What constitutes a convert?
Brazil mystery: Case of the missing Mormons (913,045 of them, to be exact) | Following Faith | The Salt Lake Tribune
►http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/blogsfaithblog/54497395-180/church-census-reported-lds.html.csp
The Brazilian government believes there are far fewer Mormons in the country than the LDS Church does.
The 2010 Brazilian census found that 225,695 people identified as Latter-day Saints whereas the LDS Church reported 1,138,740 members in Brazil in 2010.
For more detail on how LDS missionaries have inflated conversion stats, see this video by Brigham Young U. Prof. Ted Lyon, “Tough Lessons from Mormon Missionary work in Latin America”: ►http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzCcCacfnfU