Short answer: I certainly don't know, and I doubt anyone does!

Mormonism teaches that one must accept Christ in order to be saved (or, as we say, "exalted", a nearly synonymous term). However, Mormonism also teaches that missionary efforts extend to the hereafter, and hence it is nearly impossible to say whether a certain person will be saved or not.

I find that reassuring, since for starters, there a billions of people who have lived and died, without ever learning of Jesus Christ. Also, among the Christian religions, there are many different views of God and Christ. My concept of God is very different than a born-again Christian, and both of our concepts are probably very different than for example a Catholic. Plus, all of our views of God and Christ are likely *extremely* foreign to a Christian who lived a thousand years ago. Some Christian religions say, "We’re saved, but not you, because our view of God and Christ is the correct one". I think that is very dangerous spiritual territory. When one starts drawing lines and saying "the Catholic's OK, he's probably saved because his concept of God is not *too* wacky, but that Mormon, boy he surely can't be saved because his concept is far off base", or things like that, then I believe *that* person is crossing the line over Christ's "judge not that ye be not judged" counsel.

Basically, my feeling is that the God is very difficult for our mortal minds to comprehend. For that reason, although I may disagree with someone else's view, I cannot condemn him for that view and claim he will not be saved, as long as his concept of God leads him to do good things.

Some people (even some Mormons) may disagree with my "moralistic view", as it might be called, but I think scriptures such as 1 Sam 16:7: "the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart" mean that we have very little clue how the Lord will judge other people.

Similarly, it also says in the Bible, "...I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion." This tells me that I just can't know to whom the Lord will have mercy, and one cannot be confident in saying that He will not have mercy upon any groups of people (including those who did not hear of Him in this mortal life.)

Incidentally, and this is not totally on the topic of this question, the doctrine of the gospel being preached to deceased individuals seems to be mentioned in the Bible.

For example, in 1 Peter 3:18-20 it says:

"For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water."

It seems quite clear to me from this passage, that Christ himself went and preached unto deceased people who had not received the gospel message in this life.