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Friday, December 15, 2017

Temple Site Possibilities: North America Southwest Area, Part One--Area Overview and List of Current Temples

Hello again, everyone! With Church and temple news having slowed down in recent days, I am back to talk about the current and potential future temples within the next North American area of the Church, which alphabetically is the North America Southwest Area.

This area includes the entirety of the following five states: Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. In addition, this area of the Church also covers the northwest quarter of Arkansas, the southwest portion of Colorado, and the southwestern third of Missouri, along with small portions of California, Kansas,  Louisiana, and Utah. Because it is an area of the Church that has 15 temples operating (just under 10% of all the operating temples), I have determined it would be best to approach the discussion of the present and potential future temples in a unique way. I will explain that more after I provide a list of those temples falling within the boundaries the Church has established for this area.

Those 15 are grouped by the number of temples in each of these states, then alphabetically as follows:  6 in Arizona (The Gila Valley, Gilbert, Mesa, Phoenix, Snowflake and Tucson Arizona Temples);  4 others in Texas (the Dallas, Houston, Lubbock, and San Antonio Texas Temples); 2 in Nevada (the Las Vegas and Reno Nevada Temples); the Albuquerque New Mexico Temple; the Monticello Utah Temple; and the Oklahoma City Oklahoma Temple.

That is a lot of temples to get through, so the unique approach I have chosen to take for this area is to do specific and distinct posts for the temples within each state (for Arizona and Texas), yet another one covering the two in Nevada, and the ones in Albuquerque, Monticello and Oklahoma City, and then round out the posts about this area by sharing those possibilities I see for the near future. So this post served to introduce what I will cover, and there will be four others coming before the end of the day today.

That does it for this post. While I don't anticipate any comments being made about this post, if any of you have any general thoughts about the approach I am taking, I would welcome and appreciate hearing from you. Thank you for the privilege of your time. Until my next post, I wish each one of you all the best and pray that the Lord will bless you all in everything you do.

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