The purpose of this report is to encourage all Christians to witness to the lost, as Christ commanded in Matthew 28. Specifically, the verse, “teaching them to observe all that I commanded you,” (Matt 28:20) reminds us to share Christ’s commands, including making disciples worldwide by preaching God’s Word, both in and out of season. Personally, I view attending the General Conference of the Latter-Day Saints as an “in-season” witnessing opportunity. Regular participation in such events prepares me for “out-of-season” moments that God brings into daily life.

Another goal of this report is to equip you with the knowledge needed to engage Mormons, addressing their false understanding of God and Christ’s work on the cross. As ambassadors of Christ, we must “exhort in sound doctrine and refute those who contradict” (Titus 1:9). Paul often warns of “those of the circumcision,” likening them to false teachers (Philippians 3:2). Similarly, Mormons, though they reject physical circumcision, place themselves under the Law through “temple covenants,” where they pledge to follow commands from the Old Testament, New Testament, and Book of Mormon. This merging of covenants creates theological confusion. Paul, in Romans and Hebrews, makes it clear: one cannot be under both the Old and New Covenants. Those seeking justification through the Law are severed from Christ and grace. By embracing a false gospel, Mormons tragically cut themselves off from salvation, facing eternal separation from God.

I recently returned from my third mission's trip this year where I met with some of the best veteran Christian missionaries who have experience witnessing not only to Mormons but people in other religions as well. So below are some of my best interviews and face-to-face street witnessing experiences we had together this year.  This first video is of Kevin Deegan who is a street preacher with 40 years of experience.  While his approach of street preaching is not a method that our ministry supports, when he came over to our table to talk and ended up witnessing to some Mormons in our area, his conversation with our volunteer Bob Pilch is one of the best conversations we had this year.  In this video Kevin sharing the problems with the Mormon priesthood authority claims with an LDS guy who had stopped by our "Friendly Anti-Mormon" table to take some tracts and ask a few question. Not only was Kevin able to share the evidence against their LDS Church's authority claims, but Bob and him together were able to present the pure gospel of Jesus Christ and why we can't rely on our commandment obedience. It's a beautiful video demonstrating what it is like to share our faith with people of other religions, with decency and respect:

It was about an hour after the last session of the LDS Fall General Conference had ended on Sunday, October 1st, 2023, when I stood at the West Temple exit with my sign "Does the LDS Church Blame Jesus for Joseph Smith's FAKE Translation?" Right about that time, a group of professionally dressed General Conference officials came out of the gates around the Conference Center and stood at the street corner waiting to cross the street to the mall.

Looking at the crowd to see if anyone would be interested in taking my tract, my eyes caught Elder Todd Christofferson's scowl as he read my sign, then motioned to me a "naughty" symbol with his fingers trying to shame me for displaying my sign right outside of the LDS Conference Center.

Twenty years ago, Christy Darlington and Marshall Almarode were in Utah, witnessing to Mormons with Marshall's large display scroll sign of Joseph Smith's Book of Abraham.  Although evidence shows that Joseph Smith did not accurately translate the text of this papyrus, one LDS man came up to them to try to argue and tell them that they didn’t know what they were talking about.

Marshall responded by suggesting to this man (his name is never mentioned) that he should do some research and figure out if Joseph Smith was really telling the truth about the Book of Abraham papyrus and the Book of Mormon.

Later, this man did do the research Marshall suggested and he realized Mormonism is wrong.  So he joined Freemasonry, thinking that was the way to go. But when he ran into Marshall again on the streets of Utah, he was able to show him why Freemasonry was wrong as it tries to get people into Heaven without Jesus!  That second meeting with Marshall happened several years after his initial meeting with Marshall and Christy on the streets of Utah, but God used Marshall again, this time to lead him to Christ!

This is a great story to remind us that often what we do on the streets when we are sharing our faith is to plant seeds. Although Marshall got to see the fruit of those seeds, we don't always see them because salvation is all of God and He is the one who determines what happens to those seeds we share in people's lives.  But when we do get to see the results of those seeds, it's just awesome!  This video is less than ten minutes long so you may want to take a few minutes and watch it as it will encourage your faith:

Joseph Smith, the prophet and founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, inspired a new version of Christianity, he called the "restored gospel," but is it really restored?  If so, to what?

Mormon Gospel - A Restoration or Reinvention?

Joseph Smith taught that the Gospel of Jesus Christ as given in the Bible was lost needing restoration.  By claiming that the gospel in the Bible is incomplete, he was able to add a number of new practices, such as priesthood ordination and temple marriage that were not practiced by Jesus nor his disciples. It is in fact, these activities and the Mormon claims surrounding them that make the Mormon version of the gospel counterfeit.