The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Sweden
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) (), headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, has been in Sweden since 1850. History. The Book of Mormon was translated into Swedish in 1878. As with many other Scandinavian converts, Swedish LDS were encouraged to emigrate to the US and build up "Zion" there; these included the ancestors of a previous church president, Thomas S. Monson, whose grandfather, Nels Monson (born Torhamn), emigrated at the age of 16. This depleted local numbers for a number of decades, until in  the late twentieth century, this policy was discontinued, and a temple built within the country itself. As of 2019, the LDS Church counted its number of members in Sweden to be just above 9,716, divided into 4 regional units with a total of 40 congregations. This was an increase in membership from 2014, which was 9,463. The Church also maintains one temple in the country, the Stockholm Sweden Temple, in Västerhaninge. The Swedish Rescue. Around 2010, a number of Swedish members of the LDS Church, including former area seventy Hans Mattsson, began to doubt the veracity of the church. Marlin  K. Jensen, a church general authority, and historian Richard E. Turley Jr. soon after conducted a fireside, an informal church meeting, at the Västerhaninge Chapel in Stockholm, Sweden, on November 28, 2010. The audio was surreptitiously recorded and sparked much discussion and interest in the blogosphere. Stakes. As of May 2021, the following stakes were located in Sweden: