Stateside Mission Calls

[Slim]

The logjam of missionaries with visa problems would be an incredible logistical nightmare. As it is, our ward has had an elder for 3 months that has been waiting for his visa to Samoa. He even had to do his language training with his senior companion because there was no room in the inn for him at the MTC.

Worth it. As long as I don't have to coordinate it.

[tooblue]

The logjam of missionaries with visa problems would be an incredible logistical nightmare. As it is, our ward has had an elder for 3 months that has been waiting for his visa to Samoa. He even had to do his language training with his senior companion because there was no room in the inn for him at the MTC.

The church is beginning to transcended Utah and the Salt Lake influence. I think you are going to see more and more American missionaries serving in U.S. missions because of the "logistical nightmare" as Indy calls it. This scenario is already occurring in Europe. There is an MTC in Madrid, Spain in addition to the one in England. Beyond the new MTC being built in Mexico, I imagine there are other MTC's being planned for other countries (pure speculation on my part).

Just looked it up. There are MTC's in:

Argentina
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Dominican Republic
England
Ghana
Guatemala
Mexico
New Zealand
Peru
Philippines
South Africa
Spain
United States

http://www.lds.org/locations/mission...nters?lang=eng

[Jeff Lebowski]

We know a girl that put in her papers recently and was called to serve in the Ogden mission. She was devastated and claimed she was going to turn it down. I think her parents have her calmed down a bit now.

[Indy Coug]

We know a girl that put in her papers recently and was called to serve in the Ogden mission. She was devastated and claimed she was going to turn it down. I think her parents have her calmed down a bit now.

[BigPiney]

We know a girl that put in her papers recently and was called to serve in the Ogden mission. She was devastated and claimed she was going to turn it down. I think her parents have her calmed down a bit now.

From Provo?

[Paperback Writer]

We know a girl that put in her papers recently and was called to serve in the Ogden mission. She was devastated and claimed she was going to turn it down. I think her parents have her calmed down a bit now.

My original mission call was to SLC North. I too was devasted. However, my call got changed to the east coast because of all the relatives I had in the mission boundaries. I grew up in the midwest but my folks familes were from SLC and Davis county - we were the only family on either side of large Momon familes to grow up outside "Zion".

Although I had a positive mission experience, I think SLC North would have been great. I probably went from the easiest stateside mission to the most difficult.

[Jeff Lebowski]

From Provo?

Yes.

[Jeff Lebowski]

My original mission call was to SLC North. I too was devasted. However, my call got changed to the east coast because of all the relatives I had in the mission boundaries. I grew up in the midwest but my folks familes were from SLC and Davis county - we were the only family on either side of large Momon familes to grow up outside "Zion".

Although I had a positive mission experience, I think SLC North would have been great. I probably went from the easiest stateside mission to the most difficult.

If you like teaching non-stop and baptizing people almost every week of your mission and never having to cook a meal, Utah missions are great.

[statman]

We know a girl that put in her papers recently and was called to serve in the Ogden mission. She was devastated and claimed she was going to turn it down. I think her parents have her calmed down a bit now.

A Utah mission would be an awesome mission. They baptize a lot compared to most stateside missions. No tracting. Eat at member's houses daily. All referrals. All have Mormon friends.

As for weird calls - one of my son's best friends got his call to go to Mexico in late September - to report to the MTC in MARCH. A similar thing happend with my son's greeny trainer (from Mexico) - time from call to reporting to the MTC was ~6 months. He called up the MTC and said it was too long a wait and that he needed to start sooner. They checked with his mission and said - "Okay, can you be up here next week?" and he started right away.

Sometimes ballsiness is rewarded. Even in The Church...

[The_Tick]

Of the 20 or more young men I personally know who are currently serving only one is stateside. It took him several months to get a visa and he started his mission in Canada. It's getting harder and harder to get those visas. They can't even get the kids to the MTC. They have sent several straight to their mission bypassing Provo all together.

Kid from Edmonton that served in our ward 3 years ago...his sister open her mission call tonight...California Ventura Mission.

2 kids from the same house, called to the same mission.

I wonder how often it happens.

[mtnbiker]

Kid from Edmonton that served in our ward 3 years ago...his sister open her mission call tonight...California Ventura Mission.

2 kids from the same house, called to the same mission.

I wonder how often it happens.

You wouldn't think it would be all that common, but we happen to have a young man in our ward who just left for the same mission his older brother served in: Tahiti Papeete. I told him to go clean up his brother's mess.