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Though this isn’t exactly related to Mormon Mission Prep, I thought this would nevertheless be a good forum to publish a summary and highlights of official LDS Church Website traffic. As some of you may know, I work for the LDS Church and I am in charge of Web analytics for the Church. I am privy to all the official LDS sites’ Web traffic stats, and therefore people often ask me, both in my professional and personal life, for facts and figures about Church’s Web presence. For some, it’s a matter of curiosity, for others, they want to use the information in firesides, or fifth Sunday lessons, etc. Please find it below in the body of this post, or in the downloadable PDF form, and do let me know if you have any questions.

Highlight: One Faithful LDS Family in Sweden

Håkan Palm feels blessed to live a mere four miles from the first temple in Scandinavia and the only temple in Sweden. He served on the committee to find the wooded site about 15 miles south of Stockholm in 1981, was there for the groundbreaking and, as LDS public affairs director for the country and a member of the temple committee, organized the open house where an expected 2,000 visitors turned into nearly 50,000 before the Stockholm Sweden Temple was dedicated in 1985. Ten years later, he arranged for Sweden’s king and queen to visit the temple grounds and meet President Thomas S. Monson. Despite the impressive resume, it’s the value of the temple covenants to his posterity that matters most to him.

Paris France Temple Update: Cleared for Construction

The Paris France Temple is rising as a prophecy in fulfillment.

From the Church

President Ballard Rededicates Houston Temple After the Flooding: "It's Nothing Short of a Miracle”

“When you walk into this temple, you see the beauty of what can happen if you work hard and stay the course," Elder S. Gifford Nielsen said.

The Genesis of a church’s stand on race

On Dec. 25, 1964, as Mitt Romney enjoyed his last Christmas break as a high school student in Michigan, two Mormon missionaries visited Darius Gray in Colorado Springs and asked him if he had any last questions before joining the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He had one. A proud African American, Gray expressed wariness over a description in the Book of Mormon of a dark-skinned tribe being out of favor with God and asked, “How, in any way, does that relate to me?” The younger of the two missionaries stood off to the side as his senior companion explained, “‘Well, Brother Gray, the primary implication is that you won’t be able to hold the priesthood.’”

Latter-day Saint Life

LDS Author Has Unexpected, Touching Response After a Thief Steals a "Christmas Jar"

MR says: While the rest of the world has been railing against a thief who was recently caught stealing a donation jar from a public library, LDS author Jason Wright, who inspired the idea for the jar in the first place, had a surprising and charitable response to this thief.

Latter-day Saint Life

Arizona Family Sets Out to Visit Every LDS Temple in the World in Two Years

By Alexandra Mortenson

The Alcantar family—mom Ange, dad Sal, and four of their five children aged 2 to 10—are three months into a two-year adventure around the world visiting as many LDS temples and historical sites as they can.

Living Prophets Lesson 16: Thomas S. Monson

By Rebecca K. Irvine

Developing Talents

Enjoy art from the BYU MOA like never before with virtual curator tours, a new app, and more

By Danielle Christensen

Brigham Young University’s Museum of Art (MOA) has closed during COVID-19. But since you can’t visit the museum during this time, the museum is bringing the artwork to you.

Latter-day Saint Life

Surprise! 3 Apostles unexpectedly join missionaries’ tour of historic Church sites in England

By Haley Lundberg

Just one day before they would complete their MTC training in Preston, England, a group of elders and sisters were visiting local Church history sites when they had three surprising visitors.