SO LET'S TALK ABOUT MISSIONS THO
LIKE FURREALS WHY HAVE I NOT EVER BLOGGED ABOUT THIS BEFORE OH RIGHT BECAUSE IT HASN'T BEEN SUPER DUPER RELEVANT UNTIL RIGHT NOW Okay so let me describe to you the exotic far away place called Brigham Young University. Everyone's white. Everyone's Mormon. Everyone wants the NCMO. #shewantsthencmo #butreallytho This is so appropriate for a blog post about missions..... #whatiswrongwithme My goodness. Anyways, so missions. After the groundbreaking age change announcement made in 2012 by the prophet Thomas S. Monson, missionary work has literally EXPLODED. LDS mission applications jumped 471% in the months following the announcement. Elders and sisters alike were serving in such great numbers that new Missionary Training Centers had to be built to accommodate. BYU student housing was turned into missionary housing in Provo, Utah to accommodate those missionaries training there. There are now over 80,000 missionaries serving in more than 400 missions all over the wor