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Hello. Hello, everyone. Welcome to Latter Day Struggles. This is Valerie, your host, and I have Nathan here by my side. How are you?

I'm wonderful.

All right. So we are on part two of a little series that is going to be really focused on this growth report. It is titled The End of Growth, Fating Prospects for Latter-day Saint Expansion. So if you want to get us kicked

off, Nathan, would you just go ahead and give us a little bit of an overview of what we talked

about last time? Because this is going to be a multi-part series. That is kind of, I don't know, is it fair to say it's a little numbers

heavy? I wouldn't say it's terrible, but there is a little bit of sort of setting the stage

with some numbers to help us better understand the growth trends here in the Church of Jesus

Christ of Latter-day Saints as opposed to the predictions from about 30 years ago.

No, that's exactly right. Perfect, perfect summary.

This is a report by David Stewart, who is a professor at the University of Nevada,

Las Vegas, and he published this in 2022.

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