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Tuesday, May 11, 2021

BREAKING TEMPLE NEWS: 8 Temples in North America and Europe to Offer Proxy Work; 5 Latin American Temples to Unpause Operations

Hello again, everyone! As I noted yesterday, temple reopening announcements will now be made on Tuesday, although they will continue to go into effect on Monday as specified in their announcements, unless otherwise noted. The Newsroom and the Church News have announced changes affecting a total of 13 temples this week in Latin America, North America and Europe, with those changes confimed by the status tracker

First, the Helsinki Finland Temple will offer all proxy ordinances, effective Monday May 24. Meanwhile, the temples in Idaho Falls and Rexburg Idaho, Anchorage Alaska, Chicago Illinois, Montreal Quebec, and Regina Saskatchewan will move to phase 2-B, offering all living ordinances in addition to proxy baptisms. Meanwhile, the temples in Columbus Ohio and Washington D.C. are being given phase 2-B status as well, which will allow patrons in those districts to schedule proxy baptisms at the nearest open temples.

And 5 more temples in Latin America (Concepcion and Santiago Chile, Porto Alegre Brazil, Quetzeltenango Guatemala, and Trujillo Peru) were confirmed to have resumed all phase 2 operations following their recent respective pauses. 

As previously announced last week, the Kansas City Missouri and London and Preston England As of May 17, the Church's temple reopenings will stand as follows: 8 closed for major renovations; 1 (Kyiv Ukraine) which has still not opened in any phase since all temples were closed last year; 4 temples "paused" in their reopenings (1 in phase 1,  1 in phase 2, and 2 in phase 3); 4 in phase 1; 49 in phase 2; 75 in phase 2-B; and 27 in phase 3. Further information on these updates can be found in the links I shared at the beginning of this post.

I continue to monitor all Church news updates and temple developments, and will bring you all word of those as I become aware thereof. 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.

9 comments:

  1. Hello again, everyone! The Church News has provided the following additional reports, which speak for themselves:https://www.thechurchnews.com/leaders-and-ministry/2021-05-11/video-president-nelson-kimball-prophesy-about-women-213048

    https://www.thechurchnews.com/living-faith/2021-05-11/ensign-college-brother-ashton-desires-devotional-education-213118

    https://www.thechurchnews.com/global/2021-05-11/gathering-places-ysa-pilot-test-213023

    https://www.thechurchnews.com/podcast/2021-05-11/episode-30-podcast-elder-craig-c-christensen-utah-area-during-covid-19-pandemic-213089

    If there are any temple updates to pass along, I will be sure to detail those later today. For now, my thanks once again to you all.

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  2. Hello again, everyone! The Church News has shared the following additional reports today:

    https://www.thechurchnews.com/history-revisited/2021-05-12/revelations-in-context-doctrine-and-covenants-come-follow-me-212499

    https://www.thechurchnews.com/callings/2021-05-12/brazil-mtc-missionary-training-center-beck-president-companion-212805

    My thanks once again to you all.

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    1. Temple updates have been noted for the Saratoga Springs Utah, Lima Peru Los Olivos, Bentonville Arkansas, Auckland and Hamilton New Zealand, Deseret Peak Utah, and Tallahassee Florida Temples:

      https://churchofjesuschristtemples.org/saratoga-springs-utah-temple/

      https://churchofjesuschristtemples.org/lima-peru-los-olivos-temple/

      https://churchofjesuschristtemples.org/bentonville-arkansas-temple/

      https://churchofjesuschristtemples.org/auckland-new-zealand-temple/

      https://churchofjesuschristtemples.org/hamilton-new-zealand-temple/

      https://churchofjesuschristtemples.org/deseret-peak-utah-temple/

      https://churchofjesuschristtemples.org/tallahassee-florida-temple/

      My thanks once again to you all.

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    2. And the Church News has provided the following additional report:

      https://www.thechurchnews.com/living-faith/2021-05-12/houston-church-refugees-latter-day-saints-texas-catholic-charities-213215

      My thanks once again to you all.

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    3. Here is a new report from the Newsroom:

      https://news-middleeast.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/church-sends-eid-al-fitr-greetings-to-muslims-around-the-world

      My thanks once again to you all.

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  3. Today, the Church News has provided the following additional reports:

    https://www.thechurchnews.com/living-faith/2021-05-13/video-primary-children-feel-saviors-love-213271

    https://www.thechurchnews.com/leaders-and-ministry/2021-05-13/church-area-utah-area-blesses-benefits-global-church-213172

    My thanks once again to you all.

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    1. The Church News has provided two additional reports:

      https://www.thechurchnews.com/global/2021-05-13/eid-al-fitr-greetings-middle-east-africa-north-area-presidency-offers-eid-al-fitr-greetings-ramadan-213318

      https://www.thechurchnews.com/living-faith/2021-05-13/united-nations-committee-status-of-women-sister-mcconkie-213050

      And a new update has been reported on the status of the San Pedro Sula Honduras Temple:

      https://churchofjesuschristtemples.org/san-pedro-sula-honduras-temple/

      My thanks once again to you all.

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  4. The Church News has provided the following additional report:

    https://www.thechurchnews.com/leaders-and-ministry/2021-05-14/young-men-general-presidency-guidance-busy-bishoprics-213080

    My thanks once again to you all.

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    1. And a new update has been provided on the status of the Red Cliffs Utah Temple:

      https://churchofjesuschristtemples.org/red-cliffs-utah-temple/

      I'd just like to also note that the groundbreaking for the Deseret Peak Utah Temple is set to be held tomorrow. Unless I am mistaken, we could likely have a report on that within the next 26-30 hours. I will be particularly interested to see whether the Church is still planning to use an accelerated process for the construction of that temple. If so, we could see that process wrap up sometime in early-to-mid 2023, if all goes well. More to come on that tomorrow. In the meantime, my thanks once again to you all.

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