She Made It!!

Soeur Nay made it to France.  President and Sister Babin sent an email with this picture letting us know that she had arrived safely this morning.

President and Soeur Babin

They also included this bit of advice. :) (Just in case any of you were planning to send packages)

 Our advice is to not send packages—if you want to treat your missionary, send money and let them spend it here. The reason for this is because packages are very often not received, if they are received they take a while to get out to the missionary, and, most often, the customs charges are exorbitant. If you list anything for over $25, the customs can be very expensive. Recently we received a package with a value of $50 and the missionary had to pay $56 in customs. We’ve had missionaries have to pay customs charges for over $100. So be aware!
If you do want to go ahead and send packages from home, we recommend sending all packages to the mission office addressed as follows:

Sœur (First and Last Name)
La Mission Française
131 Blvd Carnot code d’accès B25168, 2eme étage
78110 Le Vesinet
France

Reasons for sending packages to the mission office instead of to the missionary’s apartment:
•         Missionaries are frequently transferred and there is no guarantee that packages will arrive while they are still at a given address
•         The post office and other package carriers won't usually deliver to an address unless the correct name is on the mailbox (which usually isn't the case because of the transfer cycles)
•         Even with their name on the mailbox, your missionary must be home at the time of delivery (which hardly ever happens during the day with our hard-working missionaries)

So generally it just works much better for packages, especially, to come to the mission office. We collect them and send them out with missionaries in their zone/area when someone comes in to the office.  Letters may be sent to the office OR directly to the missionary’s apartment, if you can time it so they arrive while your missionary is at a specific address.

Here are a few pictures from her last full day at the MTC.

Elder Leavitt, Elder Seeman, Elder Epic, Soeur Spotts and Soeur Nay
Soeur Nay and Elder Leavitt are the only ones in this pic that went to Paris. The others went to Lyon. 

Elder Leavitt's Grandma sent them matching ties/coin purses