saying. He is definitely a blessing in these first 3 weeks here.
The food here has been the best. They have a catering company and it is just to die for. We have the most amazing bread every day, and it makes me sad that we can only take two small little rolls, because it is so delicious! I´ve only had one thing that wasn´t good-it was kind of an apple sauce thing, but it was chunky apples with a sauce inside. The sauce was...well...let´s just say it had the consistancy and taste of cow slober. It was disgusting. The apples were amazing! The sauce...not so much. One of the rules here is that you have to eat everything on your plate, so that was a long dinner for me ;) The other food has been amazing! Rice with everything, but eggs, roast beef, chicken, soups, it´s all been really good. They also have some sort of fruit drink with everything! My favorite so far is the watermelon juice. :) very delicious!
We've had some pretty awesome experiences here. One of the elders decided to go home...which was really sad, but we had a testimony meeting after he ended up leaving, called by Zone President Littell (my old comp) that was just amazing. I got up and talked about how mom has always told me about her missionaries, and how I've learned more and more about the worth of souls while I've been out here. I can't even tell you how much love I feel as a missionary. For all of you at home, for my companions, and for the people of Peru. They are so funny, I love their little manarisms!
Well, I don't have much time! Keep the letters/emails coming! I love hearing from all of you, it makes my week amazing!! I'm glad Greg included a little about the NBA lockout and the Aggie football status...can't say I'm suprised by it. If I could give you one piece of advice this would be it: pray before EVERYTHING! I mean everything. I say a prayer almost every half hour, and I know that Heavenly Father has been blessing me with his Spirit constantly. Everyone can have this feeling of the Spirit with them constantly. He wants to give it to us, we have only to ask.
Oh, another rule here is pictures only on P-days, so I won't have many pictures from here, so don't think I'm slacking mom. ;) they'll come eventually! Love you all!
Love,
Elder Schofield
P.S. You think Americans have a hard time with our name? It takes Latinos like 5 minutes to even try our name...kinda funny. :)
Ok, so now that I´m sort of adjusted, I can write a real email to you. :) This has been such an amazing experience, and I don´t even know where to start. The MTC here is a lot different from Provo, and I like most of the differences. The MTC president, President Cavanaugh, is only temporary because the last MTC president died about a month ago. :( He felt sick and went to the hospital, a week later he died. Very sad, but I love Pres. Cavanaugh.
Spanish has been coming very rapidly here! Talking with my latino companion is so great, and we´ve taught two lessons together so far. He is such a great guy! He learned English from Star Wars, which I think is pretty awesome, and he knows Bob Marly and many other songs. His favorite phrase is "don´t worry, be happy," especailly when I´m trying to understand something difficult in Spanish that he´s saying. He is definitely a blessing in these first 3 weeks here.
The food here has been the best. They have a catering company and it is just to die for. We have the most amazing bread every day, and it makes me sad that we can only take two small little rolls, because it is so delicious! I´ve only had one thing that wasn´t good-it was kind of an apple sauce thing, but it was chunky apples with a sauce inside. The sauce was...well...let´s just say it had the consistancy and taste of cow slober. It was disgusting. The apples were amazing! The sauce...not so much. One of the rules here is that you have to eat everything on your plate, so that was a long dinner for me ;) The other food has been amazing! Rice with everything, but eggs, roast beef, chicken, soups, it´s all been really good. They also have some sort of fruit drink with everything! My favorite so far is the watermelon juice. :) very delicious!
We've had some pretty awesome experiences here. One of the elders decided to go home...which was really sad, but we had a testimony meeting after he ended up leaving, called by Zone President Littell (my old comp) that was just amazing. I got up and talked about how mom has always told me about her missionaries, and how I've learned more and more about the worth of souls while I've been out here. I can't even tell you how much love I feel as a missionary. For all of you at home, for my companions, and for the people of Peru. They are so funny, I love their little manarisms!
Well, I don't have much time! Keep the letters/emails coming! I love hearing from all of you, it makes my week amazing!! I'm glad Greg included a little about the NBA lockout and the Aggie football status...can't say I'm suprised by it. If I could give you one piece of advice this would be it: pray before EVERYTHING! I mean everything. I say a prayer almost every half hour, and I know that Heavenly Father has been blessing me with his Spirit constantly. Everyone can have this feeling of the Spirit with them constantly. He wants to give it to us, we have only to ask.
Oh, another rule here is pictures only on P-days, so I won't have many pictures from here, so don't think I'm slacking mom. ;) they'll come eventually! Love you all!
Love,
Elder Schofield
P.S. You think Americans have a hard time with our name? It takes Latinos like 5 minutes to even try our name...kinda funny. :)
Thursday, October 27, 2011
I'm Here!!!
WE WERE SO EXCITED TO GET THIS TODAY!!!
So many things are different here! It´s really different, and this keyboard is actually really hard to type on as well because there are various buttons that just aren´t on a normal computer!
So the plane ride was very uneventful, and I ended up sitting next to missionaries so I didn´t really have a chance to talk to any Peruvians, which was probably a good thing because I bet they would have gone off in Spanish and I wouldn´t have understood anything! However, it was a good opportunity for me to study the scriptures and prepare for landing. I really appreciated all the food and letters that you had sent me!
Oh! That reminds me, before I forget, the MTC here said no packages, and they would really prefer that you send pouch mail. That´s because you have to pay customs in order to have packages come here and it just doesn´t work well. Maybe when I get out to Piura, but for now it´s probably just best to email me, and anyone is actually allowed to email me at this MTC! They also asked that you don´t send letters starting the fourth week of my stay here. They said you can just send them to my Piura address. I´m not sure if you have that or not, I have it somewhere but not with me, but I´ll try to email it to you next time regardless.
This is definitely going to be a tough learning experience! They hardly speak any English, and my companion, Elder Moreño, doesn´t speak hardly any english. The only times I´ve seen him was when we got to the MTC at 2 am, when he woke me up at about 8, and when we had lunch together. We were pointing at food and trying to translate the words for them for each other, it´s difficult. He is from Chile, and I know that because it said so on my papers I got when I arrived. :) I´ll learn to speak more Spanish, and I do know quite a bit, but we haven´t really had opportunities to talk yet.
I haven´t seen any dogs with fruit around their necks, but when I do I´ll let you know! The MTC here is way nicer than at the Provo MTC! The rooms are a lot nicer, as well as all of the buildings. Lunch was delicious, but another rule was that they had to take all of my food away. :( so now I just have what they´re feeding me, which is fine, I don´t want to get fat! My mind right now is just spinning around and around, it doesn´t seem like that different of a country, just like a humid Phoenix really. Sorry my letter just really doesn´t make sense, I can´t seem to make any sense of what´s going on right now anyway.
All is well, I´m safe, happy, and well fed. My companion and I are going to get along great, he seems super nice, and I´m excited to explore a little more of Lima! We can actually go outside on P days here. Spanish is coming slow...but I know that as I get more into things I´ll find I know a lot more than I think. The MTC here will be a lot better for me I think. It will give me room to breath, as well as challenge me. If I had stayed at Provo, I definitely wouldn´t have progressed as fast. Heavenly Father definitely knows the best way for me to learn and progress.
Along with the challenge of Spanish, the MTC president here has some strict rules and tough goals for us. One of these is to read the BOM every 3 weeks. The problem with that is we can only read during our off time, when we have nothing to do. This literally means we have maybe one hour each day to read almost 30 pages. It will be challenging, but I know that I´ll be blessed for that. We are also supposed to read 2 to 3 pages in the Missionary Handbook each day, which is fairly easy to do. I hope that I can follow all the rules here like at Provo, and make sure that I can focus during all my study time. It´s already been a challenge here. We´ve had from 1 to 6 to just do whatever we want! I don´t like that. Too much time to think, too much of an opportunity to be lazy. The two other companions in my room slept through our email time, so right now we are using teacher´s computers in order to email. Well I should probably go. I love you all! Sorry this email is so confusing, random, and scrambled. That´s kind of how I feel right now. Being out of the country is definitely a new experience!
Con amor,
Elder Schofield
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE- Dallon explained that we should email him the email address is dallon.schofield@myldsmail.net
So many things are different here! It´s really different, and this keyboard is actually really hard to type on as well because there are various buttons that just aren´t on a normal computer!
So the plane ride was very uneventful, and I ended up sitting next to missionaries so I didn´t really have a chance to talk to any Peruvians, which was probably a good thing because I bet they would have gone off in Spanish and I wouldn´t have understood anything! However, it was a good opportunity for me to study the scriptures and prepare for landing. I really appreciated all the food and letters that you had sent me!
Oh! That reminds me, before I forget, the MTC here said no packages, and they would really prefer that you send pouch mail. That´s because you have to pay customs in order to have packages come here and it just doesn´t work well. Maybe when I get out to Piura, but for now it´s probably just best to email me, and anyone is actually allowed to email me at this MTC! They also asked that you don´t send letters starting the fourth week of my stay here. They said you can just send them to my Piura address. I´m not sure if you have that or not, I have it somewhere but not with me, but I´ll try to email it to you next time regardless.
This is definitely going to be a tough learning experience! They hardly speak any English, and my companion, Elder Moreño, doesn´t speak hardly any english. The only times I´ve seen him was when we got to the MTC at 2 am, when he woke me up at about 8, and when we had lunch together. We were pointing at food and trying to translate the words for them for each other, it´s difficult. He is from Chile, and I know that because it said so on my papers I got when I arrived. :) I´ll learn to speak more Spanish, and I do know quite a bit, but we haven´t really had opportunities to talk yet.
I haven´t seen any dogs with fruit around their necks, but when I do I´ll let you know! The MTC here is way nicer than at the Provo MTC! The rooms are a lot nicer, as well as all of the buildings. Lunch was delicious, but another rule was that they had to take all of my food away. :( so now I just have what they´re feeding me, which is fine, I don´t want to get fat! My mind right now is just spinning around and around, it doesn´t seem like that different of a country, just like a humid Phoenix really. Sorry my letter just really doesn´t make sense, I can´t seem to make any sense of what´s going on right now anyway.
All is well, I´m safe, happy, and well fed. My companion and I are going to get along great, he seems super nice, and I´m excited to explore a little more of Lima! We can actually go outside on P days here. Spanish is coming slow...but I know that as I get more into things I´ll find I know a lot more than I think. The MTC here will be a lot better for me I think. It will give me room to breath, as well as challenge me. If I had stayed at Provo, I definitely wouldn´t have progressed as fast. Heavenly Father definitely knows the best way for me to learn and progress.
Along with the challenge of Spanish, the MTC president here has some strict rules and tough goals for us. One of these is to read the BOM every 3 weeks. The problem with that is we can only read during our off time, when we have nothing to do. This literally means we have maybe one hour each day to read almost 30 pages. It will be challenging, but I know that I´ll be blessed for that. We are also supposed to read 2 to 3 pages in the Missionary Handbook each day, which is fairly easy to do. I hope that I can follow all the rules here like at Provo, and make sure that I can focus during all my study time. It´s already been a challenge here. We´ve had from 1 to 6 to just do whatever we want! I don´t like that. Too much time to think, too much of an opportunity to be lazy. The two other companions in my room slept through our email time, so right now we are using teacher´s computers in order to email. Well I should probably go. I love you all! Sorry this email is so confusing, random, and scrambled. That´s kind of how I feel right now. Being out of the country is definitely a new experience!
Con amor,
Elder Schofield
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE- Dallon explained that we should email him the email address is dallon.schofield@myldsmail.net
One Last View from home...
Dallon left for Peru this past Wednesday, October 26th. We had a call from him while he was at the airport. He couldn't have been flying any higher if he had actually been on the 747 on his way to Dallas.
His Provo MTC companion, Elder Littel traveled with him to the Lima, Peru MTC. They were the only two Elders from their district to head out on that flight. Two others will travel to Lima later.
Dallon has really enjoyed him as a companion! We feel blessed that Dallon got a great person and very hard worker for his first comp. Their teacher Hermano Hopkins said these two were the best and brightest in the district :)
Dallon's MTC District-
From Left to right-
Elder Mullenbach, Miller,Agrem, Cowdin (shorter one), Hutchinson, Bracanonte, Jarman (taller behin Brac), Littel, Dallon, Cook and Hanes.
This Photo- Left to Right- Dallon, Elder Littel, Elder Cook and Elder Jarman.
These are the four Elders from the district who are going to Peru. Missionaries are trained in districts according to the language they are learning. The Elders from Dallon's district are going to places as varied as Florida, Arizona, Peru and many others.
Dallon's Last letter from the Provo MTC-
"WOW! My last p-day at the Provo MTC is here already! It's so crazy!!! My companion and I are way excited to be leaving!! It's going to be an incredible adventure!!!
I've made so many friends while I've been here, and I am going to miss them. My district has had a lot of fun times.
Tuesday was so incredible!! Richard G Scott came and talked to us! He shared some amazing council. One of the things he said that I liked was that we need to seek prayer in an unhurried manner. I've tried to do that the past week and I have definitely seen a difference.
Being here has been such an incredible experience. Yesterday, we taught two lessons about the Book of Mormon and the Restoration to our investigators, Fabriccio (Hermano Hopkin) and Mario (Hermano Farnsworth). We spoke in Spanish the ENTIRE time. Yo se que dros ha bendizir con de don de lengues. It's just incredible to feel that blessing.
One of the great guys here is Elder Doolhoff. He is an amazing Elder. Can't tell you how many times he came and talked to me when I was having a bad night or something. He really welcomed us to the MTC. Elder Gerber, his companion, is very fun. They are both going to the Phoenix Spanish Speaking Mission. Elder Cowdon is our District Leader and he is an amazing Elder. He has a strong spirit and helps us all. His comp, Elder Hanes, provides entertainment and excitement to everything. I'll miss him!
The MTC has been great so far. I'm really trying to establish habits that will last through my mission. It seems like we never have enough time to study but I'm working hard at it. My companion and I were able to speak with a teacher last night, and he gave us some pointers to help us study. I'm excited to try some of them!
One last spiritual thought, because it hit me so HARD when I heard it. Matthew 16:26 "For what is a man profiteth if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?" When I read that, I thought of what the whole world entails. Think about it, God created the world, the trees, animals, shrubs, terrain, etc. The technology, the money, the houses, all of it! That's "the whole world." But ONE soul is worth more than all of that. I've really tried to apply that to my purpose as a missionary. Every companion, investigator, and person on the street is worth more than "the whole world!" I can't remember who said it but a quote comes to mind. "Be careful who you step over in the street. You may be stepping over a king." I know that Heavenly Father loves every single one of us. He wants us to be happy and to realize how much more important our eternal salvation is worth compared to our lives here on earth. I'm excited to be able to go out and really affect others with the spirit that He has blessed me with. I know that He will show me how much He loves his children.
I hope everyone that reads this knows how much you mean to me. Each of you have had a lasting effect on me and I know that you are worth more than "the whole world." Never forget that! Family, friends, acquaintences, and even those I haven't met yet - you are loved. You are worth more than we can ever realize while we are one the earth. I pray for you all every night. Know that our Heavenly Father loves you as well.
I hope all is safe and well at home. Wish everyone luck and please make sure they read this because I was thinking each one of you in connection to this. I love you all!
Quiero ustedas,
Dallon
***Note from Mom... a letter will take 3-6 weeks to get to Dallon. A package approx 8-10 weeks- DON'T Forget to write him ;D
Sunday, October 23, 2011
5,4,3,2,1... Blastoff!
Blastoff... Salt Lake City, Dallas, Miami.... Lima, Peru!
This week, Wednesday, our missionary heads off to Peru. The visas came through, flights are booked and he is PUMPED!!!- to say the least :).
It's strange thinking of him being half a world away. He will spend four weeks at the Peruvian Missiionary Training center in Lima. After finishing his language and skills training there he will be sent to a city or village in the Piura, Peru mission. His Spanish should improve drastically during his time at the Lima MTC. Usually at a foreign MTC, the missionaries are paired with a "native" companion. This helps the language progression drastically! In a recent letter to his Grandfather Dallon said,"I know God is with me. He is blessing me as I learn this new language. With his support, I am amazed at how quickly my language skills are progressing".
Dallon will be in a warm, humid area. Temperatures range from about 50 degrees to 90 degrees with between 40 and 90% humidity. The terrain is varied with one portion of Piura being beautiful resort beach towns (Crystal clear waters, waving palms, white sand beaches) and the other being brown, brown, brown. (Homes are built with corrigated tin, cardboard and whatever the people may have. There is little to no plant life and the ground is hard packed clay and dirt.)
Dallon has already been blessed with so many great "coincidences". Besides our next door neighbors' brother being his teacher here at the Provo MTC, we have friends of 20 years who were his Branch President(ecclesiastical leader) and wife while he was in the Provo MTC. We learned from them, there son in law's parents will be Dallon's MTC President and wife in Lima! He will have "family" connections wherever he is!
As the time draws near for him to leave, we'd like to remind evryone to write him often! Mail and the spirit are a missionary's life blood! Here's the address:
Packages or letters sent via DHL: Dallon Cory Schofield
Peru' Piura Mission
Calle Los Naranjos Mz H, Lp 4
Urb. Los Geranios
Piura
PERU
Letters via Pouch mail: Elder Dallon Schofield
Peru" Piura Mission
POB 30150
Salt Lake City Utah 84130-0150
Pouch mail MUST be done as follows: Items leave in pouch mail each Friday. Items sent after pouch leaves will be held until the following Friday. Only postcards or one pages correspondance may be sent through pouch mail. Notebook or other lightweight paper will not process through the USPS machines. Photographs are not acceptable.
Letters must follow these direction: Lay the blank letter side down. Fold the bottom of the letter about one third of the way up the page and crease. Fold the top of the letter to the bottom and crease. Secure the long side with two pieces of tape about one inch from each end, but do not seal the ends. In the top left corner write your name and complete return address. Affix first class postage in the upper right corner. In the middle write the missionary address.
DHL will definetly be faster. I am told the cost is about $3. A letter through DHL will go directly to Dallon (when we have an address) and should take about three weeks. Pouch mail goes to the mission home first, then out to Dallon. It will take 4-6 weeks minimum to get to him:)
This week, Wednesday, our missionary heads off to Peru. The visas came through, flights are booked and he is PUMPED!!!- to say the least :).
It's strange thinking of him being half a world away. He will spend four weeks at the Peruvian Missiionary Training center in Lima. After finishing his language and skills training there he will be sent to a city or village in the Piura, Peru mission. His Spanish should improve drastically during his time at the Lima MTC. Usually at a foreign MTC, the missionaries are paired with a "native" companion. This helps the language progression drastically! In a recent letter to his Grandfather Dallon said,"I know God is with me. He is blessing me as I learn this new language. With his support, I am amazed at how quickly my language skills are progressing".
Dallon will be in a warm, humid area. Temperatures range from about 50 degrees to 90 degrees with between 40 and 90% humidity. The terrain is varied with one portion of Piura being beautiful resort beach towns (Crystal clear waters, waving palms, white sand beaches) and the other being brown, brown, brown. (Homes are built with corrigated tin, cardboard and whatever the people may have. There is little to no plant life and the ground is hard packed clay and dirt.)
Dallon has already been blessed with so many great "coincidences". Besides our next door neighbors' brother being his teacher here at the Provo MTC, we have friends of 20 years who were his Branch President(ecclesiastical leader) and wife while he was in the Provo MTC. We learned from them, there son in law's parents will be Dallon's MTC President and wife in Lima! He will have "family" connections wherever he is!
As the time draws near for him to leave, we'd like to remind evryone to write him often! Mail and the spirit are a missionary's life blood! Here's the address:
Packages or letters sent via DHL: Dallon Cory Schofield
Peru' Piura Mission
Calle Los Naranjos Mz H, Lp 4
Urb. Los Geranios
Piura
PERU
Letters via Pouch mail: Elder Dallon Schofield
Peru" Piura Mission
POB 30150
Salt Lake City Utah 84130-0150
Pouch mail MUST be done as follows: Items leave in pouch mail each Friday. Items sent after pouch leaves will be held until the following Friday. Only postcards or one pages correspondance may be sent through pouch mail. Notebook or other lightweight paper will not process through the USPS machines. Photographs are not acceptable.
Letters must follow these direction: Lay the blank letter side down. Fold the bottom of the letter about one third of the way up the page and crease. Fold the top of the letter to the bottom and crease. Secure the long side with two pieces of tape about one inch from each end, but do not seal the ends. In the top left corner write your name and complete return address. Affix first class postage in the upper right corner. In the middle write the missionary address.
DHL will definetly be faster. I am told the cost is about $3. A letter through DHL will go directly to Dallon (when we have an address) and should take about three weeks. Pouch mail goes to the mission home first, then out to Dallon. It will take 4-6 weeks minimum to get to him:)
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