Today in Mormon History - Dec 31

Church Membership at end of year: 680

New Converts : 400

Percent Change from previous year: 142.86% (1)
-- 180 years ago today - 1831

[Hinckley] Spoke to the youth in a New Years Eve meeting in the Conference Center (2)
-- 5 years ago today - Dec 31, 2006

Administration of Second Anointings to December 31, 1941

Temple Living Dead Total

Nauvoo and other sites (1843-46) 591 0 5911

Endowment House (ded. 1866) 694 0 694

St. George (ded. 1877) 1,814 1,615 3,429

Logan (ded. 1884) 3,040 1,243 4,283

Manti (ded. 1888) 2,412 1,134 3,546

Salt Lake City (ded. 1893) 6,368 2,211 8,579

Laie (ded. 1920) 0 0 0

Alberta (ded. 1923) 13 14

Mesa (ded. 1927) 0 0 0 2

TOTAL 14,932 6,204 21,1262

[from "Temple Ordinance Statistics," Books A, B, C ] (3)
-- 70 years ago today - Dec 31, 1941


1 - Wikipedia, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Membership History, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints_membership_history
2 - LDS Newsroom, Time line of Significant Events as President, http://newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/news-releases-stories/time-line-of-significant-events-as-president
3 - Anderson, Devery; The Development of LDS Temple Worship, 1846-2000: A Documentary History, http://amzn.to/TempleWorship

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