Hello again, everyone! Less than 24 hours after providing a report on the groundbreaking arrangements for the Puebla Mexico Temple, there has been more breaking temple news. Earlier today, the First Presidency announced the location for the Tooele Valley Utah Temple. It will be built in the city of Erda, northwest of the intersection of Erda Way and Highway 36 in that city. The 3-story 70,000 square foot edifice will see an adjacent meetinghouse built with it, which will be about 20,000 square feet. It has also been noted that the detailed designs for the temple are still in development, and that project leaders are working with city officals on those preliminary plans, with the necessary documents to be filed in the coming months in order to enable construction to begin soon.
So I have a few thoughts on this announcement. First, with this temple just barely having been announced 5 months ago during the April General Conference, the city government must have fast-tracked approval for the details for the temple, even if the specific designs are yet-to-be approved. Second, today's announcement is in line with the statement made by Elder Larry Y. Wilson, who had been serving as the Executive Director of the Temple Department at the time that he noted earlier this year that the Church was hoping to begin and complete construction on the Tooele Valley Utah Temple before the Salt Lake Temple reopens from its' renovation process in 2024.
Third, depending on how fast the Church can gain approval on the specific plans, this temple could very well be another that has a groundbreaking within less than a year of its' announcement (so we can probably look for that to happen in early-to-mid 2020, if all goes well). Fourth, it is significant that, at a time when information about the newest Utah temples has been released in basically the same chronological order in which they were announced, we have word on this Tooele Valley Utah Temple before anything has happened in that respect for the temple which will be built in Washington County Utah, which was announced last October.
And finally, this means that, less than 16 hours after I posted updated thoughts about the timing within which future temple groundbreakings could be anticipated to occur, there will need to be some degree of revisiting those thoughts yet again. In light of that, I will at some point have to post revised thoughts yet again in that respect. Rather than devoting a new blog post to those changes right after I make them, I will defer detailing those newest updates until I share my third-quarter 2019 comparative and contrastive look at temple construction progress which will have been made between July 1 and September 30. The specific timing of that set of posts will be determined closer to the time.
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Wednesday, September 25, 2019
BREAKING TEMPLE NEWS: Tooele Valley Utah Temple to Be Built in Erda
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Hello again, everyone! After another difficult day in terms of my health, I wanted to provide a look at some additional Church news stories which have been reported. They speak for themselves and can be found at the following web addresses:
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https://www.thechurchnews.com/living-faith/2019-09-24/idaho-state-university-lds-business-college-devotional-161504
https://www.thechurchnews.com/leaders-and-ministry/2019-09-25/find-joy-elder-budge-byu-hawaii-161474
https://www.thechurchnews.com/living-faith/2019-09-25/byu-idaho-president-henry-j-eyring-devotional-161502
My thanks once again to you all for your continued interest and ongoing support.
Temple news keeps coming! This time it is location and rendering for Feather River California Temple!
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Eric, thank you for posting that here. I have had another rough day so far, so it has just been within the last half-hour or so that I discovered the news, by which time I had not yet had a chance to check the comments on my blog. I have devoted a new post to this development, which included some thoughts about what is coming for the temple construction program of the Church, and which I published here just a few moments ago. I will have more particular observations on the temple construction program of the Church, and on my revised observations about the nature and substance of the "other announcements" to which President Nelson alluded while in Brazil, which I hope to post before the end of this weekend. In the meantime, thank you again for taking time to comment. Exciting times are indeed ahead. Always a pleasure to hear from you, Eric.
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