Hello again, everyone! Around an hour ago, the Church's official Newsroom announced that the groundbreaking ceremony for the Saratoga Springs Utah Temple will take place on Saturday October 19, and that Elder Craig C. Christensen, the President of the Church's Utah Area, will preside over that ceremony. Based on the artistic rendering for that temple and its' anticipated size, I am estimating that construction may take between 3-4 years to complete. That said, I am hopeful that the Church is setting things in motion so that at least 1 other temple can have a groundbreaking before General Conference occurs one month from today. Time will tell.
In the meantime, you can depend on my reporting on this groundbreaking as such reports are made available, including specifics on the time for it. That does it for now. Any and all comments are, as always, welcome and appreciated, on any post at any time, as long as such comments are made in accordance with the established guidelines. 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.
Thursday, September 5, 2019
BREAKING TEMPLE NEWS: Groundbreaking Announced for the Saratoga Springs Utah Temple
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I doubt it but would be pleasantly surprised if there were a groundbreaking before this conference. But I don't doubt that future groundbreaking dates will be announced before then.
ReplyDeleteHey, Chris! You are certainly entitled to your own opinion. But as I shared here a few days ago, a construction contact has been issued for the Nairobi Kenya Temple, which will reportedly be a smaller one, so a groundbreaking could easily occur in the next month or less, similarly to what happened with the shorter-notice official announcements for the groundbreakings of the Winnipeg Manitoba Temple in 2016 and the groundbreaking for the Belem Brazil Temple last month.
DeleteAnd as I also noted a few days ago here, concept designs for the Brasilia Brazil Temple have been making the rounds on social media. If those images are verified as official, that temple could likewise have a groundbreaking before General Conference as well.
The only reason that the Saratoga Springs Temple groundbreaking has been scheduled to occur more than a month from now is because city crews are needing to take care of curbing and walkways in the neighborhood where the temple and residential housing are being constructed, so the Church had to coordinate with the city on the scheduling for the groundbreaking around that need. If that had not been a factor, it is likely the groundbreaking for this temple could have occurred last month or this month. Just some food for thought, FWIW. Thanks, Chris!
A groundbreaking for late Sept would have been announced by now imo.
ReplyDeleteHey, Bryan. See my reply to Chris above. Based on the info I shared there, and the precedents of the Winnipeg Manitoba and Belem Brazil Temples in recent years, I think groundbreakings for either or both the Nairobi Kenya and Brasilia Brazil Temples could easily occur within the next month. That said, I have been wrong before, so time will tell either way. Thanks.
DeleteHello again, everyone! I have some additional Church news updates to pass along. First, some updates have been provided on the filming of the Book of Mormon video series the Church has been working on over the course of the last several years:
ReplyDeletehttps://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/season-three-filming-book-of-mormon-videos
https://www.thechurchnews.com/living-faith/2019-09-05/book-of-mormon-video-series-159414
https://www.thechurchnews.com/living-faith/2019-09-05/book-of-mormon-video-series-release-dates-announced-watch-the-trailer-here-159405
And in another unexpected development for the Church, a new temple president and matron have been announced for the Quetzeltenango Guatemala Temple. I say that is unexpected, because the current president has only been serving since 2017:
https://www.thechurchnews.com/callings/2019-09-05/new-temple-president-and-matron-called-to-serve-in-guatemala-159127
The Church News has also provided more coverage on President Nelson's recently-completed Latin American Miniistry Tour. You can find a complete collection of the newest articles and all other coverage thereof at the following web address:
https://www.thechurchnews.com/category/ministry-tour
A couple more articles have also been published:
https://www.thechurchnews.com/members/2019-09-04/book-of-mormon-come-follow-me-2020-159222
https://www.thechurchnews.com/temples/2019-09-03/elder-bednar-port-au-prince-haiti-temple-dedication-159139
https://www.thechurchnews.com/global/2019-09-03/hurricane-dorian-whips-through-the-bahamas-heres-how-its-impacting-missionaries-members-in-the-area-159126
https://www.thechurchnews.com/leaders-and-ministry/2019-09-04/bsa-boy-scouts-elder-ronald-a-rasband-159370
https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/boy-scouts-of-america-honors-the-church
I believe I posted about the death of that mission president who was serving in the Philippines elsewhere on this blog. But for now, I continue to monitor all Church news and temple updates and will do my best to bring word of those to you all here as I become aware of such developments/ In the meantime, my thanks again to you all.