Conversion

September 02, 2025 02:24 PM MDT
Sean Sheffey felt a God-shaped hole in his life. Then missionaries approached him in a skatepark.
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August 18, 2025 02:50 PM MDT
The restored gospel answered Jozsef’s deepest questions. But embracing it would change nearly everything about his life.
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August 12, 2025 01:37 PM MDT
From a Marxist to Mongolia’s first stake president, Ochirjav Odgerel’s story is a remarkable one.
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August 06, 2025 09:45 AM MDT
After a lunch meeting with his colleagues, Ryan had an unexpected spiritual experience.
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July 16, 2025 10:53 AM MDT
When her baby was hospitalized, Sethrina of Accra, Ghana, turned to the Book of Mormon.
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July 11, 2025 02:00 PM MDT
“I remember standing in my living room and telling God, ‘I need help. I just can’t do this anymore.’”
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In 2024, 308,000 people joined the Church—the highest number of converts in a quarter century.
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July 03, 2025 02:47 PM MDT
Three of these leaders joined the Church after an invitation to play ping-pong.
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June 26, 2025 02:40 PM MDT
The baptisms took place in a pristine jungle river.
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May 23, 2025 01:37 PM MDT
At age 21, Allison was disowned by her father. Then, only two years later, she was stranded by her first husband in an unfamiliar country. 
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May 19, 2025 01:54 PM MDT
Weekly attendance at a nearby meetinghouse has more than doubled.
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May 12, 2025 01:39 PM MDT
“When I received my endowment, I felt warm and tingling and kept whispering, ‘Thank you, Jesus! Thank you, Jesus!’”
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April 01, 2025 09:48 AM MDT
“I remember when she walked in the door,” Travis says. “She was the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen in my life.”
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March 10, 2025 12:14 PM MDT
To Rachel’s horror, she’d joined the ranks of women who suffer from a condition that’s been described as the leprosy of the twenty-first century.
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January 24, 2025 02:40 PM MST
This counsel ignited Sierra’s conversion to Christ, ultimately preparing her to be among the 1st female military chaplains endorsed by the Church.
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January 16, 2025 02:12 PM MST
“I never went back to striving for being number one in the world, like I wanted to. I just got a totally different perspective.”
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September 04, 2024 07:13 AM MDT
Like Lehi before him, Amos Makulu started to share what brought him so much happiness with others in the refugee camp, building a “family” of interested learners.
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August 21, 2024 01:40 PM MDT
When asked why she wanted to serve a mission, her response was, “Because it’s the right thing to do.”
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August 14, 2024 03:17 PM MDT
God wants us to live with joy, not guilt that we are not doing enough. Find peace by noticing the subtle signs of progress in your life.
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August 08, 2024 03:38 PM MDT
In June 2024, the Montoya family reunited with the families who introduced them to the gospel 50 years ago.
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July 30, 2024 04:36 PM MDT
As a teen, Phong risked his life to escape communism. He then was led to the only One who could heal the painful memories of his childhood.
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July 09, 2024 07:20 AM MDT
After his own baptism in 2005, Bishop Miliate set a goal to help 3 people join the Church each year. So far this year, he’s helped 13.
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May 16, 2024 12:41 PM MDT
After years of exploring other faiths, YouTuber David Boice concluded that there was something undeniably different about Latter-day Saints.
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May 09, 2024 10:20 AM MDT
A family once trapped by darkness was lovingly shown a way to invite light.
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May 08, 2024 10:57 AM MDT
My grandparents were initially nervous about my decision, but how they kept nourishing our relationship inspires me.
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April 26, 2024 10:57 AM MDT
Derek Ryan is frequently asked about his faith in the locker room. He knows of no other Latter-day Saints in the NHL as long as he has played.
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January 23, 2024 08:30 AM MST
A series of remarkable promptings and experiences led a world-class cellist back to the faith she’d decidedly left more than 20 years earlier.
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December 18, 2023 09:56 AM MST
2023 was an incredible year for the All In podcast. See the highlights here.
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December 07, 2023 07:00 AM MST
Ariana and Briana Mendez share a lot of things as twins, but they never anticipated finding and sharing a belief in the restored gospel.
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November 09, 2023 03:32 PM MST
Abish started out with God and eventually found the Church. I started out with the Church and have spent my life searching for God.
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October 09, 2023 02:45 PM MDT
Carol shares how her path to baptism started with seeing the Osmonds on TV, but nearly ended when she learned of the priesthood and temple restriction.
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July 26, 2023 09:27 AM MDT
Being a mother in a mixed-faith marriage has given Ashli unique insight into agency, eternity, and God’s never-ending love.
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July 20, 2023 05:37 PM MDT
I was hoping for an international church experience in Japan—but I got a very different outcome instead.
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June 13, 2023 11:04 AM MDT
No one is ever too old to step into the waters of baptism. Whether you’re 8 or 108, a covenant relationship with God is something to celebrate. Here are 19 products to help a friend or family member cherish their baptism and remember the promises they made.
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June 09, 2023 05:00 AM MDT
In 1967, Isaac Thomas walked onto the Missouri Valley College campus on fraternity pledge night. As one of only 32 black students at the school, he stood out starkly, but, being an outgoing young man fresh from an all-black high school, Thomas didn’t think anything of it. He had never come face to face with the violence and hatred racism breeds—until that night.
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June 01, 2023 12:12 PM MDT
Eduardo Maradiaga didn’t know it then, but the photo he took of the Saratoga Springs Utah Temple was about to go on a journey that would give him and his family hope as they started new lives in the US.
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May 04, 2023 12:26 PM MDT
In his early thirties, Jon made two important discoveries that helped him to no longer feel alone: he was Autistic, and he belonged in the gospel of Jesus Christ
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December 13, 2022 08:00 AM MST
Editor’s note: The following excerpt has been adapted from Voice of the Saints in Mongolia, the first comprehensive history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in that nation.
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November 27, 2022 12:34 PM MST
A recent convert in Spain. A Farsi-speaking sister missionary in California. An accidental but special phone call to bring them together.
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November 21, 2022 08:00 AM MST
After Batchimeg told Soyolmaa that they could serve a mission, they decided to put in their mission papers together around March or April 1995.
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November 02, 2022 12:34 PM MDT
Elder Carlos A. Godoy’s story comes to life with clever and nostalgic animations reminiscent of the aesthetic and pop culture of the 1970s.
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September 30, 2022 03:09 PM MDT
When Chris Schoebinger was a senior in high school, he moved out of his home and into the home of, unbeknownst to him, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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September 28, 2022 02:36 PM MDT
When an unfamiliar woman came to Steven Collis’s book signing, he had no idea she would reveal an ending to the story more miraculous than he imagined.
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August 10, 2022 03:39 PM MDT
A distraught teenager sought to leave his troubles behind and find relief in the US. He would not only find peace in the gospel but also help introduce it to South Dakota.
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August 09, 2022 04:00 PM MDT
Conversion is a process we continue to experience each and every day as we center our lives on the gospel of Jesus Christ and make His teachings a part of who we are.
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November 16, 2020 08:07 PM MST
When Renu Singh’s mother became ill, Singh started a search for the truth—a search that eventually led her to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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September 30, 2020 12:00 PM MDT
On September 27, 2015, I joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints while attending Michigan State University. Before that, I wasn’t religious and struggled with many doubts—including whether God was even real. Now, five years later, I can easily see how Heavenly Father has been so good to me throughout my life, even when I wasn’t sure He was there.
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August 21, 2020 05:07 PM MDT
Emily Jane Zeigler knew she wanted to join the Church at age 14, but it took four long and trying years before she entered the waters of baptism.
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July 06, 2020 06:56 PM MDT
Speaking to mission presidents and companions and the 2020 Mission Leadership Seminar, Elder D. Todd Christofferson pointed to a “simple and profound” statement in Preach My Gospel: “The power of the Holy Ghost is central to conversion.”
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June 30, 2020 07:25 PM MDT
At the 2020 Mission Leadership Seminar, President Bonnie H. Cordon, Young Women General President, spoke about the importance and the process of creating lifelong conversion.
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December 05, 2019 10:00 PM MST
This week's FHE lesson topic comes from the Come, Follow Me reading of Revelations 1-11. Check out this week's Come, Follow Me study ideas on LDS Living for additional resources and suggestions.
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