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This week in Mormon Land: Convert retention rates around the world, reaching out to asylum seekers, and disappearing Bibles

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Getting converts into the font is one thing. Keeping them in the pews is something else.

Matt Martinich decided to find out. The independent researcher surveyed thousands of returned missionaries to see how many converts remained active in the faith a year after their baptism.