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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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• Accra Ghana Temple
  ...after he had challenged members to make a special effort to fellowship new converts to the Church. [http://www.ldschurchtemples.com/accra/ He told the members] ...eople present at the announcement of the temple had been some of the first converts in Ghana, and most expressed their amazement at how far the Church had come
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• Erastus Snow
  ...later served a mission to Salem, Massachusetts, where he baptized several converts including Nathaniel Ashby, a man with whom he shared a duplex when they bot ...get many church members who had stayed in the east as well as many recent converts to move to Utah.
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• Willie and Martin Handcart Companies
  ...ience of some of those in the Martin handcart company. Many of these early converts had emigrated from Europe and were too poor to buy oxen or horses and a wag ...Church and its leaders was being indulged in for permitting any company of converts to venture across the plains with no more supplies or protection than a han
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• Sixth Crossing
  ...g, the [[Willie and Martin Handcart Companies|Willie handcart company]] of converts to [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Sain ...ah Territory in 1847, and the leadership of the Church encouraged the many converts from the British Island and Europe to immigrate to Utah. Many paid their ow
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• "Mormon" Polygamy
  ...an male. Likewise, in the early days of the Church, there were more female converts than male. [http://mormon-polygamy.org/ Polygamy] enabled these women to ha ...These groups often withdraw into isolated communities and seldom gain new converts. This leads to intermarrying of close relatives and has caused heightened b
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• Mbuji-Mayi Democratic Republic of the Congo Temple
  :In the 1960s, several Congolese converts who had been baptized outside the country returned to their homeland and be :Although legal registration took nearly seven years, early converts met together in small groups and shared their faith with neighbors. When th
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• Singapore Republic of Singapore Temple
  ...icant responsibilities of leadership and missionary work. By 1977 most new converts had been introduced to the gospel by other members."[https://newsroom.churc
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• Preston England Temple
  ...to the gospel. The success of these early missionaries brought a flood of converts from the British Isles. Many of those converts immigrated to the United States, taking with them their strengths and talen
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• Curitiba Brazil Temple
  ...he Restored Gospel to people in Santa Catarina who spoke German. The first converts joined the Church in Brazil in 1929. The first Latter-day Saint meetinghous
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• Every Member a Missionary
  ...e requirements of a new life. He said, "With the ever-increasing number of converts, we must make an increasingly substantial effort to assist them as they fin
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• Preach My Gospel
  ...that every member of the Church is a missionary, and some of our choicest converts are found within the walls of our own home,” said Sister Amy A. Wright, f ...ators for conversion (“Lessons with a Member Participating” and “New Converts Attending Sacrament Meeting”). These new indicators are intended to help
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• Mormon Pond
  ...fjesuschrist.org/facts-and-statistics/country/iceland] Resulting Icelander converts to the Church were baptized in the Mormon Pond and from 1854 to 1914, they ...cials gathered at Mormon Pond on June 30, 2000, and honored 410 Icelanders converts with a dedication of a monument.
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• Pioneers
  ...urch feel a tremendous debt of gratitude to these people. In a sense, even converts to the Church whose ancestors weren't pioneers feel that these pioneers are ...ntier” (''MD'', p. 513). And so they did. From all over the world Mormon converts gathered to go to the land of Zion.
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• Kananga Democratic Republic of the Congo Temple
  :In the 1960s, several Congolese converts who had been baptized outside the country returned to their homeland and be :Although legal registration took nearly seven years, early converts met together in small groups and shared their faith with neighbors. When th
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• Mountain Meadows massacre
  ...in the Eastern United States and Europe brought a steady influx of Mormon converts to the Mormon communities; the population continued to grow, and settlement
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• Mormon Population
  ...largest church in the United States. Worldwide, there are nearly 300,000 converts a year plus growth through members having families.
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• Baptismal font
  In areas where there is no baptismal font available, Mormons believe that converts can be baptized in any body of water that is large enough for them to be fu
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• Mormon Web Site
  *[http://www.mormonconverts.com/ Mormon Converts – Conversion stories from people who joined the Church]
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• LDS Church Growth: A Large New Chapel in Queensland
  Emigration of Mormon converts declined in the 1950s, which helped the church’s growth in Australia. The
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• LDS Church Growth: 2012 Statistical Report
  *Converts baptized =272,330
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• LDS Church Growth: 100th Stake Established in Peru
  The first Mormon missionaries arrived in August 1956. The number of Mormon converts grew as missionaries shared the Gospel of Jesus Christ and by 1959, five co
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• Fullness of the Gospel
  ...Jesus Christ is built, it follows that these are the first steps taken by converts to the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. After faith and repentance, a perso
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• God's Will
  ...icularly significant to members of the Church of Jesus Christ. Millions of converts have joined the Church because they were honest and sincere in their effort
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• Mormon Baptism
  The symbolism involved in the baptism invites new converts and others observing the ordinance to reflect on its meanings. More specifi
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• Mormon cult
  ...d so as ''not'' to encroach on family time. Sometimes, when a person first converts to the Church, family members and friends revile and abandon him or her. Th
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• Service
  ...themselves. The prophet [[Alma]] explained this covenant to a group of new converts who wanted to be baptized. He observed that their desire to "come into the
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• Certain Women
  ...d the same. Drusilla Hendricks and her family were among those who, as new converts, suffered during the persecution of the Saints in Clay County, Missouri. He
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• Born Again
  ..."born of water," because the Jews practiced ritual immersion, not only for converts, but for cleansing after periods of uncleanness, and for holiday preparatio
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• Apostasy, Reformation, and Restoration
  ...e various sects of Christianity held revivals and tent meetings, vying for converts. [http://www.prophetjosephsmith.org Joseph Smith] was then fourteen years
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• Mormonism and the Christian Creeds
  .... Persons of this persuasion, including learned men who became influential converts to Christianity, had a hard time accepting the simple teachings of early Ch
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