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• Convert Retention
  ...rk toward entering the [[Mormon temple|temple]]. This push toward keeping converts active is called "'''convert retention'''" and was a major theme of [[Mormo He then outlined what is needed to help new converts stay faithful:
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• Mormons in America - Demographics
  *Half of converts live in the West (53%), but nearly a quarter live in the South (22%), 14% l ...and nearly all black Mormons are converts. An additional one-in-ten Mormon converts are Hispanic, and just 72% are white.
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• Ribble Valley
  ...ar Preston, Lancashire, England, where Heber C. Kimball baptized the first converts in England]] ...re where early Latter-day Saints preached the gospel and baptized numerous converts.
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• The Icelandic Memorial
  Between 1855 and 1914, 410 Icelandic converts to [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Sain ...of the church was organized at Vestmannaeyjar on 19 June 1853. Many of the converts were baptized in the sheltered tidepools on the shore of Vestmannaeyjar, ou
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• Missionary Work 3: American Sign Language, South America, Hungary, England, and India
  :Although LDS missionaries began proselyting in Hungary as early as 1885, few converts joined the church during those early years. A branch of the church was esta ...monmissionaries.org missionaries] of the Church of Jesus Christ. The early converts had been counseled by Church leaders to gather to the United States and sub
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• Perpetual Emigration Fund
  ...companies]], to reduce expenses. Once established in their new homes, the converts were expected to repay the funds in cash, commodities, or labor, with minor
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• Mormon Rites
  ...t church along with the power and authority to act in God's name. Many new converts had grown disillusioned with their own churches and were looking for that o ...der than eight can be baptized, and that is the case with adult or teenage converts. Latter-day Saints are only baptized once, unless a person is excommunicate
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• Matthias F. Cowley
  ...ut he was endowed with the missionary spirit; his natural work was to make converts to the cause of God. While in the surveying field, he carried an old Bible ...rth. The similarity between his teachings and those of the Elders, led his converts, whom he denied baptism, to send for the Elders. The people investigated, w
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• Lucy Mack Smith
  ...enced seven reported visions. Rather than join any of the faiths vying for converts in the region, he felt he wanted to reclaim a faith in the ancient, origina ...faith. She exercised charity both in emotional and material ways, feeding converts who arrived without food, finding housing, and managing other women's child
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• Dan Jones
  ...grated from Great Britain. Jones continued to captain his ship, and hauled converts to the church, hauled freight for building the [[Nauvoo Temple]], and preac ...om late 1844 to February 1849, when they traveled with more than 300 Welsh converts who were immigrating. The first Welsh-speaking branch was organized in Coun
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• Kinshasa Democratic Republic of the Congo Temple
  ...complexity of this vast region of the globe - whether they are leaders and converts living and serving in Africa, or those who journey to Salt Lake City, Utah,
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• Meetings for Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  ...ue for parents with small children, Primary children, elderly members, new converts, and others. ...reater gospel joy—to parents, children, youth, singles, the elderly, new converts, and those people the missionaries are teaching—through a home-centered,
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• Convert
  ...s old convictions, repents of sins, and enters the waters of [[baptism]]. Converts contribute much to their congregations, because of their experience. They Most converts begin their journey to membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter D
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• Stake
  ...ve under the direction of the [[ward mission leader]], often teach the new converts very shortly after their [[baptism]].
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• Book of Moses
  ...he [[Pearl of Great Price]] in 1851 at the request of new Latter-day Saint converts in Britain. The Pearl of Great Price is one of the four works that comprise ...ld come, and Enoch even calls him by his name, Jesus Christ. Enoch and his converts build a city, "And the Lord called his people ZION, because they were of on
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• Heber C. Kimball
  ...[[1837]], the first branch outside of the United States, made up of 28 new converts, was created. The Church in the area grew quickly and by October 1837, it w
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• Franklin Dewey Richards
  ...ar]] more often. Richards organized new branches to accommodate the 16,000 converts won during his ministry. He also organized conferences and meetings. The br ...European mission, which include Scandinavia. The following year over 3400 converts were won in England alone, and most emigrated to Utah. He returned to Utah
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• Out of Mormonism
  ...hing children and converts. However, any cultural transition is difficult. Converts to the Church of Jesus Christ face the same difficulty, since the Church fo
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• Francis M. Lyman
  ...sion. In May, 1862, he began his journey home accompanied by more than 800 converts and emigrants. He finally returned home to his young wife and child nearly ...itzerland and France. He returned in 1875 bringing with him a group of 300 converts.
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• Jorge F. Zeballos
  President [[Gordon B. Hinckley]] taught that new converts to [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Sain ...some four decades since Elder Zeballos was counted among the Church's "new converts." From the beginning, he's been the beneficiary of faithful friends, wise p
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