MormonLeaks: Mission Statistics

[oliblish]

MormonLeaks published some statistics for missions in Central America.

https://mormonleaks.io/wiki/index.php?t ... REPORT.pdf

It includes sacrament meeting attendance numbers for 2013 and 2014 (even though they are labeled 2014 and 2015)
Combining those statistics with what is available on cumorah.com, I was able to fill in the gaps and come up with some interesting information about those countries:

Sacrament attendance for all of Central America went from 16.7% to 16.1%
All of the countries had average Sacrament meeting attendance of less than 20% for both years.
Sacrament attendance for Nicaragua in 2014 was 12.3%

Even with over 3500 missionaries in this area, sacrament meeting attendance dropped from 117687 to 116679 from 2013 to 2014.

2013

Central America Total
Membership : 702789
Sacrament attendance : 117687
Units (wards and branches) : 1053
Members per Unit : 667.4
Sacrament attendance % : 16.7%
Attendance per unit : 111.8

Nicaragua
Membership : 84405
Sacrament attendance : 11472
Units (wards and branches) : 101
Members per Unit : 836
Sacrament attendance % : 13.6%
Attendance per unit : 113.6

Panama
Membership : 50062
Sacrament attendance : 6414
Units (wards and branches) : 72
Members per Unit : 695
Sacrament attendance % : 12.8%
Attendance per unit : 89.1

Costa Rica
Membership : 42943
Sacrament attendance : 7026
Units (wards and branches) : 73
Members per Unit : 588
Sacrament attendance % : 16.4%
Attendance per unit : 96.2

El Salvador
Membership : 117234
Sacrament attendance : 18511
Units (wards and branches) : 164
Members per Unit : 715
Sacrament attendance % : 15.8%
Attendance per unit : 112.9

Guatemala
Membership : 247708
Sacrament attendance : 47513
Units (wards and branches) : 417
Members per Unit : 594
Sacrament attendance % : 19.2%
Attendance per unit : 113.9

Honduras
Membership : 160437
Sacrament attendance : 26751
Units (wards and branches) : 226
Members per Unit : 710
Sacrament attendance % : 16.7%
Attendance per unit : 118.4

2014

Central America Total
Membership : 724984
Sacrament attendance : 116679
Units (wards and branches) : 1060
Members per Unit : 683.9
Sacrament attendance % : 16.1%
Attendance per unit : 110.1

Nicaragua
Membership : 87880
Sacrament attendance : 10822
Units (wards and branches) : 101
Members per Unit : 870
Sacrament attendance % : 12.3%
Attendance per unit : 107.1

Panama
Membership : 51102
Sacrament attendance : 6438
Units (wards and branches) : 71
Members per Unit : 720
Sacrament attendance % : 12.6%
Attendance per unit : 90.7

Costa Rica
Membership : 44627
Sacrament attendance : 7052
Units (wards and branches) : 74
Members per Unit : 603
Sacrament attendance % : 15.8%
Attendance per unit : 95.3

El Salvador
Membership : 120317
Sacrament attendance : 18335
Units (wards and branches) : 164
Members per Unit : 734
Sacrament attendance % : 15.2%
Attendance per unit : 111.8

Guatemala
Membership : 255505
Sacrament attendance : 46666
Units (wards and branches) : 421
Members per Unit : 607
Sacrament attendance % : 18.3%
Attendance per unit : 110.8

Honduras
Membership : 165553
Sacrament attendance : 27366
Units (wards and branches) : 229
Members per Unit : 723
Sacrament attendance % : 16.5%
Attendance per unit : 119.5

[MoPag]

WOW

I wonder how SLC is spinning this?

Also, good work Oliblish on filling in the gaps and providing us further light and knowledge!

[Corsair]

I wonder how SLC is spinning this?

Probably by ignoring it as much as possible. Drawing any attention to it would only hurt them. Missionaries who served in those areas will glumly acknowledge the rampant inactivity then possibly renew their own efforts at ministering.

This is a tiny slice of the report I would really like to see. All ward clerks send quarterly reports of directly counted sacrament meeting attendance. I would love to see that data for the entire church broken out by region. My bishop loved to have a big missionary homecoming or farewell to boost our ward's numbers since our budget allowance was derived from attendance numbers in the quarterly report.

[Margarita]

Seems like a lot of baptizing with "no shows"...what does this say about what they are being told and what they learn...seems like the church is offering something else..perhaps other needs are being met but the doctrine is being ignored.

[wtfluff]

I wonder how SLC is spinning this?

They stopped reading any "statistical report" in general conference, and they hope that no-one will bother to look at the statistics they publish on their website. The vast majority of believers will not look, so... Mission (spin) accomplished!

[oliblish]

I wonder how SLC is spinning this?

They stopped reading any "statistical report" in general conference, and they hope that no-one will bother to look at the statistics they publish on their website. The vast majority of believers will not look, so... Mission (spin) accomplished!

They spin it by inserting this into the header of this report:

MISSIONARY DEPARTMENT STATISTICAL REPORT
CONFIDENTIAL: FOR YOUR USE ONLY. DO NOT DISTRIBUTE OR REPRODUCE.

Fortunately whoever submitted this document to MormonLeaks did not follow directions.