1. Growth in 1985, for example, was 1.8 percent (see LDS Church Membership Statistical Reports [Salt Lake City: Church Educational System, 1985]).

2. Kenneth I. Shine, “A Yank in London—Observations on British Medicine and Science,” Western Journal of Medicine 145 (September 1986): 406.

3. David Frost and Antony Jay, The English (Briercliff Manor, N.Y.: Stein and Day, 1968), 25–42; Anthony Sampson, The Changing Anatomy of Britain (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1982), 58, 127–28.

4. Personal communication from C. E. Wonnacott, president, England Bristol Mission, 1976–79; personal communication from Lorenzo N. Hoopes, president, England Bristol Mission, 1979–82. President Hoopes subsequently has mentioned his impression that while some members are negative about the missionary effort others are more pro-American and supportive of vigorous missionary activity. Even larger numbers, he notes, have no strong views either way and tend to support the views of those perceived as the leaders. President Hoopes attributes this tendency to cultural attitudes of dependency.

5. President Joseph Fielding Smith, “To the Saints in Great Britain,” Ensign 1 (September 1971): 34: “Thus the Church is not an American church except in America. . . . [I]n Great Britain it is a British church. . . . We expect our members everywhere to learn correct principles and to govern themselves . . . and stand as spiritual leaders in their nations” (originally delivered at Manchester England Area Conference, 27 August 1971).

6. Loren C. Dunn, in Conference Report, Manchester England Area Conference 1971, 152.

7. History of the Church 2:487–89.

8. President Spencer W. Kimball, quoted by President Ezra Taft Benson at mission presidents’ conference, Salt Lake City, 3 April 1985.

9. A brochure with details of plans for the unified system is on file, along with related papers, with mission presidents’ reports in Library-Archives, Historical Department, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City. Reports of evolving development and progress were made regularly at mission presidents’ seminars.

10. The 250 converts in 1984 were the same as in most of the years from 1971 to 1981, even with a major reduction in the number of missionaries. The improved net growth came from improved retention of new members.

11. Adjusted for number of missionaries at 1982 level.

12. Adjusted for number of missionaries at 1982 level.

Madison H. Thomas

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