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Tuesday, October 9, 2018

BREAKING NEWS: Transcripts of October 2018 General Conference Talks Now Available Online

Hello again, everyone! I wanted to post briefly to pass along more breaking news of which I just became aware. The transcripts of the talks given during the October 2018 General Conference are now available online for review. We live in a wonderful age indeed where the address given during General Conference every six months are available within roughly 60 hours of when the last session ends. These talks are well worthy of review.

That does it for this post. Any and all comments are, as always, welcome and appreciated. on any post, at any time. Thank you for the privilege of your time. If you enjoyed what you read here and would like to stay informed of newly-added content, please feel free to subscribe. 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.

BREAKING NEWS: President & Sister Nelson Plan to Continue Global Ministry Tour in South America

Hello again, everyone! The Newsroom on the Church's website has announced that Church President Russell M. Nelson and his wife, Sister Wendy W. Nelson will continue their global ministry tour by traveling through several locations in South America later this month. Accompanied by Elder Gary E. Stevenson and his wife, Lesa, they will visit five countries in nine days.

This will give them opportunities to meet with missionaries, Church members, and governmental leaders. The tour, set to run from October 19-28, will include stops in the cities of Lima Peru on Sunday October 21, La Paz Bolivia the following day, and Asuncion Paraguay the day after that.

After a three-day hiatus, they will then go to Montevideo Uruguay on Thursday October 25, and will end the tour in Concepcion Chile on Saturday and Sunday October 27 & 28, which will coincide with the dedication of the temple that same weekend.

Thus we see that President Nelson continues to stop at home just long enough to rest, take care of important Church business, pick up a new apostolic companion

The Newsroom also promised to carry ongoing coverage of this leg of the Nelsons' Global Ministry Tour as it occurs, and I will do the same. In the meantime, the Newsroom website provided a look at previous visits which President Nelson and Elder Stevenson have individually made to the same locations, and which Church Presidents have visited these same cities and when.

This will be a development to keep an eye on for sure. Could the time spent in Lima Peru involve breaking ground for the Lima Peru Los Olivos Temple? Possibly, but that seems unlikely. Could the time in Asuncion Paraguay involve seeing what (if anything) can be done to expedite the process of getting the renovation process finally started on that temple? That's a definite maybe as well. More will be reported in the coming days on this trip, and it will be interesting to see what happens during this leg of that tour.

That does it for this post. Any and all comments are, as always, welcome and appreciated, on any post at any time. Thank you for the privilege of your time. If you enjoyed what you read here and would like to stay informed of newly-added content, please feel free to subscribe. 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.