Hello again, everyone! As the final minutes of 2020 draw closer to their inevitable conclusion, I am pleased to be able to provide you all now with a review of temple construction progress that occurred throghout 2020. Over the course of five reports that have been edited as progress has been noted, I have tracked the many wonderful upddates that have been provided through the Newsroom, the Church News, and via the Church Temples website throughout the year. Perhaps the most impressive thing reflected in these reports has been the fact that, even in the midst of a global pandemic that resulted in all operating temples being closed for a period of roughly two months, temple construction has progressed unabated.
As a particular result of this year's events, there are now more temples under construction than there are announced (not yet under construction). That number now includes multiple temples under construction in Utah alone, in taddition to multiple others throughout the United States, in the Philippines, and in Latin America, for what I believe is the first time each of those regions have had multiple temples in the queue at the same time in the history of the Church. The developments largely speak for themselves. So here's a look at where temple construction stood as 2020 began, at the end of the first quarter, halfway through the year, just prior to the October 2020 General Conference, and where things stand at this year-ending hour.
I have gradually restructured various portions of the report, and the content in the latest one is almost certain to change as we move into 2021. As I hope is evident by these reports and the information compiled therein, the temple construction program of the Church is one of many that has seen the promise of President Nelson come to fruition. Part of the way the work is moving forward at an accelerated pace is in the temple construction milestones we have seen since President Nelson's statement on that was made last year.
To reiterate something I have previously noted, as many as 12 temples could have groundbreakings in the first part of 2021, with at least 6 of those almost certain to occur prior to the April 2021 General Conference, if all goes well. So I'm certain that we have just scratched the surface on what is to come in terms of temple construction. With that in mind, whatever occurs in that respect in the coming year, you can count on my tracking those developmnts and passing those along here as I becine aware of it.
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