Sources: Missionary count: Bishop L. Todd Budge, BYU devotional (Church Newsroom, October 22, 2026); Church Newsroom mission leadership announcements (2024–2026), official Church area websites, official MTC pages, Newsroom Facts & Statistics, Wikipedia mission and temple lists, Open-Meteo (weather/climate), OpenStreetMap, Wikimedia Commons (photos, credited).
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