739 AoN 36 New Missions of the Church?!

New Missions Announced for 2024

36 Additional Missions to be organized

Necessitated by an Increase in Missionaries since the Pandemic

2021 – 56,000

2022  – 62,500

2023 – 73,000

Largest increase of new missions since 2013 when 58 were announced

Total of 405 missions (85,000 serving in 2014), 411 in 2015.

Missions net decline from 2018 to 2020

Increase the total of missions to 450 – most at any time. 

Average missionaries in Mission 210 (2014) to 160 (2024)

6 previously closed missions will be reopened 

Modesto, Tallahassee, SLC East, Sendai, Hamburg, Porto

Missions with Large Geographies being divided 

Missoula, El Paso, Charleston, Manaus South, Cochabamba South, La Serena, Tecuman, Mexicali, Antananarivo 

New Missions for Large Populations 

Bangkok, Phnom Penh, Nairobi, Port Harcourt, Lima Northeast (7th mission), Dallas (4th), Henderson (3rd), Santo Domingo (3rd), Quito West (3rd), Puebla East (3rd), Accra (3rd), Kinshasa (3rd)

Most new missions in Africa for one year, many in outlying areas

Bo, Takoradi, Calabar, Kolwezi

Utah county – at least 1 companionship per stake 

Saratoga Spring, Spanish Fork

3 new in the Philippines (now 26 missions)

Brazil up to 37, Mexico up to 34.

Matt Martinich’s analysis of impact of birth rates on missionary numbers. 

Mail Bag 

Missoula Montana Temple

Colorado Spring Colorado Temple

Recommendation

Angles and Seer Stones Podcast

Episode 11: Jesus appears in the Temple

Temple Open House 

Lima Perú Los Olivos Temple

Media day on November 6th 

Open House November 10th to December 9th

Third City in the World to have two temples in its boundaries

After South Jordan and Provo. Will be followed by St George, Guatemala City, São Paulo, Mexico City, Santiago

49 Stakes in the Lima Metro Area

First temple located in La Molina, this temple is in San Martín de Porres (not Los Olivos). But olive trees in gardens

Temple Design 

Two-story, 47k sq. ft, white granite, simple art deco design. 

First large temple design to not have an angel Moroni in many decades.  

At the time the lack of Moroni was attributed to the absence of a tower. There was no tower because the temple looked very tall next to the buildings around it (semiurban feel) 

At the time it was described as harkening back to the Cardston/Laie/Mesa s...