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Provo neighbors have mixed views on proposed MTC building
Driving south on Provo's University Avenue on a clear Saturday morning, orange balloons dot the sky. The closer one comes to their source, a house on Lambert Lane, more come into view. A handful of neighbors fill the balloons, tie them to strings at least 160 feet long and place them in their...
Residents upset by plans for 9-story building at Missionary Training Center
Pleasant View neighborhood residents weren’t satisfied after a presentation on plans for a nine-story building at the LDS Missionary Training Center. "I wonder why [The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] didn’t contact the people before they hired the architects," said resident Kay...
Elder David Archuleta at the MTC - as seen by fellow elders and sisters
Mormon Life says: Missionaries in the MTC are writing home about Elder David Archuleta. Read what they have to say.
Murray native and "American Idol" finalist David Archuleta began his journey to become a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by entering the Missionary Training Center in...
LDS Church, neighbors clash over proposed 9-story MTC building
Mormon Life says: Most people oppose the building, which will be as tall as the LaVell Edwards Stadium.
That meeting held for neighbors by the Missionary Training Center on Thursday sounded a lot like LDS missionaries knocking on the door of a non-believer: one side believes that when the prophet...
New nine-story MTC building the subject of meeting between LDS Church, neighbors
Mormon Life says: A lot of people are concerned the building will block their view.
When neighbors of the Missionary Training Center of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints gather Thursday evening to talk to church officials about plans to build a new nine-story building...
MTC prepares for new nine-story building
Mormon Life says: The old dormitory is finally being replaced.
Provo will receive a towering new landmark when The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints completes its planned new nine-story building on the Missionary Training Center campus. ...
Elder Holland tells Ghanaian saints to be their best
While completing an area review in Accra, Ghana, Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles met with area office employees, missionaries, and members, and encouraged them to reach their potential in their different capacities. Shortly after traveling from nearby Liberia,...
A jubilee year for missionary language instruction
Three years after the Church was organized, the Lord decreed that "every man shall hear the fulness of the gospel in his own tongue, and in his own language, through those who are ordained unto this power" (Doctrine and Covenants 90:11).Today's missionary training centers — including the first one...
MTC celebrates 50-year anniversary with devotional
Fifty years ago last year, newly called missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints going to two foreign-language missions began receiving preparatory language instruction in Provo prior to their departure. "Tonight, we join in joyous jubilee to commemorate 50 years of...
Elder Zwick counsels leaders 'to let the Spirit guide them'
When the resurrected Lord Jesus Christ visited the Nephites and instructed them, the 12 disciples whom the Lord had chosen knelt and prayed to the Father in the name of Jesus for "that which they most desired" (see 3 Nephi 19:9). Elder W. Craig Zwick finds it striking that of all the things they...
Restoration of the gospel, Elder Duncan shares personal testimony
Like the glow of the morning sun coming over Y Mountain east of the Provo Missionary Training Center is the Restoration of the gospel, said Elder Kevin R. Duncan of the Seventy in his Jan. 11 address at the Seminar for New Missionary Training Center Presidents and Visitors' Center Directors.
Elder Zwick counsels leaders 'to let the Spirit guide them'
When the resurrected Lord Jesus Christ visited the Nephites and instructed them, the 12 disciples whom the Lord had chosen knelt and prayed to the Father in the name of Jesus for "that which they most desired" (see 3 Nephi 19:9). Elder W. Craig Zwick finds it striking that of all the things...
Fundamental principle: Know for certainty the character of God
At the heart of LDS missionaries' message is the doctrine concerning the Godhead, Elder Jeffrey R. Holland told 21 couples gathered for a three-day seminar in Provo and Salt Lake City Jan. 10-12.Speaking at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building Jan. 12, Elder Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve gave...
Growth in the Church: Retaining the spiritual change of heart
Teaching others the doctrine of Christ, inviting them to come unto Him and helping them endure to the end are components of what many of the Brethren are now calling "real growth" in the Church, Elder David F. Evans of the Seventy said in his presentation Jan. 10 at the Seminar for New Missionary...
New MTC Training and Curriculum
Staring in just a few days in May, all MTC's around the world are changing their training curriculum for all new missionaries. In the past, new missionaries were learning the doctrines of PMG chapter 3, relating to the lesson content of their teaching. No longer will that happen. ...
