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Show Kenn Turley, Colonia Juarez, Mexico, sounds out Spanish words for six new missionaries at Language Training Mission. Language Program Expanded Classes Planned For 2 Months At 3 Centers of the expansion language training An mission program and time served all missions standardizain of the Church is scheduled to go into effect on tion of Feb. 8, according to Elder Spencer W. Kimball of the Council of the Twelve. Elder Kimball also is chairman of the Church Missionary Committee. Languages will be taught for a period at Brigham Young University, Provo ; Ricks College at Rexburg, Idaho and the Chuich College of Hawaii at Laie. two-mon- th A including missionaries, lady missionaries, will serve for two years, regardless of the mission. The only exception will be older individuals who might be missions. called for short-ter- Kenneth J. Cton . . . CCH training Ernest J. Wilkins BYU director . . . 1 1 The time spent in the language training missions will be included in the period. Elder Kimball said. Languages to be taught at BYU will be French, German, Navajo, Portuguese, Spanish and Italian. Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish will be taught at Ricks, and missionaries who will serve In the Pacific or Orient will be taught Cantonese and Mandarin dialects In Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Samoan, Tongan, and Tahitian at Church College of Hawaii. Ermel J. Motion will be In charge of the Ricks mission; Kenneth J. Orton at CCH, and Ernest J. Wilkins will continue to head the BYU f.icility. In the past, missionaries have served 30 months in a mission foreign-languag- where the language was learned the In field. With the setting up of the language training mission in December of 19C1 to teach Spanish, those missionaries going to areas where the language taught at BYU served 24 months after leaving the language mission. In English-speakinareas, the mission term has been 24 months. s g For lady missionaries the term WEEK of service has boon 18 months. Now all missionaries, as noted previously, will serve 21 months. Those in the field now will return home under a graduated program of releases. will Mission interview presidents missionaries presently serving to see what their desires for service are. Missionaries are required to register their Selective Service boards within five days of release. with ENDING JANUARY 18, 1969 CHURCH- -3 |