New members and less-active members have primary responsibility for their own conversion and progress in the Church. However, Church leaders, home teachers, visiting teachers, ward missionaries, full-time missionaries, teachers of classes, and others should work in unity and faith to assist these members in the process of conversion, helping them to remain steadfast in keeping the commandments and to prepare to receive the ordinances of the temple. Individuals remain converted to the gospel when they acquire a testimony of new truths by a spiritual conversion and make the social transition to new friends and new patterns of life. New members will more likely become and remain converted when they are supported in love before and after baptism by the united efforts of leaders, members, and missionaries.