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Mormon church operates 14 missionary training centers around the world

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By Scott Taylor, Deseret News

Published: Tuesday, March 22 2011 10:23 p.m. MDT

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SALT LAKE CITY — For much of the past century, Utah understandably has been seen as the training hub for Mormon missionaries — with Salt Lake City the headquarters of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and host of the one-time Salt Lake Mission Home and with Provo the site of both the former BYU-based Language Training Mission and the current Provo Missionary Training Center.

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It's a conscious effort to provide the same spirit and same experience — such as videotaping the monthly Tuesday night devotional talk at the Provo MTC by a visiting member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. It is translated and then sent to be shown at the international MTCs.

"So when the Brethren speak to the missionaries here, they speak to missionaries in training everywhere."

And missionaries all over the world can see the Provo-based contingent of 2,000 strong and sense the magnitude of what they are a part of.

"I think it would be nice sitting there," said Sister Piroska Szvoboda of Switzerland, in the England MTC prior to serving in the Germany Berlin Mission. "But the spirit teaches you if you listen, and I'm glad to be here."

Email: taylor@desnews.com

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Johnny Triumph
American Fork, UT

It's all an amazing effort to spread truth and light to the world. Thanks for these stories.

  • 9:04 a.m. March 23, 2011
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RG
Buena Vista, VA

On my way home from my mission in Brasil, in the fall of 1988, we stopped at the Sao Paulo temple and the MTC was right next door. I remember hearing sometime in the subsequent years that Brasil got a new MTC, which is the one described in the More..

  • 6:24 a.m. March 23, 2011
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William Gronberg
Payson, UT

I was looking at the pictures of the 14 international MTCs and the world map provided in this mornings DN newspaper. The purpose of the world map is to add information about the location of these wonderful LDS facilities.

The following More..

  • 10:33 a.m. March 23, 2011
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With his Deseret News tenure beginning in 1984, Scott Taylor has worked as a reporter and/or editor for the newspapers City, Utah County, Sports, Olympics, LDS Church News and Faith/Ethics sections and has worked in seven more ..

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