The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will open a new missionary training center — its 10th worldwide — next month in Bangkok, Thailand.
Effective January 2024, the Thailand MTC will be located in the annex adjacent to the new six-story Bangkok Thailand Temple, which was dedicated and began operations in October.
Located to the north side of the six-story house of the Lord and separated by a small courtyard, the annex houses administrative and other Church offices, two chapels, meeting rooms and a FamilySearch center.
The Thailand MTC will help accommodate the training of new full-time missionaries who are from Southeast Asia and other regions.
The new missionary training center was announced Wednesday, Dec. 13, on ChurchofJesusChrist.org.
The Church’s 10 MTCs provide training to new missionaries, most of whom participate in online training at home for the first week of their mission. Missionaries are then assigned to a missionary training center to complete their training, which can run from two weeks to as long as eight weeks if learning a language other than their native tongue.
The Church’s nine currently operating MTCs are:
Provo Missionary Training Center
Location: Provo, Utah
Areas served: Missions worldwide
Training languages: More than 50 different languages
Brazil Missionary Training Center
Location: São Paulo, Brazil
Areas served: Missions in Brazil, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Angola, South America, Central America, Mexico, Japan, Portugal
Training languages: Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese
England Missionary Training Center
Location: Preston, England
Areas served: Missions in Europe
Training languages: English, English as a second language, French, German, Greek
Ghana Missionary Training Center
Location: Accra, Ghana
Areas served: Missions in West Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Madagascar
Training languages: Amharic, English, English as a second language, French, Swahili
Mexico Missionary Training Center
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Areas served: Missions in Mexico; other countries of North, Central and South America; Dominican Republic; Haiti
Training languages: Spanish, Haitian Creole, K’ekchi
New Zealand Missionary Training Center
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Areas served: Missions in Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Tahiti, Tonga
Training languages: English, English as a second language, French (native speakers only), Samoan (native speakers only), Tongan
Peru Missionary Training Center
Location: Lima, Peru
Areas served: Central and South America
Training language: Spanish
Philippines Missionary Training Center
Location: Manila, Philippines
Areas served: Missions in the Philippines and Asia
Training languages: Cambodian, Cebuano, English, English as a second language, Hiligaynon, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Mongolian, Tagalog, Urdu, Vietnamese — all languages except Tagalog and English as a second language are for native speakers only
South Africa Missionary Training Center
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
Areas served: Missions in Southeast Africa, Madagascar
Training languages: English, Portuguese, Malagasy
