Did you mean to ask, "How long does it take a person to convert?" If so, then the answer is that it depends on the person. The missionary discussions are designed with the idea of getting the potential convert baptized in about 2 weeks from the time of the first discussion. That's the ideal situation. Many people take longer before they are ready to commit to the Church. Sometimes it can take years. For Brigham Young (the second president of the Church) it took two years to become converted. Others may take even longer. So, it is really imposible to give a specific answer to this question because it really is going to vary from person to person. The important thing is for the member friends to be patient and to show through words and deeds that they will accept and love the investigator whether they join or not. Well, things may have changed since my mission. When I was a missionary, it was supposed to be a two-week process. Personally, I never had anyone that moved through it that fast, but that was the goal.

I think a better question might be, "How long until a person feels that the Church is right and true?" That may only take a short period of time, or it may take a long time, depending on your willingness to accept. Your acceptance and change of heart is the true conversion, not just becoming a member and joining the Church.

Well, my 18 year old son was in attending Catholic for a few weeks shy of a year and appearing to have every intent to be baptized in the Catholic on Easter of 2007. When all of a sudden and out of the blue he was Baptized a Mormon. So either he was working both angle at the same time (which I don' believe he had the time) or was hypnotically brainwashed. His conversion appeared to happen overnight and the Mormons appeared to get him in their cult as soon as possible so he could start paying his 10% , having babies, and converting as many family members and friends as he can. It has made him a fanatical judgmental little monster who can not listen anymore but has is able through wrote-memorization and brainwashing to spout out vesus of the B of K. He is unable to question church doctrines because Mormons teach that it tis evil to intellectually question LDS teachings. Anyhow, from my first hand experience with my Son's conversion process, the Mormons will bring you into their fold, tell you how to lead your life and collect your monthly 10% payment pretty darn quick.

Recent convert here, it took me about 6 months.

As you probably know, it's personal. On my mission, I met a man who had received the discussions countless times over the course of 2 years but refused baptism. While I was serving in his branch, he saw an eight year old get baptized, and it touched his heart so much he demanded to be baptized right then and there. Due to technicalities (such as the interview), we convinced him to wait three days so we could properly prepare. In another branch, someone asked for baptism the very day they first met us. As far as people who are raised in the Church, I think that's also personal. I grew up in an area where Mormonism was large enough that I didn't get teased much because of my beliefs. I always kinda did what was expected of me, but without a very strong testimony. When it came time to decide whether or not to serve a mission, I came to the conclusion I couldn't teach something I didn't know for myself. Two years away from everything I knew was too great a price to pay just because it was the thing to do. Even searching in earnest, it took several months before I got my answer. When you grow up in an environment where you have to stand up for your beliefs, you either gain a testimony real quick, or you stop going through the motions.

I am a 26 yr old male. Went to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida on my mission. I joined the Church when I was 19. Was raised Catholic/Methodist, so I received a great deal of resistance from family and friends. I took the discussions over the summer between my senior year of high school and freshman year of college, and I genuinely was ready after taking the discussions to get baptized. My parents, thinking this was just a phase, asked me to wait a year and see how I felt after that. I started my first year of college at The University of Arizona, and spent that entire year deeply studying the Church along with other religions (and I will never stop learning about other religions...my testimony grows greatly from this). At the end of my first year of college, I had honored my parents' wishes to wait a year. I told them I was ready to be baptized, they disowned me. I had fantastic missionaries. They didn't jump the gun and try to push me to get baptized when my parents asked me to wait, as they pointed out that I should honor my father and mother. I continued to have great missionaries in Tucson at college. They just kept me close to the Church, met with me a lot and prepared many different lessons. Then, when it was time to get baptized (back in Albuquerque), I had honored my father and mother by waiting the year they requested, but in Matthew the Savior tells us not to love our parents more than Him. I had to find a balance. My parents wanted me to wait a year. I did. They threw a temper tantrum. I had to focus on my progression and couldn't spend all of my life doing monkey tricks for them. Since then, as I said earlier...I went on a mission, was sealed in the Temple, and my family is warming up the Church. My point, each person has different needs and is in different situations. There is no set timetable. However, some basic requirements are (Note: These may differ based on the Mission and Mission President as each culture is different): Must complete the lessons with the missionaries (now called lessons, not discussions; also, there are technically four lessons. However, each person has various concerns and needs, so the missionaries may only need to meet with a person four times, or maybe fifteen times. The main point is that all the content of the four lessons is taught); Must attend Church at least three times in a row (It is really important to be sure that a new convert is going to attend Church and be consistently active); Must be interviewed by the District Leaders (Another set of missionaries) to make sure that all content has been covered and that they agree that the person truly is ready for baptism (Sometimes a person just isn't ready yet and needs to wait...in some cases, there are very serious sins that have been committed that requires a sensitive process to make sure that they have repented of that sin, and if they haven't then the missionaries will walk the investigator through the repentance process. So, if a person goes through all that, then they are prepared for baptism. Again, the time period vastly varies. The fastest I have seen a baptism take place was three and a half weeks. The longest I saw was 35 years. This guy kept meeting with the missionaries for over 35 years, and then finally felt that the Church was true and was baptized.

Why are all of these old Mormonism questions being dragged up again?

It took me 2 and a half months but I must add, I am currently not a member YET. I will be baptized in 2 weeks. Anyway, it depends on how the person feels depending on their beleifs and enviroment which envolves around them of course.