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Single senior missionaries can choose to serve for six, 12, 18, or 23 months. They should expect to live away from their home and spend 40 hours a week serving. They will not serve in companionships.
In 1979, two senior sister missionaries were murdered in Berkeley County, South Carolina and one was raped. [111] In 1989, the Zarate Willka Armed Forces of Liberation killed two American missionaries in Bolivia. [109] From 1999 to 2006, three LDS missionaries were murdered worldwide, while 22 died in accidents of some sort. [112]
Unlike younger missionaries, these senior missionaries may serve in non-proselytizing capacities such as humanitarian aid workers or family history specialists. [183] Other men and women who wish to serve a mission but are unable to perform full-time service in another state or country due to health issues, may serve in a non-proselytizing mission.
Missionary Training Centers (MTC) are centers devoted to training missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). The flagship MTC is located in Provo, Utah , adjacent to the campus of Brigham Young University (BYU), a private university owned and operated by the church.
This committee standardized the age requirements for young men to be ordained to the office of Teacher or Priest. [5] Before that time there were not set ages for ordination. A priest who turns 18 years old, or graduates from high school, depending on the situation, is integrated into the elders quorum.
The Apostles are regarded as the senior missionary team in the church, but the specific calling of the seventy and the quorums which they belong to, is also missionary work, and so, to some degree, they fall under the direction of the Apostles, however, as there were 11 fields, and seven quorums, there was always some overlap with global ...
The geographical area a mission actually covers is typically much larger than the name may indicate; most areas of the world are within the jurisdiction of a mission of the church. In the list below, if the name of the mission does not include a specific city, the city where the mission headquarters is located is included in parentheses.
According to the LDS Church's Doctrine and Covenants, the duty of an elder is to "teach, expound, exhort, baptize, and watch over the church." [2] Elders have the authority to administer to and bless the sick and afflicted, to "confirm those who are baptized into the church, by the laying on of hands for the baptism of fire and the Holy Ghost", [3] to baptize and give others the Aaronic or ...