Only if they said Yes when asked if they want to become a mormon. ..
However it never has been explained how a live mormon mishie goes down i nto Hell or up into Heaven and “preaches the mormoin “gospel” to them, and then gets to come back to report the new converts...
I guess it was just one more thing Joey Smith didnt think that far ahead about..
for a “smart” 14 year old, that Joey Smith sure was ignorant..
Confusing ritual...so what does the surrogate get out of this practice? He’s supposedly has preached to the departed the Mormon Gospel? But that is impossible...they have gone to be with the Lord or are suffering elsewhere...there is a gap between our world and theirs’ which neither side can cross.