Click here to access my analysis of the 55 new missions to be organized in July 2026 on cumorah.com. See below for the figures if you have trouble viewing these on the site when using a mobile device. A PDF of the article can be downloaded or viewed here.
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Would it be possible to see a pie chart for missions distributed by region from an earlier time (say 2013 so)?
The Church has noted significant changes for the First Presidency's Christmas Devotional starting this year. It will be a pre-recorded (rather than ticketed) event. Additionally, changes to the Church magazines have already come under this new First Presidency. My thanks once again to you all.
I always wondered why the is a first presidency Christmas Devotional and not a Easter Devotional
Anonymous, with the church putting more emphasis on giving Easter greater attention, it would not surprise me to see some sort of Easter program for the general church body in the near future. I am happy to see that Easter has been getting the special treatment it deserves in recent years
Durham Cleere, General Conference will coincide with Easter weekend next year, and the Church has announced events related to Easter for next year already:
https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/event/2026-churchwide-broadcast-events
I didn't consider that conference and Easter end up overlapping, so I suppose that makes doing an easter program/devotional much more difficult
Agree. I was about to ask the same.
On his trip to Kenya and other places in the Africa Central Area Elder Rasbabd met with a group of refugees from South Sudan he first met with 2 years ago. Most are now serving missions in Kenya. Sister Rasband as well as Elder and Sister Mutombo were in the meeting.
Kenya getting a 3rd mission is one of the most exciting things in this set of new missions.
Here is a note from the Charleston South Carolina Stake Presidency:
"Brothers and Sisters,
We are excited to share that the Charleston 3rd Spanish branch was made into a ward this past Sunday, November 2nd. This is the result of many years of work by faithful Charleston-area saints. The Charleston 3rd ward is the largest and most robust language unit in the six stakes within our coordinating council. It is one of the most thriving language units in the southeastern US. They continue to find and fellowship new members. We really appreciate the partnership with the missionaries on this great work!
The branch presidency was sustained and set apart as a bishopric in the new ward. We look forward to the ward’s continued growth. We enjoyed the recent Hispanic Heritage stake event hosted by Charleston 3rd and thank them for the hard work and planning that made it so successful. They are an integral part of our stake and we are grateful to have them in the Charleston stake community."
The Church is thriving in South Carolina. I believe five new stakes have been created there in the past five years.
I remain hopeful that Charleston South Carolina will get a temple soon. I hope we have some temple related announcements next Monday. We may have some new presidents and matron announced this week.
Durham Cleere, the Easter weekend General Conference will be preceded by a Palm Sunday service in individual congregations the Sunday prior to General Conference, to which all members and friends of the Church are invited, and a heavy focus on Holy Week, where "all are invited to reflect on the Atonement of Jesus Christ and on His greater love as we prepare to commemorate His Resurrection on Easter Sunday. Establishing Christ-centered Easter traditions could include using the Holy Week study guide and inviting friends and family to join in Palm Sunday and Easter worship."
And of the Easter General Conference weekend, the Church's event description notes: "The gospel of Jesus Christ teaches that He lives and that God loves, hears and speaks to His children. His personalized guidance and inspiration may be experienced through the counsel of living prophets, apostles, and leaders from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
"This Easter season, all are welcome and invited to hear messages of hope, peace, and the joy of eternal life made possible through the atoning sacrifice and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Join with Latter-day Saints at meetinghouses around the world on Palm Sunday, March 28, 2025, and Easter weekend, April 4–5, during the annual broadcast of general conference."
That suggests that the messages of the Easter weekend General Conference, combined with the music, will essentially constitute a 10-hour 2-day Easter-focused Church broadcast. which surely qualifies as such this year.
Incidentally, Easter also coincided with General Cionference weekend in 2018 (President Nelson's first General Conference) and 2021, and will do so again in 2029.
We will get some more major temple construction announcements next week. I am assuming one will be the opening arrangements for the Willamette Valley Oregon Temple will be announced, but we also have at least two temples (Lehi Utah and Jacksonville Florida) that are close to a groundbreaking announcement at this point. We additionally have other temples with sites confirmed and exterior renderings released that could also be added to the groundbreaking queue in coming weeks. And there are a number of announced temples that could also have more official details released in the next few weeks as well.
As far as the first leaders of new temples, I expect we will soon see such biographies for the Phnom Penh Cambodia and Miraflores Guatemala City Guatemala Temples. I want to project that will happen in the next week or so, but I also think we may soon see the newest apostle announced (as I don't see President Oaks letting that vacancy go unfilled until 5 months from now in General Conference.
New apostle Bishop Causee
Great news, Elder Gérald Caussé was called to be the newest member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. As mentioned in this newsroom article,
https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/gerald-causse-called-quorum-of-the-twelve-apostles?fbclid=IwY2xjawN6FNFleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFWYWoyQ0JXRUlEUEN1SVNuc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHhfsUrsQPPUt9xLXVBHtJ1ieX913fkuwqXGWAenzrAEavdMOrx6ElKMF-t5H_aem_htPNj6JR8AH68D8wHe1Cfg
All we got the new apostle announced today.
Called it!
Now about half of the 12 apostles were either born outside the United States, the son of immigrants, or from non-European ancestry.Elder Caussé (born and raised in France), Elder Kearon (Born in England and he spent a significant time of his youth and professional life in Saudi Arabia ), Elder Gong (Born in the United States but has Chinese ancestry), Elder Soares (born and raised in Brazil), Elder Uchtdorf (Born in what is now the Czech Republic, and raised in Germany), Elder Renlund (Born in the US to Swedish and Finnish immigrants and he lived a few years of his youth in Sweden). Several of the current apostles have served missions most outside their homeland.
I think Elder Gérald Caussé is a great pick. I'm not at all disputing this pick.
However, I think getting an apostle of dark-colored skin may help the work in many parts of the world, whether it's African American, African, Caribbean, some Asian and pacific island nations... it would ease the racial barrier I saw too often on my mission when teaching investigators of color, whether black or brown. Just my thought.
I agree Elder Caussé is a superb pick. The Church will have its' first dark-skinned apostle when the Lord says it's time for that to occur. I wonder in a lot of ways if some of the Church membership as it is currently is not ready to accept an apostle of darker skin. It has not yet been 50 years since the revelation on the priesthood was issued. But we have been getting ethnically-diverse picks with the last four apostles (Gong, Soares, Kearon, and now Caussé).
Bishop Caussé was on my top three candidates of prospective new apostles, which included as a prospect a couple more ethnically-diverse picks, including a dark-skinned individual. But I hope we can all rest assured that Elder Caussé is the right pick at this time. I wonder how soon the Presiding Bishopric will be reorganized, as it sounds like Elder Caussé will continue to function in both roles for the time being. I assume Bishops Waddell and Budge will move up a spot each, and that a new Second Counselor might be called.
Grateful for today's announcement, and I testify Elder Gerald Caussé is the right man for the time.
Well Elder Garritt W. Gong is without question and dispute not white. I know where people are coming from on other thoughts. We have neither a black apostle nor a native speaker of Spanish as an apostle. However we also have two apostles over 80 whose health is not super great, and another 3 over 80 who seem to be in much better health, this is counting all 15 apostles, so there will probably be a few changes in the next few years, for a given value of few.
With Gérald Caussé as an apostle exactly half of the articles on the current Quorum of the 12 in Wikipedia were created by me. I created the article on Gérald Caussé on the day he was called as a general authority seventy, years before he was called a Member of the Presiding bishopric. That was April 5, 2008. His article predates those on Elder Yong and Elder Renlund and possibly dome of the other apostles.
We now have 4 non-American apostles. I am not sure when the number was last that high. Maybe near the start of the 30th-century. But I sm not sure it was ever that high. Especially 4 in the Quorum of the 12. In the early 1920s you had Elder Penrose, Elder Talmage and Elder Widstoe. Elder Widstoe had replaced President Lund.
The difference is our current group of non-Americand lived most of their lives outside the US. Elder Talmage completed high school in the US, Elder Widstoe even some of elementary school. Elder Lund and Elder Penrose came To the US as young adults.
Elder Gérald Caussé lived in France until he became a general authority. Elder Soares was on a short term job assignment with the Presiding bishopric in the US when he became a general authority but was Planning to go back to Brazil. Elder Kearon has an American wife and lived for a time in the US, but was in England when called as a general authority. Elder Uchtdorf was in Germany, but was briefly two times a resident of the US.
Elder Gérald Caussé is the first native French dreaming apostle. I think we have 6 effective native languages. English leads. Elder Soares, Elder Uchtdorf and Elder Caussé are the clear non-English speakers. Those 4 languages have no question. However Elder Gong is basically A native Mandarin speaker and Elder Renlund the sane for Swedish.
While I understand and appreciate the spirit of your post, James, Elders Kearon, Soares, and Caussé are ethnically white. So it would be more accurate to say the church/Lord has chosen culturally diverse apostles recently, not ethnically diverse ones.
Now I have to wonder if it is possible Elder Caussé will dedicate any temple with an announced dedication date but no one announced to dedicate. I would be surprised. He might be at Burley and Lindon, but I think a more senior apostle will be as well, but I could be wrong.
My top prediction for apostle was Elder Valenzuela and my next was Elder Dube. After that I was all over the place so I may have thrown out Elder Causse's name.
Elder Causee is 5th Presiding bishopric to become a member of the Quorum of the 12. The other 4 were Sylvester Q. Cannon, Legrand Richards, Robert D. Hales and Gary E. Stevenson. Charles W. Nibley was a member of the First Presidency but not in the Quorum of the 12. Henry B. Eyring was a counselor in the Presiding bishopric. So was John R. Winder who was also a counselor to Joseph F. Smith.
It will be interesting to see who the new Presiding bishop is. Although that might be known and I have just not seen the announcement.
I was reading the Wikipedia article on Gérald Caussé. It states that while he was Presiding bishop the Church's charitable giving reached nearly $1billion a year. In reality I think that figure hit $1.45 billion in 2024. The article needs updating.
It took some digging but I was able to understand Elder Caussé's background more.
He was made a primary pianist at age 12 (that would have been 1975, when primary was diluring the week, unless he eas junior Sunday school pianist). He was a counselor in the Sunday School Presidency at 14, and Sunday school president at 16.
He was in military service and did not go on a full-time mission. He has served as ward clerk, counselor in a bishopric, counselor in a stake Presidency, and both Elders Quorum president and high priest group leader. He became a stake president in 2001 at age 37, and then was an area seventy for a year before he became a general authority seventy at age 44.
He and Valerie married in the Swisz Temple in 1886. The Uchtdorfs also married in the Swiss Temple. It may be the only temple outside Utah multiple apostles have married in.
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Considering how fast the church is growing in French-speaking countries, I think Elder Causse is a very inspired pick. He'll be able to minister to the (rapidly growing) Saints in the DRC in their own language, which I think is a huge blessing for them.
That's a great point, JTB! I didn't think about that factor. But the Church has seen a lot of growth in French speaking countries. I'm glad we have another multilingual apostle. And I'm grateful we got this announcement today.
Going forward, I will not publish comments that are not directly related to Church growth, whether it is about general news, holiday broadcasts, Church history, etc. This blog is a forum for discussing church growth and not tangential discussions about all-things Latter-day Saint.
Matt, when is the next planned update to the Stakes/Districts created sidebar on the main page?
The Kinshasa Democratic Republic of the Congo N'Djili Stake (12 wards, 1 branch) is having Stake Conference this weekend. Potential split.
To add to my last comment, the neighboring Kinshasa Democratic Republic of the Congo Ngaba Stake (11 wards) also has stake conference this weekend.
Not sure if this website is on anyone’s radar, but it’s been around for quite a while. It’s an excellent resource for missionary work. When I was serving as a missionary in NYC (2001-2003), Clayton Christensen, was the area seventy assigned to the NYC area, and a professor at the Harvard Business School. He loved missionary work and uncovered many powerful approaches to missionary work to our mission. He had created a case study on missionary work using the very respected and widely adopted case study method of teaching and learning developed and used by the Harvard Business School. He is a brilliant mind and a very righteous person and great teacher. While serving as a ward missionary later in life I came upon the website https://missionaryleaders.org and immediately recognized he was affiliated with it.
Here is the case study: https://missionaryresource.org/pages/media/boston.pdf
This an excellent essay he wrote about his belief based on the https://claytonchristensen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Why_I_Belong_and_Why_I_Believe.pdf
These resources are so helpful in helping us have paradigm shits in thinking that ease fears about missionary work, motivates us, helps be more effective, etc
Thank you!
Matt, I want to apologize for my part in the tangential discussions you mentioned. My comments going forward will all relate to Church growth. I had a couple of questions in that regard: historically, has there been any kind of correlation between the creation of new missions and the decision to create new geographical areas of the Church? If so, could the creation of 7 new missions in 2026 and 5 others in 2024 in the Africa West Area tell us anything about how soon (and in what manner) that area might divide?
The other question I wanted to ask relates to some of the statistical information that was provided during the most recent General Conference. Elder Gong mentioned a congregational count of 31,916 but didn't give any indication of an as of date, while Elder Cook emphasized the "nearly 900,000" converts that joined the Church during the last three years. Could those figures indicate anything about where the Church might stand statistically as the year winds down?
Matt, if any element of this comment isn't relevant, please let me know and I will happily retool it so it can be included here. Thanks for providing us this great place for these discussions.
What missions, if any, were created/discontinued in 2025?
Really appreciate this analysis, Matt. I find Figure 6 the most striking.
--Overall appears that when a lot of new missions are made, resources are being allocated to areas that are having strong growth (really looking at Africa there).
--Do you suppose that the lack of formal establishment of a dedicated mission for the countries you mention (CAR, Timor-Leste, Burundi/Rwanda, Cuba) is potential trouble with visas?
--If these would be considered "missed opportunities," which missions that were created do you think are a bit weaker in their prospects? My guess would be maybe some of the North American missions. I guess this because (per Elder Cook's conference address) North America currently is the lowest growth area of the Church. As a logistics guy myself, it makes me wonder how much easier it is to create a North American mission and if that is playing a role.
Evern though the reorganization recently of the Miami Florida Stake (503436), all of the Wards/Branches are Spanish Speaking now. And I'm told on the CDOL, the Stake is also listed as Miami Florida Stake (Spanish) (503436)
https://maps.churchofjesuschrist.org/stakes/503436
The Meetinghouse site still has the Stake as English Speaking.
Only 1 New Mission was organized on or near the July 1st start dates. No consolidations
Europe Central Turkic and Persian Speaking Mission
https://maps.churchofjesuschrist.org/missions/2300990
Announced in the Church News in June 2025.
https://www.thechurchnews.com/leaders/2025/06/17/new-mission-leaders-philippines-cebu-europe-central-turkic-and-persian-speaking/
* shifts
Clayton Christensen wrote the book: The Everyday Power of Missionaries, which discussed church growth and gave clear, specific ideas on how we can be better member missionaries.
Possible areas for area for new YSA Stakes
Los Angeles, California
Oakland/San Francisco, California (Bay Area)
Las Vegas, Nevada
Seattle/Tacoma, Washington.
Oddly, the Murray Utah Little Cottonwood Stake (505986), doesn't have any more Conferences posted after February 8th, 2026. Maybe just a technical oversight. But most of the rest of the Stakes have both Scheduled Conferences for 2026 posted on the Meetinghouse Site. It currently has the minimum of 5 Wards. But maybe a reorganization planned?
https://maps.churchofjesuschrist.org/stakes/505986
Also, from my last comment, the Murray Utah North Stake (511668), with 5 Wards + 1 Branch, has a conference on the same weekend of February 8th. And again a few weeks later on March 15th, 2026. I don't know if the 2 Stakes are neighbors. Or if just coincidence, It gives me the impression of a possible merger with the above-mentioned Murray Utah Little Cottonwood Stake (505986).
https://maps.churchofjesuschrist.org/stakes/511668
Okay, a Continuation of my previous 2 comments. I just found the Murray Utah Parkway Stake (521205), with 5 Wards. Also has only one conference posted for the same weekend of February 8th for 2026. I wonder if we will see a triple merger that weekend.
https://maps.churchofjesuschrist.org/stakes/521205
Upon further investigation, it appears all 6 Murray Stakes have conference planned the same days February 7-8. So maybe all 6 will be reshuffled?
Murray Utah Little Cottonwood Stake (505986)
Murray Utah North Stake (511668)
Murray Utah Parkway Stake (521205)
Murray Utah South Stake (502642)
Murray Utah Stake (501999)
Murray Utah West (505129)
Durham,
These are the next Stakes that were organized after the Beaumont Alberta Stake. Including the Tarawa Kiribati North Stake (already on the sidebar). Last week it was reported here the Alaminos Philippines District became a Stake. But it has not been updated on the website yet, so I am not including it here until it gets updated on the official church records.
Orem Utah YSA 5th 2025-09-21
Payson Utah Arrowhead 2025-10-19
Tarawa Kiribati North 2016-01-17 (D), 2025-10-19 (S)
Vineyard Utah YSA 2025-10-19
Santaquin Utah South 2025-11-02
Santa Rosa Philippines 2025-11-02
No new Districts to be added. Nor any known consolidations since.
Also, found the Salt Lake Winder West Stake (507695), has no conferences planned after next conference 12/07/25. The same day that the neighboring stake Salt Lake Winder Stake (503029) has scheduled. Another possible merger next month?
https://maps.churchofjesuschrist.org/stakes/507695
https://maps.churchofjesuschrist.org/stakes/503029
Also just came across this one also.
The Salt Lake Riverside Stake on 11/23. No Conferences posted for next year 2026. Trying to ascertain which of the neighbors is on the same weekend 11/23 that could be the merger.
https://maps.churchofjesuschrist.org/stakes/501425
The Salt Lake Riverside Stake (501425), that i mentioned in the last comment, based on research on dates and neighboring Stakes. I gather it could go to either the Salt Lake Rose Park Stake (502421) to the north, or the Salt Lake Pioneer Stake (500542) to the south. Or split between both. All 3 have Stake conference the same weekend of November 22nd and November 23rd, 2025. And all 3 located near the Salt Lake International Airport.
https://maps.churchofjesuschrist.org/stakes/501425
https://maps.churchofjesuschrist.org/stakes/500542
https://maps.churchofjesuschrist.org/stakes/502421
In other news, the possible merger of the Taylorsville Utah Central Stake (506575) into the Taylorsville Utah Heritage Park Stake (508950), both having next Stake Conferences same weekend November 22nd and 23rd, 2025. But the Central Stake has no Conferences posted for all of 2026.
https://maps.churchofjesuschrist.org/stakes/506575
https://maps.churchofjesuschrist.org/stakes/508950
Also, the Taylorsville Utah Stake (502367) and Taylorsville Utah South Stake (516120) have the next conference January 18th, 2026. And again in May 2026. But nothing posted for last six months of July to December 2026 yet. Not sure if something in the works there?
https://maps.churchofjesuschrist.org/stakes/502367
https://maps.churchofjesuschrist.org/stakes/516120
On a brighter note, It's possible between the Washington Utah Coral Canyon Stake (2268140) that had conference today 11/09, and the Washington Utah East Stake (557501), that has conference on 12/07, both have an additional conference scheduled on January 10th-11th, 2026.
https://maps.churchofjesuschrist.org/stakes/2268140
https://maps.churchofjesuschrist.org/stakes/557501
I wonder if there is a split for a 3rd stake on 01/11/26 ? They have the regular 6 month conferences on May 17th and June 7th, 2026.
New stakes list has been updated.
Craig Shuler says, The leadership transitions have been so beautiful the last few weeks. I speculate that there will be another one this week, with a new Presiding Bishopric next Thursday.
A new stake was created November 9th, from a division of Harare Zimbabwe Stake (277533), the Domboshawa Zimbabwe Stake (2312530) which comprises of 4 wards; Domboshawa 1st, Domboshawa. 2nd, Domboshawa 3rd, and Hatcliffe Wards.
I actually learned a lot about Church growth in my area (the Rhine-Main-Region in Germany) yesterday when I attended a friend's birthday get-together. It was extremely interesting to me since, in my ward where the Church has been really visible for several decades because of the temple and a high membership density, growth has barely accelerated in the last couple of years. We are still very much chugging along at our 2 or 3 convert baptisms a year, which is to be expected when everyone around has pretty much made up their minds about the Church already.
But elsewhere in the metro area the situation is apparently very different. I got to meet and talk to several people who were baptized this year and who are preparing to serve missions. I also talked to a Relief Society presidency counselor from one of the wards here who said that so many sisters are getting baptized in her ward that they are starting to have some issues properly welcoming and integrating them in Relief Society (the ward is already very large with several hundreds of people in attendance on average). Finally, I also reconnected with an Elder who had previously served in my ward and was now in my friend's ward. In-between these two areas, he served in a branch farther south in the Frankfurt Mission, which for years had been struggling and had always been close to consolidation. He mentioned to me that when he left that area after three months, they had 18 people on date for baptism and they were finding sometimes dozens of new friends per week.
A lot of this acceleration has apparently been because the Church has been doing extremely well with online finding, especially with young adults. The message is very much spot on and focuses much more on topics like (social) belonging, hope, peace, and our divine potential than it does about deep doctrine - very appropriate for a generation that has been absolutely ravaged socially by pandemic restrictions and that is now being prepared from all sides to go to war soon. I know from credible sources that the Frankfurt Mission receives typically several hundreds of self-referrals each week, of course of various levels of quality and seriousness. The success with younger people is a pretty big shift compared to only a few years ago; I remember that when I was baptized in early 2012 and throughout the 2010s, I was typically the only or at least one of the very few adult converts at Institute, YSA conventions or firesides. Young ethnic Germans joining the Church was not really much of a thing back then. I have heard anecdotally that these types of events now split about evenly between YSA raised in the Church and converts and I have very little doubt this is accurate.
Also, in Kinshasa Democratic Republic of the Congo :
Kinshasa Democratic Republic of the Congo Fer Bois Stake (2307553)
Organized 9 November 2025
- Fer Bois 1st Ward
- Fer Bois 2nd Ward
- Kingasani 1st Ward
- Kingasani 4th Ward
- Mokali Ward
- Mulie Ward
- Sakombi Ward
Assigned Mission: Democratic Republic of the Congo Kinshasa South Mission
Assigned Temple: Kinshasa Democratic Republic of the Congo Temple
Domboshawa Zimbabwe Stake (2312530)
Organized 9 November 2025
- Domboshawa 1st Ward
- Domboshawa 2nd Ward
- Domboshawa 3rd Ward
- Hatcliffe Ward
Assigned Mission: Zimbabwe Harare Mission
Assigned Temple: Johannesburg South Africa Temple
They all have 5 with exception of the south stake having 6 wards. I don't know how big these wards are, but I would imagine these maybe small as people move to the suburbs. Consequently, I could see some mergers take place. Maybe stakes with 7-8 or so healthy wards to keep from having to come back for further consolidation anytime soon.
Murray Utah Little Cottonwood Stake and Murray Utah Parkway Stake doesn't have any conferences beyond February while the others do; so I'll give it a good chance they will be consolidated.
Thank you Matt!
A new stake was created in Calgary, Alberta, Canada this past weekend. Not sure its exact name yet.
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1217455077078011&set=a.456226079867585
Matt, On your new stake list You have the Beaumont Alberta stake listed twice as number 65 in September and number 73 in November.
Caleb, could it possibly be the "Airdrie Alberta Stake" since the post you quoted is from a group or organization calling themselves the "Airdrie Alberta Stake". This is the first mention in my records of a Stake of Zion called Airdrie Alberta?
https://www.facebook.com/airdriealbertastake
Also, the Creekside Ward (253979), East Lake Ward (438073) and Reunion Ward (199818) , all meet in the meetinghouse located at 900 Reunion Gateway NW, Airdrie, AB address on the Facebook page above mentioned. And also in Airdrie, the Luxstone Ward (1075861) and the Yankee Valley Ward (2021285) meet in the other Meetinghouse there.
https://maps.churchofjesuschrist.org/meetinghouses/5967075-01-01
https://maps.churchofjesuschrist.org/meetinghouses/5342880-01-01
I could see these 5 wards being the core units to a new Airdrie Alberta Stake if it happened.
That would leave just 3 Wards and a Branch in the old Calgary North Stake.
https://maps.churchofjesuschrist.org/stakes/504556
Also reported elsewhere, on the Ward level growth, the Round Rock Texas East Stake (in the North Austin area) got a new Ward yesterday, 11/09/25. The new Hutto Ward (2314584)
https://maps.churchofjesuschrist.org/wards/2314584
https://www.reddit.com/r/MormonShrivel/comments/1otdl11/ward_combination_in_texas_usa/
This other post, shows a copy of the letter to the members and a link to the new ward proposed boundaries.
I recently learned that in my stake in central Europe we had 55 convert baptisms between July 24 - June 24 (1 year). An average of 5 per congregation. This number is twice as high as a good year before covid. In 2Q 25 my stake also had the hightest sacrament meeting attendance ever (since my stake was divieded in 2007). I also noticed this during my stake conference last sunday. The meeting was quite full and it was the first time, since we started renting the parking garage of a local super market, nearby that there was not enough parking.
Are there two 63s on the new stake list?
Thank you for letting me know about the errors in the new stakes list for 2025. I made the corrections.
For those curious or interested, after reviewing the Meetinghouse website, with 475 known Mission Districts. I have found currently the following 214 of those have posted at least one next District Conference dates in rest of 2025 and 2026. If Matt approves the post, I will list all 214 Districts in order by date. I hope it will start a conversation, of which if any are the most likely to be the next to become stakes based on the Dates posted publicly, and your own research of total number of branches in the districts.
Of the remaining Mission districts, most are from all of Mexico, Central and South America, and a few African countries. But from all of Mexico, only one has a Date posted for the Minatitlán México Tecnológico District (526819), for 2 weeks from now. I wonder if that is to become a Stake?
Also, the old Saratov Russia Stake (now District), has posted 4 conference dates for 2026. Possibly from the old schedule before it was downgraded status.
Matt, If you feel this post or the subsequent list is irrelevant or too much. Feel free to delete it entirely.
11/16/25 Seoul Korea Military
11/16/25 Québec City
11/16/25 Espargos Cape Verde
11/16/25 Addis Ababa Ethiopia
11/16/25 Vanua Levu Fiji
11/16/25 Oda Ghana
11/16/25 Georgetown Guyana
11/16/25 Shikoku Japan
11/16/25 Tolagnaro Madagascar
11/16/25 Namoneas Chuuk
11/16/25 Darkhan Mongolia
11/16/25 Ligao Philippines
11/16/25 Maseru Lesotho
11/16/25 Wendover Utah
11/16/25 Carúpano Venezuela
11/16/25 Kitwe Zambia
11/23/25 Okinawa Japan Military
11/23/25 Guadeloupe
11/23/25 Kampong Cham Cambodia
11/23/25 Abengourou Cote d'Ivoire
11/23/25 Dakar Senegal
11/23/25 Bani Dominican Republic
11/23/25 Kisumu Kenya
11/23/25 Mauritius
11/23/25 Chimoio Mozambique
11/23/25 Avarua Cook Islands
11/23/25 Okrika Nigeria
11/23/25 Islamabad Pakistan
11/23/25 Bangued Philippines
11/23/25 Roxas Philippines Isabela
11/23/25 Masbate Philippines
11/23/25 Santa Cruz Marinduque Philippines
11/23/25 Lesser Antilles North
11/23/25 Rostov-na-Donu Russia
11/23/25 Novosibirsk Russia
11/23/25 Dar es Salaam Tanzania Chang'ombe
11/23/25 La FrÃa Venezuela
11/23/25 Hanoi Vietnam
11/23/25 Minatitlán México Tecnológico
11/30/25 Vilnius Lithuania
11/30/25 Havana Cuba
11/30/25 Kpong Ghana
11/30/25 Bibiani Ghana
11/30/25 Axim Ghana
11/30/25 Chennai India
11/30/25 Nakuru Kenya
11/30/25 Jeju Korea
11/30/25 Gangneung Korea
11/30/25 St Denis Reunion
11/30/25 Agbor Nigeria
11/30/25 Marbel Philippines
11/30/25 Borongan Philippines
11/30/25 Açores Portugal
11/30/25 Saratov Russia
11/30/25 Porlamar Venezuela
11/30/25 Valera Venezuela
12/07/25 Libreville Gabon
12/07/25 Macau China
12/07/25 Monte Plata Dominican Republic
12/07/25 Cotui Dominican Republic
12/07/25 Azua Dominican Republic
12/07/25 ABC Islands
12/07/25 Nassau Caribbean
12/07/25 Kagoshima Japan
12/07/25 Ulsan Korea
12/07/25 Ifo Nigeria
12/07/25 Karachi Pakistan
12/07/25 Balingasag Philippines
12/07/25 Dipolog Philippines
12/07/25 Sablayan Philippines
12/07/25 Argao Philippines
12/07/25 Baybay Philippines
12/07/25 Kuching Malaysia
12/07/25 Gulu Uganda
12/07/25 El Rosario Venezuela
12/14/25 Kisangani Democratic Republic of the Congo
12/14/25 Colombo Sri Lanka
12/14/25 Gingoog Philippines
12/14/25 San Jose Mindoro Philippines Occidental
12/14/25 Cotabato Philippines
12/14/25 Mwanza Tanzania
12/14/25 Kadoma Zimbabwe
01/11/26 Luganville Vanuatu
01/18/26 Battambang Cambodia
01/18/26 Visakhapatnam India
01/18/26 Bongabon Philippines
01/18/26 Bogo Philippines
01/18/26 Sogod Philippines
01/25/26 Ozamiz Philippines
01/25/26 San Carlos Philippines
01/25/26 Sipalay Philippines
01/25/26 Tabaco Philippines
02/01/26 La Carlota Philippines
02/01/26 Pagadian Philippines
02/01/26 Balayan Philippines
02/01/26 Kidapawan Philippines
02/01/26 Antique Philippines
02/01/26 Hinunangan Philippines
02/08/26 Aboisso Cote d'Ivoire
02/08/26 Alepe Cote d'Ivoire
02/08/26 Sinfra Cote d'Ivoire
02/08/26 Sunyani Ghana
02/08/26 Morioka Japan
02/08/26 Faisalabad Pakistan
02/08/26 Mindoro Oriental Philippines
02/08/26 Calape Philippines
02/08/26 Monkayo Philippines
02/08/26 Bulan Philippines
02/08/26 Biliran Philippines
02/08/26 Yekaterinburg Russia
02/08/26 Miri Malaysia
02/08/26 Honiara Solomon Islands
02/15/26 Yerevan Armenia
02/15/26 Dzodze Ghana
02/15/26 Niigata Japan
02/15/26 Kiritimati Island Kiribati
02/15/26 Taranaki New Zealand
02/15/26 Surigao Philippines
02/15/26 Catbalogan Philippines
02/15/26 Niua Tonga
02/22/26 Coffs Harbour Australia
02/22/26 Nsukka Nigeria
02/22/26 Bori Nigeria
03/01/26 North Queensland Australia
03/01/26 Siem Reap Cambodia
03/01/26 Bouafle Cote d'Ivoire
03/01/26 Conakry Guinea
03/01/26 Ho Ghana
03/01/26 Szombathely Hungary
03/01/26 Nelson New Zealand
03/01/26 Otukpo Nigeria
03/01/26 Ugep Nigeria
03/01/26 Oron Nigeria
03/01/26 Goroka Papua New Guinea
03/01/26 Movaeve Papua New Guinea
03/01/26 Bislig Philippines
03/01/26 Baler Philippines
03/01/26 Bangui Philippines
03/01/26 Catanduanes Philippines
03/01/26 Narra Philippines
03/01/26 Gonzaga Philippines
03/01/26 Moriba Town Sierra Leone
03/01/26 Kota Kinabalu Malaysia
03/01/26 Ha'apai Tonga Lulunga
03/08/26 Phnom Penh Cambodia East
03/08/26 Tarkwa Ghana
03/08/26 Yamaguchi Japan
03/08/26 Aomori Japan
03/08/26 Kakata Liberia
03/08/26 Sogere Papua New Guinea
03/08/26 Jordan Philippines
03/08/26 Sorsogon Philippines
03/08/26 Brașov Romania
03/15/26 Nagano Japan
03/15/26 Koriyama Japan
03/15/26 Harbel Liberia
03/15/26 Isumo Papua New Guinea
03/15/26 Bauang Philippines
03/15/26 Solano Philippines
03/15/26 Quezon Philippines Palawan
03/22/26 Orange Australia
03/22/26 Bohicon Benin
03/22/26 Twifu Praso Ghana
03/22/26 Obuasi Ghana
03/22/26 Ilorin Nigeria
03/22/26 Sepik River Papua New Guinea
03/22/26 Rigo Papua New Guinea
03/22/26 Pandan Philippines
03/22/26 Makeni Sierra Leone
03/22/26 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
03/22/26 Udorn Thailand
03/22/26 Chiang Mai Thailand
03/22/26 Malekula Vanuatu
03/29/26 Southern Kiribati
03/29/26 Suki Papua New Guinea
03/29/26 Bambang Philippines
03/29/26 Sibu Malaysia
04/12/26 Tamale Ghana
04/19/26 Saint Marc Haiti
04/19/26 Lahore Pakistan
04/19/26 Tanjay Philippines
05/03/26 Dabou Cote d'Ivoire
05/03/26 Duekoue Cote d'Ivoire
05/03/26 Suncheon Korea
05/03/26 Azikoro Nigeria
05/10/26 Maxixe Mozambique
05/10/26 Iyahe Nigeria
05/17/26 Northern Territory Australia
05/17/26 Bratislava Slovakia
05/17/26 Techiman Ghana
05/17/26 Nsukwa Nigeria
05/17/26 Koidu Sierra Leone
05/24/26 Mandeville Jamaica
05/24/26 Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam
05/31/26 Christ Church Barbados
06/14/26 Tallinn Estonia
06/14/26 Coimbatore India
06/14/26 Surabaya Indonesia
06/14/26 Ogwashi Nigeria
06/14/26 Ubay Philippines
06/14/26 Umeå Sweden
06/14/26 L'viv Ukraine
06/21/26 Hong Kong China (English)
06/21/26 Issia Cote d'Ivoire
08/16/26 Reykjavik Iceland
09/06/26 Europe Central Turkic and Persian-Speaking
09/13/26 Warsaw Poland
09/20/26 Donetsk Ukraine
09/20/26 Odessa Ukraine
10/18/26 Sofia Bulgaria
10/18/26 Baleares Spain
11/08/26 Nicosia Cyprus
11/18/26 Adriatic North
11/22/26 Debrecen Hungary
The Guatemala Central Stake (518425) just had a conference this weekend, 11/08-11/09, and has another scheduled in 2 weeks, 11/22-11/23/25.
https://maps.churchofjesuschrist.org/stakes/518425
The Ritchfield Utah East Stake (509345), just had a stake conference this weekend 11/08-11/09/25. And has another scheduled next weekend 11/15-11/16/25. A neighboring Stake to the south, Central Valley Utah Stake (2139685), has conference scheduled this weekend also 11/15-11/16/25.
Maybe changes between both?
https://maps.churchofjesuschrist.org/stakes/509345
https://maps.churchofjesuschrist.org/stakes/2139685
I hope this is relevant to Church growth: The Church News recently shared that, during his Central African ministry, Elder Rasband formally dedicated the Kinshasa Democtratic Republic of the Congo MTC. Hopefully this will have a continued positive impact on the growth of the Church in Africa in general and the Africa Central Area in particular.
The Addis Ababa Ethiopia District was split into 2 Districts - Addis Ababa District and Bishoftu District. Great to see growth but slow going for such a large population.
I hope this is pertinent to Church growth: Some of you might recall that, a while ago, the Mexico Mexico City West Mission President was shot during an incident. His recovery necessitated his release, and the Church News shared information about the couple who replaced him and his wife.
Elder Rasband dedicated the new MTC in Kinshasa recently. In coverage of this they link it partly to the high percentage of recent covers in the Africa Central Area who are young adults who want to serve missions. The MTC has already expanded to not just serving to instruct French speakers for serving in French speaking areas as missionaries but also to teach non-French speakers French and to give instruction in English. The statement is this is teaching French speakers English but the example given is a missionary coming from Dar-es-Salaam and heading to the Johannesburg South Africa mission. He may in fact know more French than English, but his first language is most likely Swahili.
Where did you find this information? I am not seeing anything online about it.
Matt, on the website, it says the District WILL have a conference this weekend 11/16/2025. So it's possible it may happen this weekend, not last weekend.
https://maps.churchofjesuschrist.org/stakes/1123769
From the mission Facebook page (private group setting). Split this past weekend.
It looks like the new stake organized in Calgary this past weekend is indeed the Airdrie Alberta Stake, as Chris D guessed above. It has 6 wards and a branch. That's three new stakes for Alberta this year, one in greater Edmonton, one in greater Calgary, and one in the heavily LDS south!
https://maps.churchofjesuschrist.org/stakes/504556
@Pascal Friedmann
Very glad to hear about the growth in your area of Germany!
Were you hearing that conversions were mostly among ethnic Germans, or were there also a good number of converts from other ethnic groups, immigrants or refugees?
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