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Touring the MTC

A few weeks ago our family toured the Missionary Training Center in Provo.  The MTC has been around for a long time but recently they added some new buildings and they opened it to the public for tours.

I really enjoyed the tour.  I especially enjoyed the art and quotes on the wall which I found inspiring.  It made me realize that I'd like to use that more in my home too.

First we toured the old MTC buildings and then we went into the new ones which provide more space for classrooms, sleeping and study areas as well as space for larger meetings.  The new buildings have more natural light and also have the new technology for the classrooms.  Many missionaries get iPads when they go to the MTC because they will be using them in their missions.  Most of the foreign missions do not have them.

This is a picture of Dan Jones preaching in his native land of Wales as a missionary.

Approximately 22,000 missionaries enter the Provo MTC each year.

Along the sidewalks were banners with quotes like, "Behold, the field is white already to harvest..."

The new buildings have increased the capacity of the MTC from 2800 to 3700 missionaries.

Here is a room where the missionaries sleep.

This is a picture of our family in front of a picture of a devotional at the MTC.


I loved the flags:  35 of 139 flags are displayed and rotated daily.  This helps give the MTC an international flavor as they prepare missionaries to go just about everywhere in the world.


In the new building, they have a lot of really large pictures on the wall that show scenes from the life of Christ as it was recently filmed by the Church.



This is a scale model of the whole MTC campus.  The old building are on the right and the new ones are on the left.

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