LDS missionary numbers declining?

http://www.sltrib.com/blogs/3450134-155/from-surge-to-slump-no-but

Some critics are chortling in triumph, but I’m not sure how significant it really is.

After all, it was entirely predictable:  There would be a period when the missionaries called under the old age guidelines (nineteen years old for men, twenty-one for women) would still be in the field while those called under the new guidelines (eighteen for me, nineteen for women) were beginning to flood in.  Something of a “doubling up.”

But this would inescapably end.

It scarcely means that the Church is coming to an end.