LDS Church announces 58 new missions

LDS Church announces 58 new missions

By Stephanie Grimes

February 22nd, 2013 @ 12:44pm

SALT LAKE CITY ? The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Friday the creation of 58 new missions, including one in Utah.

The announcement came after the LDS church saw a drastic increase in members interested in serving missions following LDS Church President Thomas S. Monson's October announcement that the church would lower the age of mission eligibility to 18 for men and 19 for women.

Men were previously required to be at least 19 years old for missionary service; women were required to be at least 21.

The response to the announcement led to the church's missionary force exceeding 60,000 for the first time in many years.

The 58 new missions include one in Utah ? the Salt Lake City East mission ? and two in Idaho, in Nampa and Twin Falls.

Three new missions were added in Central America, and eight were added in Mexico. South America, too, saw a significant increase, with seven missions being added to Brazil alone. The additional missions raise the number of missions from 347 to 405.

All of the new missions are being created through boundary adjustments within existing missions.

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New LDS Missions
Africa Southeast Area	Mexico Area	North America West Area
Angola Luanda	Mexico Cancun	California Bakersfield
Botswana Gaborone	Mexico Ciudad Juarez	California Irvine
Africa West Area	Mexico Ciudad Obregon	California Rancho Cucamonga
Ghana Accra West	Mexico Mexico City Chalco	Pacific Area
Liberia Monrovia	Mexico Pachuca	Australia Sydney North
Nigeria Benin City	Mexico Queretaro	New Zealand Hamilton
Asia North Area	Mexico Reynosa	Papua New Guinea Lae
Japan Tokyo South	Mexico Saltillo	Philippines Area
Korea Seoul South	North America Central Area	Philippines Cavite
Brazil	Colorado Fort Collins	Philippines Cebu East
Brazil Curitiba South	Illinois Chicago West	Philippines Legaspi
Brazil Fortaleza East	Kansas Wichita	Philippines Urdaneta
Brazil Juiz de Fora	North America Northeast Area	South America Northwest Area
Brazil Natal	Virginia Chesapeake	Bolivia Santa Cruz North
Brazil Piracicaba	Ohio Cincinnati	Ecuador Guayaquil West
Brazil Santos	North America Northwest Area	Ecuador Quito North
Brazil Sao Paulo West	Oregon Salem	Peru Huancayo
Central America Area	Washington Federal Way	Peru Iquitos
El Salvador San Salvador East	Washington Vancouver	South America South Area
Guatemala Coban	North America Southeast Area	Argentina Comodoro Rivadavia
Honduras San Pedro Sula West	Georgia Macon	Argentina Posadas
Europe East Area	North America Southwest Area	Chile Santiago South
Ukraine L'viv	Arizona Gilbert	Utah Area
Idaho	Arizona Scottsdale	Utah Salt Lake City East
Idaho Nampa
Idaho Twin Falls

Stephanie Grimes, ksl.com Reporter

Stephanie Grimes is a feature writer and reporter for ksl.com.

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