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Total Church Membership: 1,179. Congregations: 6. | |||
Scattered Church families from the United States lived in Lesotho during the 1980s. In July 1988, at a meeting attended by 15 people, the Maseru Branch (a small congregation) was organized at the home of expatriates. The Church was registered in July 1989 and the first missionaries entered in September. As the branch grew, facilities were rented in a local school. Later a home was purchased to be remodeled into a church building. | |||
A seminary program for young people aged 14-18 functioned in the country as early as 1991. The first full-time young missionary from Lesotho began serving in the Durban mission in 1993. | |||
<ref> The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Facts and Statistics: Lesotho, https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/facts-and-statistics/country/Lesotho, accessed 6 March 2020.</ref> | <ref> The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Facts and Statistics: Lesotho, https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/facts-and-statistics/country/Lesotho, accessed 6 March 2020.</ref> | ||