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Date: May 20, 2014 10:50PM
I'll do my own calculations. Per the SLC Tribune
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/57862203-78/missionaries-church-converts-lds.html.csp there were 282,945 "convert baptisms" in 2013 and a missionary force which "swelled" to "more than 83,000." Do they include senior missionaries and service missionaries in those numbers? I could be wrong but I don't THINK they do. So 282,945 baptisms/83,000 mishies x 2 mishies per companionship = 7 baptisms per missionary companionship per year. That's only about one baptism every 60 days.
That doesn't sound like THAT many, especially when you consider the number of man hours put into missionary work. And you have to remember, Mormon missionaries are bottom feeders. They are under pressure to produce numbers and they inevitably target easy pickin's like the vulnerable. You got about 200,000,000 man-hours of high pressure salesmen each year trying to convince ANYONE that will be willing to hear the discussions and get dunked. It should come as no surprise that the church can baptize thousands of the following:
1) homeless people
2) lonely people
3) unbaptized 9 year olds
4) uneducated/poor people
5) part member families
6) boyfriends/girlfriends of members
7) gullible people
8) vulnerable people (family member died, new to a city, lost a job, struggling with drugs, etc.)
9) mentally unstable people
10) immigrants
And just because they dunk the above mentioned, doesn't mean these people are converts in the true sense of the word nor that they will remain an active member of the church.