58 NEW MISSIONS!

Current Sydney Sister Missionaries!

The LDS Church created 58 new missions in response to the surge in missionary applications. One of the new missions affects me. My call is to the "Australia Sydney Mission" of which a new mission "Sydney North" has been formed. I'll just have to wait and see where I will report.

According to the Deseret News, the "immediate and unprecedented" response to LDS Church PresidentThomas S. Monson's October announcement lowering the age of full-time missionary service to 18 for young men who are high school graduates and 19 for young women has pushed the total number of LDS missionaries currently serving around the world to more than 60,000 for the first time in more than a decade.

The number of young men and women applying to serve missions jumped nearly 500 percent after the change.

"We are thrilled with the response," Elder Russell M. Nelson of the church's Quorum of the Twelve told Church News reporter R. Scott Lloyd. "Our first feeling is one of deep gratitude for the commitment and the consecration of these missionary families."

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865573903/LDS-Church-creates-58-new-missions-in-response-to-surge-in-missionary-applications.html