Email: IICM Welcome Packet (Iowa Iowa City Mission Office)

Snapshot

Welcome packet email from the Iowa Iowa City Mission office to Jason and Kristi, addressed as "Mr. and Mrs. Jason Heywood." Sent by Sister Morgan (Mission Secretary) on May 15, 2026, about seven weeks before Natalie's online MTC start (July 8) and two months before her in-person Provo report date (July 15). Contains pre-MTC study assignments, the standing weekly Sunday devotional invitation, the mission's Facebook group setup requirement, the full mission office staff contact list, a note about shared responsibility for mission vehicles, and four docx attachments (President and Sister Stone bio, sister-missionary clothing list, FAQ, elder-missionary clothing list). Notable: the IICM Facebook group title gives President Stone's tenure as 2025-2028.

Pre-MTC Study Assignments

Sister Morgan flags three concrete pre-MTC items Natalie should begin working on before arriving:

• Memorize the missionary purpose (Preach My Gospel, page 1).
• Memorize Joseph Smith's First Vision account (Preach My Gospel, chapter 3, page 39).
• Read chapters 1-5 of Preach My Gospel.

Framed within the mission's "Preach My Gospel study and scholarship program," described as an inspired learning experience to deepen gospel understanding through the mission.

Sunday Evening Devotional

The mission holds a weekly mission-wide Sunday devotional that includes missionaries and their families. Jason and Kristi are invited as Natalie's parents.

• Time: Sundays, 9:00 PM Central Time (8:00 PM Mountain).
• Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5157455903?pwd=NngxNUxaWG1FdGFmcEhoWEVQRjFUUT09
• Passcode: iicm

Facebook Group Requirement

The mission uses Facebook Messenger for zone/district communication, direction from President and Sister Stone, office staff, other mission departments, and family-missionary contact throughout the mission. Natalie must have a Facebook account set up with known username and password before entering the MTC.

The mission Facebook group, used by families for pictures and mission news:

• Group title: "Iowa Iowa City Mission 2025-2028 - President and Sister Stone"
• Link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/734356052430796/
• Joining: families must answer membership questions when requesting to join so the mission can verify their connection to a missionary.

The 2025-2028 in the group title is a useful detail: it bounds President Stone's tenure (he assumed in 2025; his three-year window ends mid-2028, which is after Natalie's projected January 2028 return from her 18-month assignment that begins July 2026).

Mission Office Staff Contacts

Four office staff named for any specific questions outside the FAQ or Missionary Portal:

The 707 area code on both Sister Morgan and Elder Morgan suggests they are a senior-missionary couple from Northern California.

Mission Vehicle Note

Sister Morgan flags that even non-driving missionaries share responsibility with their companion for the care and safe use of their assigned mission vehicle. She frames the responsibility as a habit-building stewardship covering attitude, accountability, obedience, and safety.

She also recommends Natalie complete the recent updates to the driving qualification process before entering the MTC, rather than at or after the MTC.

Clothing Standards

Sister Morgan refers Jason and Kristi to the official dress and appearance guidelines before any purchases: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/callings/missionary/dress-and-appearance?lang=eng. The two sister-missionary and elder-missionary clothing list attachments give the mission's recommendations alongside the official guidelines.

Attachments

Four docx files accompanied the email. Not separately ingested; surfaced here for awareness:

1. Todd Kerrie Stone IICM Bio.docx (119K) - extended biography of President and Sister Stone. Ingested separately at 2026-05-15_document_iicm-mission-president-bio.
2. Sisters-Recommended Clothing Items.docx (17K) - sister-missionary clothing recommendations specific to Iowa weather and IICM expectations.
3. FAQs - Sec'y Welcome Attachment Nov 2025 Revised.docx (205K) - mission-specific FAQ, revised November 2025.
4. Elders-Recommended Clothing Items.docx (17K) - elder-missionary equivalent of the sisters' list.

If Jason wants any of these filed as their own document sources, they can drop them into Sources/01_to_process/ and the document ingest will pick them up.

Welcome Letter from President and Sister Stone

Sister Morgan notes that newly called missionaries should have received a separate welcome email directly from President and Sister Stone at their missionary.org email address. That email is sent to Natalie's 2011328@ChurchofJesuschrist.org Church-provided account, not to Jason and Kristi's home email. If Natalie has logged into her missionary email account, that welcome email is likely in there and could be forwarded for ingest separately.

Source Notes

• Email was forwarded into chat by Jason on 2026-05-21 (six days after receipt). No .eml file was preserved; the body above is the cleaned version of the pasted email text.
• The mission email address 2011328@churchofjesuschrist.org matches the address on Natalie's mission call packet.
• The mission office phone (319) 351-2976 and address 2730 Bradford Drive, Iowa City IA 52240 match the call packet.
• All Church-internal links (Zoom, Facebook) preserved as written.