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Sunday, August 30, 2020
UPDATED: Current Apostolic Statistics
Hello again, everyone! Recently on this blog, it has become traditional for me to publish updated apostolic statistics relating to both the age and tenures of our current apostles roughly every 7 weeks. Since I last did so on Sunday July 12, it is now time to do so again today. Those updates, as has also been customary, will be featured in two parts: the first and the second. The information speaks for itself. I continue to monitor all Church news and temple updates and will be sure to pass word of those developments along to you all as I become aware of any such reports.
I have had a lifelong love for Church history, which has extended to ongoing reports of the ministry of our apostles and prophets, General Conference, and all temple developments. This blog enables me to share that love with all who read my thoughts on these developments, which are sometimes reported multiple times per day as needed.
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Hello again, everyone! On this Sabbath day, the Church News has shared the following updates:
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https://www.thechurchnews.com/global/2020-08-30/byu-pathway-worldwide-growth-enrollment-returned-missionaries-valuable-education-191472
My thanks once again to you all.
And a new update has been provided on the Belem Brazil Temple:
ReplyDeletehttps://churchofjesuschristtemples.org/belem-brazil-temple/
https://churchofjesuschristtemples.org/belem-brazil-temple/news/
My thanks once again to you all.
Hello again, everyone! Although this is no longer breaking news, the Church today announced more temple reopenings that will go into effect next Monday (September 7). With the latest reopenings announced today, the Church will have more temples worldwide operating under a phase 2 reopening than will be open for phase 1.
ReplyDeleteTwo temples will reopen under phase 1 next week, namely: Hermosillo Sonora Mexico and Port-au-Prince Haiti. The Church had previously announced the phase 1 reopenings for three temples in Mexico: Ciudad Juarez, Colonia Juarez Chihuahua, and Mexico City Temples, effective August 24. Subsequently, the Church determined to again close the three temples. With today's announcement, the first two Mexican temples I mentioned have now reopened under phase 1.
And the 12 additional temples transitioning from phase 1 to phase 2 next Monday include the following: 5 in Arizona (Gilbert, Phoenix Snowflake, The Gila Valley, and Tucson); 1 in Utah (Manti); 3 elsewhere in the United States (Indianapolis Indiana, Kansas City Missouri, and St. Paul Minnesota); 2 in the Pacific (Suva Fiji and Sydney Australia); and 1 in England (Preston).
By way of reminder, Phase 1 allows living husband-and-wife sealings, with phase 2 allowing all ordinances for the living, with priority being given first to previously-endowed couples, then to missionaries already out in the field, then to those preparing to enter the mission field or who are preparing to be married who have not previously been endowed.
As has been the case every week, the Church News and Newsroom each provided distinct information with a different focus on the elements relating to this announcement. You can read those articles through the following web address:
https://www.thechurchnews.com/temples/2020-08-31/lds-temples-open-worldwide-phased-reopening-183918
https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/first-presidency-limited-reopening-temples
More COVID-19 updates and additional Church news and temple updates will follow shortly.
Here are some additional COVID-19 updates:
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https://www.deseretindustries.org/reopen
And in the midst of the process of temples reopening worldwide, Church News editor Sister Sarah Jane Weaver takes a look at how her perspective on temple worship has changed and been corrected over time:
https://www.thechurchnews.com/living-faith/2020-08-31/manaus-brazil-rio-negro-rio-solimoes-sacrifice-191742
If there are any additional temple updates to share (aside from the reopenings), those will be detailed shortly. For now, my thanks once again to you all.
And yet another update has been provided today on the status of the Layton Utah Temple:
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Thanks again, everyone!
Hello again, everyone! The Church News and Newsroom have shared the following additional updates:
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https://www.thechurchnews.com/members/2020-09-01/rootstech-2021-virtual-conference-free-online-familysearch-191807
https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/rootstech-goes-virtual-2021
And the latest edition of "Latter-day Saints Around the World has been published, featuring articles from Bolivia, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Japan, Singapore, Tahiti, and the United States:
https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/latter-day-saints-around-the-world--country-newsroom-websites--august-31--2020
Also, another update shows progress on the Lima Peru Los Olivia Temple:
https://churchofjesuschristtemples.org/lima-peru-los-olivos-temple/
My thanks once again to you all.
The Church News has shared an additional report:
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My thanks once again to you all.