Join At Your Own Risk

Missionaries boast wrongly that the Church Of Latter Day Saints is the fastest growing church on the planet. They are wrong. They are lying.

A worker inside church headquarters reports:

Official membership increased from 10,752,986 to 11,068,861 during 2000. This consists of 273,973 convert baptisms and 81,450 increase in children of record. The loss of 39,548 is due primarily to deaths, and various adjustments. The First Presidency is aware of the problem of the "name removed file" growing to hundreds of thousands of names, all still included in the 11 million. It appears that they are reluctant to change the policy, and therefore they still count those people as part of the total membership.