{"id":1370,"date":"2008-07-14T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T19:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/?p=1370"},"modified":"2015-09-20T20:59:13","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T03:59:13","slug":"baptism-numbers-in-utah-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2008\/07\/14\/baptism-numbers-in-utah-missions\/","title":{"rendered":"Baptism numbers in Utah missions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nine-moons.com\/2008\/07\/14\/mission-cred-syndrome\/\">A post over at Nine Moons<\/a> got me thinking about my mission. No, CJ, not like that.<\/p>\n<p>One of the bragging points i heard among missionaries in my mission (Utah Provo Mission) was that we were the highest baptizing, English-speaking mission in the world. Sounds impressive, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take a look at this a bit further.<\/p>\n<p>When I served in the Utah Provo Mission, the mission had about 200 stakes. We also had about 200 baptisms every month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;200 Baptisms?!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yep, but look at those numbers. That&#8217;s just 1 baptism per stake per month. That&#8217;s pathetic. When I was in the stake mission presidency in the Lethbridge Alberta West Stake, we saw at least 2 baptisms per month in the stake.<\/p>\n<p>I guess the point I am trying to make is that there&#8217;s more to numbers than quantity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A post over at Nine Moons got me thinking about my mission. No, CJ, not like that. 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