Senator Romney is a practicing Mormon

This is one of the interesting facts about Mitt Romney that many people may not know. Romney and his family are Mormons or members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Romney, an LDS Church member of the fifth generation, left his studies at Stanford in the 1960s to devote thirty months to a Mormon mission effort in France. After suffering catastrophic injuries in an automobile accident, Romney went back home. In 1969, he wed Ann Davies, his high school sweetheart; together, they had five sons and twenty-four grandkids. The same as his father, grandpa, and great-grandfather before him, all of his sons went on to become missionaries. He continued to be involved in the church, subsequently serving as a stake president and a bishop.

His conversion rate wasn't particularly exceptional, and he later calculated that he only succeeded in winning over ten to twenty people over the course of his involvement with the project. But he did develop a well-deserved reputation for perseverance, winning praise for both the number of houses he visited and the number of houses that asked him back. He was elevated to co-president of the mission by June 1968.