How long do it take a person to convert to Mormonism?
I am a 26 yr old male. Went to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida on my mission. I joined the Church when I was 19. Was raised Catholic/Methodist, so I received a great deal of resistance from family and friends. I took the discussions over the summer between my senior year of high school and freshman year of college, and I genuinely was ready after taking the discussions to get baptized. My parents, thinking this was just a phase, asked me to wait a year and see how I felt after that. I started my first year of college at The University of Arizona, and spent that entire year deeply studying the Church along with other religions (and I will never stop learning about other religions…my testimony grows greatly from this). At the end of my first year of college, I had honored my parents’ wishes to wait a year. I told them I was ready to be baptized, they disowned me. I had fantastic missionaries. They didn’t jump the gun and try to push me to get baptized when my parents asked me to wait, as they
Did you mean to ask, “How long does it take a person to convert?” If so, then the answer is that it depends on the person. The missionary discussions are designed with the idea of getting the potential convert baptized in about 2 weeks from the time of the first discussion. That’s the ideal situation. Many people take longer before they are ready to commit to the Church. Sometimes it can take years. For Brigham Young (the second president of the Church) it took two years to become converted. Others may take even longer. So, it is really imposible to give a specific answer to this question because it really is going to vary from person to person. The important thing is for the member friends to be patient and to show through words and deeds that they will accept and love the investigator whether they join or not. Well, things may have changed since my mission. When I was a missionary, it was supposed to be a two-week process. Personally, I never had anyone that moved through it that fas
Well, my 18 year old son was in attending Catholic for a few weeks shy of a year and appearing to have every intent to be baptized in the Catholic on Easter of 2007. When all of a sudden and out of the blue he was Baptized a Mormon. So either he was working both angle at the same time (which I don’ believe he had the time) or was hypnotically brainwashed. His conversion appeared to happen overnight and the Mormons appeared to get him in their cult as soon as possible so he could start paying his 10% , having babies, and converting as many family members and friends as he can. It has made him a fanatical judgmental little monster who can not listen anymore but has is able through wrote-memorization and brainwashing to spout out vesus of the B of K. He is unable to question church doctrines because Mormons teach that it tis evil to intellectually question LDS teachings. Anyhow, from my first hand experience with my Son’s conversion process, the Mormons will bring you into their fold, tel
