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Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Warmest Stories podcast.

I'm your host John Dillin.

It's January 24th, 2020 and we are super excited today to be covering a topic that I know

many of you are interested in or care about.

Recently the Salt Lake Tribune came out with an article entitled Utah Seas, Latter-day

St. Slowdown and Membership Numbers Drop in Salt Lake County.

This was a January 5th article.

The basically talked about how in multiple counties in Utah, Latter-day St or Mormon

membership is actually either slowing its growth or actually in decline.

And then of course there's another article called Top 10 Most Encouraging and Discouraging

Growth and Missionary Development for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in

2019, published by Matthew Martinich of Kamora.com.

For those of you who have been following warmestories for years, the names Rick Phillips and Ryan

Craigin will not be foreign to you.

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