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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

LDS church, church growth, Brazil, Mormon studies

College

Religious Education

Department

Church History and Doctrine

Abstract

Ribeirão Preto is a large city in the interior of São Paulo and is well established and a place where the LDS Church has been well established. We spent more than a week in Ribeirão Preto as we studied and interviewed and researched the history of the Church in that city. We interviewed more than 40 prominent members of the Church, all of whom had been members since the earliest years of the growth of the Church in that area. We also worked in 13 other cities and performed more than 130 interviews in Brazil. It was a phenomenal experience to sit down and begin to talk about these people’s lives in the Church, the acquisition of their testimonies, and their hopes for the future of the Church in their humble wards and stakes. The interviews all lasted between 1.5 and 4 hours in length. They were almost always emotional and tremendous testimony building conversations.

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