SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — A new wave of 18-year-old sister missionaries will begin serving in July, helping push missionary numbers of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to a record high.
The new group will join more than 87,000 missionaries currently serving worldwide, according to the Church.
“In coming weeks, we will have the largest number of full-time missionaries in the Church’s history,” LDS Church President Dallin H. Oaks told new mission leaders on Saturday, June 20…