According to the 2014 Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life survey, roughly 1% of Arkansans self-identified most closely with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

This event, along with Woodruff's teachings, led to the baptism of a Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Hubbel, the first converts in Arkansas, on 22 February 1835.

In 1838, Elder Abraham O. Smoot was called to a five-month mission to Arkansas where he preached frequently with varied results.

He had just been acquitted by a court in Van Buren of charges pressed by Hector H. McLean, the former husband of Pratt's wife Eleanor.

[8] A permanent presence of the church was established on May 30, 1890, when the first Latter-day Saint meetinghouse was built in White County.

Benjamin Franklin Baker, an early influential convert, helped establish the Barney Branch (about 5 miles north of Enola) in 1914 with over 100 members.

[10] On July 20–22, 2006, over 1,000 Latter-day Saint teens from all five of the Arkansas Stakes gathered for a three-day multi-stake youth conference.

Elder David A. Bednar of the Quorum of the Twelve and former associate dean of Graduate Studies in the College of Business Administration at the University of Arkansas spoke to the youth and encouraged them to live by high moral standards.

[11] Following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, several thousand Latter-day Saint volunteers, from a seven-state area (including Arkansas), went to Louisiana and Mississippi.

[15] In September 2008, Arkansas Latter-day Saints went to the Baton Rouge area to aid cleanup efforts following Hurricane Gustav.