PROVO, Utah-For the first time in the past 15 months, Wednesday, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ Provo-based Missionary Training Center resumed in-person training of missionaries.

248 missionaries arrived in Provo to commence their missions with similar numbers of missionaries expected to arrive each Wednesday thereafter.

Missionaries are to spend approximately two weeks training in-person before traveling to their area of assignment.

The Provo MTC is to operate at a reduced capacity for the foreseeable future as a precaution.

Tests for covid will be administered to any missionary exhibiting symptoms during their MTC training.

Furthermore, at this present moment, only missionaries who are fully vaccinated are eligible to train in person at Provo as a precaution.

In the future, the Salt Lake City-based faith confirmed MTC’s outside of the United States will gradually commence in welcoming missionaries on-site.

For a time, missionaries from the United States will not train in-person at these facilities.

This week, the MTC at Tema, Ghana will begin accepting missionaries in-person. Next week, the New Zealand MTC at Auckland will do the same.

Missionaries are not receiving in-person language training at this time.