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A jubilee year for missionary language instruction

Published: Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012 | Read story
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Elder Russell M. Nelson addresses devotional at Missionary Training Center, where he dedicated new renovations of five buildings and led an observance of 50 years of missionary language instruction. (Photo by R. Scott Lloyd)
Photo by R. Scott Lloyd
Elder Russell M. Nelson addresses devotional at Missionary Training Center, where he dedicated new renovations of five buildings and led an observance of 50 years of missionary language instruction.
Three years after the Church was organized, the Lord decreed that "every man shall hear the fulness of the gospel in his own tongue, and in his own language, through those who are ordained unto this power" (Doctrine and Covenants 90:11).