Hello again, everyone! I almost missed another breaking development. The First Presidency today also announced the creation of four additional Area Seventies Quorums to provide an ease of meeting as a Quorum, and as a result of the expanding presence of the Church in many areas. The distribution and assignment of Area Seventies Quorums will also be changing. The changes will go into effect on June 1, in less than 2 weeks time.As of June 1, the Quorums will break down as follows:
The Third Quorum will consist of those area seventies living in the Africa Central, Africa South, and Africa West Areas. The Fourth Quorum will be comprised of those Area Seventies serving in the Asia and Asia North Areas. The Fifth Quorum will consist of those area seventies living in the Brazil Area. The Sixth Quorum will include those area seventies serving in the Caribbean, Central America, and Mexico Areas. Those in the Seventh Quorum will include all who serve in the Europe, Europe East, and Middle East/Africa North Areas.
Those serving in the Pacific and Philippines Areas will be assigned to the Eighth Quorum.The area seventies living within the South America Northwest and South America South Areas will constitute the Ninth Quorum. The final three Quorums will include those serving in the six North American Areas. Those serving in the North America Central, North America Northeast, and North America Southeast Areas will constitute the Tenth Quorum. Those area seventies in the North America Southwest and North America West Areas will constitute the Eleventh Quorum. And those serving in the boundaries of the Utah Area will now fall under the Twelfth Quorum.
When I originally suggested that new Quorums could be created to break up some of the larger Quorums, I never envisioned anything like this. But taking the approach of dividing the area seventies by goegraphical area will enable the Church to subsequently call as many area seventies as may be needed for each Quorum, which may involve a higher number thereof in each Quorum at some point in the very near future. As a result of this announcement, I have many updates to make to my list of Area Seventies over the next little while. With two major announcements in one day (even coming within 2-3 hours of each other), I hope that means that other major announcements will be coming down the pike in the days ahead, especially relating to temple construction efforts. I will monitor all such news and bring you all word of those developments as I become aware of them.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2020
BREAKING NEWS: First Presidency Announces Changes to Area Seventies Quorums; Creation of Four New Quorums
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Hello again, everyone! The Church News provided the following additional reports:
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https://www.thechurchnews.com/temples/2020-05-19/salt-lake-temple-renovation-angel-moroni-statue-removal-184522
https://www.thechurchnews.com/living-faith/2020-05-19/byu-hawaiis-new-president-keoni-kauwe-native-son-islands-184497
https://www.thechurchnews.com/leaders-and-ministry/2020-05-19/women-priesthood-covenant-president-cordon-power-service-kindness-spiritual-treasures-184179
My thanks once again to you all.
And an update has been reported on the Richmond Virginia Temple:
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Thanks everyone!
Hello again, everyone! Several significant developments have been reported on a few different fronts today.The Newsroom has covered more responses from Church members living in the Middle East as a result of the announcement of a temple for Dubai UAE:
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The temple in Dubai is anticipated to serve, at minimum, those in the following nations: Bahrain, Jordan, Kurdistan-Iraq, Lebanon and Syria, in addition to the United Arab Emirates. The temple may also serve Saints in parts of Europe and Asia who would be closer to the Dubai UAE temple than they are to their currently-assigned temples.
And KSL has provided breaking news coverage of guidance from the Utah Area Presidency relative to Church services resuming in the Utah Area:
https://www.ksl.com/article/46755370/utah-area-presidency-approves-utah-latter-day-saint-wards-to-meet-again
The recommendations are to temporarily suspend the use of sacrament meeting programs and meetinghouse hymnbooks, confine meeting substance to a focus on partaking of the Sacrament and necessary ward and stake business, to only hold Sacrament Meeting for now, to ensure proper social distancing prevails between families, and to focus on measures that may be necessary to particularly protect those in the vulnerable demographic of the population who are more susceptible to the possible contraction of COVID-19.
And new information received today indicates that a building permit has been submitted for the Feather River California Temple, which will have a groundbreaking in less than two months. In addition, less than a month after the location of the Bentonville Arkansas Temple was confirmed, yesterday night, a conditional use permit was approved by the City of Bentonville Planning Commission. I am in the process of reevaluating the information I have on temples for which a groundbreaking may be safely anticipated in the near future, and will have any updates to those estimates published here ASAP after I finish making them. My thanks once again to you all.
Hello again, everyone! The Church News and Newsroom have shared the following additional developments:
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https://www.thechurchnews.com/members/2020-05-20/covid-19-navajo-nation-latter-day-saints-184664
https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/global-sacred-clothing-production-facilities-temporarily-produce-masks-gowns
And new information on the Pocatello Idaho Temple indicates that crews are installing window frames on the temple's second and third floors.
Thanks again, all.
Within the last half hour or so, the Church News has published an article introducing Elder Thierry K. Mutombo, who is the first General Authority Seventy native to the Democratic Republic of the Congo:
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It appears the Church is putting Elder Mutombo right to work. He has been asked to serve starting August 1 as Second Counselor in the newly-created Africa Central Area. He will serve alongside native Kenyan General Authroity Seventy Elder Joseph W. Sitati, who has been called as president of that area. This may mark the first time in a long time that 2 individuals native to a Church area have simultaneously served together in a position of oversight involving their native lands. And it is almost certainly the first time every that two individuals of color served together in an area presidency. I hope my meaning is not mistaken there.
My thanks once again to you all.