Many Latter-day Saints have expressed concerns over the loss of members, especially among the young. These are very important concerns, but they can easily cause us to not see other aspects of the Mormon community.
At the moment, I am in a working class, proto-middle class part of El Alto, Bolivia, the fascinating city on the edge of the nation’s de facto capital, La Paz, staying with a Latter-day Saint family, the elder members of which became LDS in the seventies.
