Fun stat after two sessions...

[lostinmiddlemormonism]

...with two in the books we have:

Jesus quoted 5 times
General authorities quoted 13 times
Russ quoted 7 times

[MoPag]

wow

[lostinmiddlemormonism]

Comparing the statistical reports, the church added exactly 30 church units last year...30.

When combined with the increase in membership that means the church needs to add 6500 people per new unit...

[AllieOop]

Here is a breakdown of the stats I saw on another board:

The 2018 statistical report is available here: https://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/ ... cal-report

A few comments in looking at these numbers and the overall trends...

Increase in the number of stakes -- there has historically been a lot of variability here but our ten year average was a 1.34% increase per year. 2018 rate is down a bit from that at 0.92% growth.

Number of members per stake/district is up by about 200 from a decade ago but flat over the past few years.

Very little increase in the number of wards/branches... up just 0.10% from last year (ten year average was 0.9%).

Number of members per ward/branch is at a high for as far back as I can get numbers (1974) = 534 members per ward/branch.

New members for 2018 is at a 40 year low as we went under 200,000. Growth rate also continues its decline. At 1.21% for 2018 that is half of what it was a decade ago.

New children of record also continues its downward trend in both raw numbers and as a percentage of overall membership.

However, the number of new converts was up by just over 600 new converts for 2018. As a percentage of membership, converts have been flat over the past few years which is why the decrease in new children of record tends to drive the declining growth rate in the church.

Number of full time missionaries continues to its post-surge decline (as we've all seen) but church service missionaries have been on the rise for as long as they have been reporting that number (since 2010 by my records). We're almost at 38,000.

[Mankhoj]

I love seeing the guys on Reddit trying to make the math work. I commented that you can't when the numbers are fudged.

[Random]

Good point, Mankhoj. Without all the facts, it's hard to make it work.

[2bizE]

I’m surprised that Jesus was quoted so many times.

[alas]

I’m surprised that Jesus was quoted so many times.

He he he, yeah, so was I. The church must be making an effort to focus on Jesus more.

[Give-me-strength]

...with two in the books we have:

Jesus quoted 5 times
General authorities quoted 13 times
Russ quoted 7 times

And yet my brother says he has heard them talk about Jesus about a “billion times”

[lostinmiddlemormonism]

Talking about him? Maybe. Quoting him? Not so much. There they like to quote each other much more.