Hello again, everyone! President Nelson made history again in the closing moments of General Conference by announcing 7 new temples for the following locations: Managua Nicaragua, Cagayan de Oro Philippines, Layton Utah, Bengaluru India, Salta Argentina, Richmond Virginia, and a yet-to-be named city in Russia. This brings the number of temples in any phase to 189. More information will be provided as I can get hold of it.
In the meantime, I wanted to note that 3 of those 7 locations were exactly noted on my list (Managua, Layton and Richmond), and I had also mentioned that other temples were likely to be announced in the Philippines and Argentina (though I had prioritized Neuquen and Davao above Cagayan de Oro and Salta), and I had mentioned the possibility of future temples in India and Russia, although the timing had not seemed right to me for either in the immediate future. But I am glad that we have these new temples announced.
It is also worth noting that President Nelson had publicly proposed a temple for Managua, and that land has been set aside for one for a while now, so it is fitting that he as Church president has made good on his own apostolic proposal.
That does it for this post. Any and all comments are, as always, welcome and appreciated. 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.
Sunday, April 1, 2018
BREAKING NEWS: 7 New Temples Announced
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It looks like ldschurchtemples site is gone. It automatically redirects me to mormonnewsroom and gives a warning of malicious content
ReplyDeleteI am getting the same response on my end, but without the warning. I have a strong feeling it is not gone for good, but that it was merely taken down for the moment while work is done to add the locations President Nelson announced today. I will check on it periodically myself, and hope you will do the same and let me know if problems persist.
DeleteAs I thought, the site is up again now, with the notice of the seven new temples having been added, so it was probably easier to take it down for a few minutes to do the updates than it was to try and do the updates while people were trying to visit the site. Hope that helps.
DeleteSpoke too soon. It is down again. But the fact that I caught it accessible just a bit ago indicates that the site is being shut down while the updates are being made. Once that process is finished, it will be up again.
DeleteThe site has been intermittently down for the last hour since I posted the comment above. As noted, this appears to be more due to the need to create and update all the relevant pages, for which process it may be easier to make the site inaccessible while it is updated than it would be to keep the site up and make edits while many people are trying to visit it. I have some additional observations about General Conference (and, more specifically, the announced temples and how they might impact the timing and number of temple announcements going forward), which I will share in a new blog post in just a few minutes. Thanks again to you all.
DeleteThe site, along with an updated announcement section featuring links to pages for all seven of the new temples, has been placed back online, and is now again available for your perusal. Hope this helps. Thanks.
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