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  • Since the announcement of the age change by President Monson a year ago, the response

  • has been absolutely remarkable. At the time there were about 58,000 missionaries in the

  • field. Right now there are approaching 80,000 missionaries in the field. There’s hundreds

  • more couples out serving than there were a year ago. Every group of young missionaries

  • is up significantly. There are significantly more sister missionaries serving now than

  • there were before. It's gone from about 15 percent of the missionary force to about 24

  • percent during this past year. There's about 11,000 more sister missionaries serving than

  • there was a year ago. This rising generation is saying, "I can go.

  • I can see how this will fit into my life." And so they're making their plans accordingly.

  • They're structuring their education, their work opportunities and other things so that

  • they can go. And they're planning from their Young Women years to go. And although it's

  • not an obligation, it's clear that many young women are choosing missionary service as something

  • they want to do. And when one chooses that out of the desire of their hearts, they make

  • wonderful, wonderful missionaries. We hope that everybody remembers that not

  • only did President Monson call for more young missionaries, but he invited those who were

  • approaching retirement age, as their circumstances and health would allow, to leave home and

  • family and to dedicate a period of time to couple missionary service. And so we hope

  • that hundreds morethousands morewill accept that invitation, and we certainly have

  • wonderful places for them to work. To me I think the thing that I will always

  • remember has been this response by a group of young people, thousands of them, tens of

  • thousands of them, as they listen to a prophet and then simply said, "Yes, I'll do it." And

  • for me I'll never forget that. Whether it be the internal staff here at the

  • Missionary Department, or even whether it be the response by the Quorum of the Twelve

  • Apostles who makestill makeevery single missionary call, everyone has worked

  • to meet the need in a very timely manner. And as a result, there is no difference in

  • the amount of time that it takes from the time a stake president submits the calls until

  • the time someone receives their call. This younger group of missionaries is absolutely

  • wonderful. They are coming in anxious to learn; they are coming in in response to a call from

  • the prophet of God. They are coming in having, in many cases, their senior year in high school

  • having been far different than what they ever imagined it would be, where they have focused

  • all year long on getting ready for missionary service. They're coming in wanting to learn

  • and wanting to serve. They are younger. But they are worthy and they are able and they're

  • anxious to serve, and it's been an absolute joy working with them.

  • Before the announcement there were 48 countries where it was already permitted for 18 year

  • old young men who had graduated from high school to begin missionary service. … Really

  • it's the United States and North America which is coming into sync with some of the rest

  • of the world. Well, when you have a lot more missionaries

  • coming in, certain changes needed to be done. … At the Provo MTC, as an example, we've

  • developed what we call the West Campus, some facilities from BYU, which BYU has made available

  • to us. And in addition to that, an apartment complex which has been converted. … The

  • international MTCs are all running at capacity now. And wherever we've been able to increase

  • the capacity in those MTCs, those projects have been undertaken or ongoing. Perhaps the

  • biggest change, though, is not just the numbers and physically where we put people, but we've

  • looked at our entire training model and reduced training time at the MTCs by about 30 percent

  • whether you're learning a language or not learning a language. And that has allowed

  • not only a greater number of missionaries to go through, but allowed us to really look

  • at our training model and see if there's some things we can do to improve.

  • At the newly created missionary training center in Mexico we're seeing wonderful things happen.

  • In addition to Mexican missionaries and some missionaries from Latin America being trained

  • there who already speak Spanish as their native language, we have many North Americans who

  • are not going to serve in Mexico going to Mexico City now and being able to learn Spanish

  • in a Spanish speaking country in Mexico at the new MTC in Mexico City. It's a wonderful

  • blessing. As mission presidents receive larger groups

  • of missionaries, one of the things they've had to do is learn how to adapt. But the idea

  • that we treat every missionary as an individual worthy, wonderful young servant of God remains

  • true no matter how we have to adapt to larger numbers.

  • The wife of a mission president now is far more involved than she was before. Always,

  • of course, that's subject to their individual family circumstances and their personal circumstances.

  • But that said, particularly with larger numbers of sister missionaries, we are so grateful

  • for the personal involvement of the mission president's wife, working with, training,

  • helping resolve concerns, whatever it might be with regard to sister missionaries.

  • It seemed appropriate, given the large increase in the number of missionaries, including a

  • large increase in the number of sister missionaries, to look at the way missions are managed. … So

  • now the mission president's wife, the sister training leaders, together with the zone leaders,

  • the assistants, and the mission president, compose what is called the mission leadership

  • council. They meet together monthly; they counsel together about the needs of the mission.

  • They discuss problems, and we are observing just as in every other level of the Church

  • that when men and women of faith counsel together, there is a much better result than when we

  • do it any other way. We are profoundly grateful to the membership

  • of the Church for responding faithfully in tithes and offerings and, more recently and

  • significantly, to President Monson's invitation to make generous contributions toward missionary

  • funds and to the general missionary fund of the Church. Those funds are being utilized

  • to assist missionaries that otherwise would not be able to afford missionary service.

  • Elder Nelson made the comment in a recent conference address that for those couples

  • that are not yet able to serve, or perhaps might not ever be able to serve, they could

  • send their dollars on missions. And that was consistent with President Monson's more direct

  • invitation to contribute specifically to the general missionary fund of the Church. And

  • we hope that everybody will continue to respond to that because that's the way that thousands

  • upon thousands of missionaries are able to be supported.

  • Missionary work is core to the fundamental purposes of the Restoration of the gospel.

  • And so we view this as a time when the Lord has made available the resources to support

  • the missionary fund and also the resource to do the work of salvation.

  • Social media and technology is a wonderful development for missionary work. The first

  • thing to remember is that missionaries will do what they've always done, which is that

  • they will preach the gospel. … They'll be able to communicate in ways that they haven't

  • been able to before. And so missionaries in many test missions have been using social

  • media, primarily Facebook, to communicate with ward members, ward mission leaders, bishops,

  • investigators, new members, the less-active and others. And it's proven to be very, very

  • effective. We view this development as one of the most

  • significant things to have happened in missionary work. But again, it's a tool to accomplish

  • the purpose of the work of salvation and preaching the gospel. It's not in and of itself something

  • that's going to change. Missionaries are still going to preach the gospel; the number of

  • tools that they have available to them is going to expand.

  • We hope for greater communication, not just by Facebook, but by using a range of tools

  • that are going to become available. Some of it will be social media; some of it will be

  • access to devices which will allow for communication, something like a small tablet device or perhaps

  • a smartphone in some parts of the world. The implementation will not be the same everywhere.

  • In some parts of the world there's robust Internet access, and in some parts of the

  • world there's not. The rollout is underway. We're still in a test mode. But by sometime

  • next year, in 2014, we anticipate that this technology and the use of digital devices

  • will begin to be broadly available throughout all of the world where it's safe to do so

  • and where we can legally do so. Missionary work is an act of love. It's a

  • free-will offering whether you're an elder or a sister. There is no compulsion in the

  • Church of Jesus Christ. Part of that active love, wherever you go, is to serve the people

  • wherever you're serving. And when that is done with the proper motivation of just wanting

  • to help and be of service, without any expectation of reward, what we find is that the people

  • love the missionaries and the missionaries love the people. And there is a bond that

  • is developed that perhaps can't be developed in any other way. At times we provide the

  • service and get nothing back. At times we provide the service and what we receive back

  • is the love and the affection of those people that we've served.

  • I think that this is a time of great enthusiasm, not just by a young generation rising up and

  • sayingYes, I'll go on a mission,” but by members and their leaders understanding

  • that now is the time tofurther every aspect of the work of salvation.

Since the announcement of the age change by President Monson a year ago, the response

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モルモン宣教奉仕の年齢変化の影響 - 一年後 (Impact of Mormon Missionary Service Age Change — One Year Later)

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