Hello. I wanted to report on the three Church events that happened today. The groundbreakings were held as scheduled in Rio de Janeiro Brazil and Arequipa Peru. Interestingly enough, though we only had an announced time for one of these temples, both took place @ 10:00 am local time. (That means that the Brazil groundbreaking took place @ 6:00 AM MST, and the Peru groundbreaking was at 8:00 AM MST.) As expected, those announced as presiding did so (Elder Claudio R. M. Costa in Brazil and Elder Carlos A. Godoy in Peru). Here's the odd thing. From what I have read about those groundbreakings, it seems that these two were the first in quite a while where a representative from the Temple Department was not in attendance. In a way, I can appreciate that. It means that these area leaders are being trusted to get things started without having that official representation from Church headquarters. Click here to read the Church's official news release about the groundbreakings, including who was in attendance.
That said, I have found out that construction is expected to begin in earnest for both temples sometime next week, a status update I honestly did not see coming, as I had been advised that the construction in Rio could be delayed initially. It is therefore not unreasonable to believe that both temples might be completed sometime around mid-to-late 2019. I will do a second post shortly with my updated temple construction progress report.
In the meantime, I wanted to report on the other major Church news event that happened today. A Face-to-Face event was held for the youth this morning. It was the first ever Face-to-Face event to feature a member of the First Presidency. President Henry B. Eyring, First Counselor in the First Presidency, was joined by Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, who is senior to him in terms of the apostleship, but junior to him currently because of President Eyring serving in the top governing body of the Church. There has not as yet been a report of that event on any Church news outlet I usually check. However, my favorite local news station, KSL, which is entirely or partially owned and operated by the Church, always reports on Church news and events such as this. They sent religion specialist Sam Penrod (who has worked and may still be working with my former bishop and good friend Steve Landeen, a KSL photographer) to report on the event. Though that report is not yet available on the website, I will keep an eye out for it, as well as for coverage on the event form the Church websites I usually follow, and post links to those as I can this weekend.
Thanks for your readership and support. Any comments are welcome and appreciated.
Update several hours later: I have found the KSL news story of which I spoke. Click here to read that. Additionally, this link contains a news article on the event from the Church News, this one is from the Church News and Events section of LDS.org, and this one is from Mormon Newsroom. Hope this is helpful to you. Thanks.
Saturday, March 4, 2017
Report on Church Events That Took Place Today
I have had a lifelong love for Church history, which has extended to ongoing reports of the ministry of our apostles and prophets, General Conference, and all temple developments. This blog enables me to share that love with all who read my thoughts on these developments, which are sometimes reported multiple times per day as needed.
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