Some things we learned about the Provo MTC this week.
Provo MTC is one of 17 such training centers worldwide....Provo being the largest.
There are also training centers in Brazil, Japan, Mexico, and United Kingon to name a few.
Up to 3,800 missionaries can be trained there at any given time.
20,000 will be trained this year.
4,000 letters and 500 packages are delivered in the mail center EACH day.
There are 3 cafeterias that serve 8,000-10,000 meals EACH day
2.6 million meals each year.....2.5 tons of breakfast cereal.....40 tons of potatoes
They feed approx. 3,000 missionaries in a 2 hour window.....each missionary is given 40 minutes to eat.
There are 330 missions worldwide serving in 165 countries.
50 languages are taught including English and ASL (American Sign Language)
4,000,000 copies of the Book of Mormon are placed each year
125 million Books of Mormon have been printed since it was first published in 1830
There are 52,000 members serving full time missions at this time.
MY son....Elder Egan is part of this wonderful effort to spread the gospel throughout the world....he is doing as the followers of Christ did when He was on the earth. He has left ALL worldly things behind and has cast in his net. He is a modern day Fisher of Men:)
4 comments:
WOW--Thanks. I learned A LOT!
Cool trivia! Thanks for sharing!
I like that....I have a nephew who has gone fishing! :)
I will pray he has a big catch!!
Remember before Aaron died he used to always tell me that on his tombstone he wanted "Gone Fishing." Then, right before he died he told me that, no....he didn't really want that on there...that it would not be appropriate. That is when he told me he wanted a picture of the angel Moroni blowing his trumpet on his tombstone....so that's what he has. Now, after you made that blog post, I can see that if we had put "Gone Fishing" on the tombstone, it wouldn't have been all that inappropriate after all. :)
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