In 2022, Sierra Leone ranked as having the third most LDS Church members per capita in Africa, behind Cape Verde and Liberia.

At various times in the 1990s, missionaries were withdrawn due to the civil war in the country.

[6] In December 2012, Jeffrey R. Holland created the first LDS stake in Sierra Leone in Freetown.

After two of its members died during the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak, the LDS Church required its missionaries to remain in their apartments as a precautionary measure.

[11][12][13] On October 5, 2019, the Freetown Sierra Leone Temple was announced by church president Russell M. Nelson.