Hello again, everyone! This morning, the latest temple reopening updates were released through the Newsroom, with those same updates noted in the Church News and reflected as well in the temple reopening status tracker, with each of those showing the changes that will go into effect during the first couple of weeks in July.
The Church has annrounced today that 17 more temple transitioned to phase 3 this week include 6 in Arizona (The Gila Valley, Gilbert, Mesa, Phoenix, Snowflake, and Tucson), 4 more in Utah (Draper, Jordan River, Oquirrh Mountain, and Salt Lake) and the following 7 elsewhere:Birmingham Alabama, Houston Texas, Montreal Quebec, Nauvoo Illinois, Panama City Panama, Star Valley Wyoming, and Tegucigalpa Honduras).
For the Mesa Arizona and Salt Lake Temples, still closed for renovation, their phase 3 designation will allow those rresiding in the two temple districts to schedule phase 3 proxy work at the next closest temple to them. Today's announcement means that all but 2 of the Church's 60 temples which were originally anticipated to open by the end of July. The remaining two are Los Angeles California and Port-au-Prince Haiti, which join the 36 temples announced last week for which reopenings are also planned by the end of July.
Today's announcement also indicated that the Manila Philippines and Stockholm Sweden Temples would move to phase 2-B, allowing all living ordinances and limited proxy baptisms by appointment. Both temples will shift to that phase on July 12. And the Church's plan to reopen The Hague Netherlands, Mexico City Mexico, and Vancouver British Columbia Temples in phase 2-B and the Kyiv Ukraine Temple in phase 1 next Monday remans intact.<
Additionally, the Durban and Johannesburg South Africa Temples have paused in their rheir reopenings due to local COVID-19 (both temples had recently transitioned to phase 3). As a result of changes announced today, next Monday (July 5), the Church's breakdown of temples by reopening status will stand as follows: 8 temples remain closed for renovations (4 of those 8 temple districts have been given phase 3 status, with 2 others in phase 2-B); 10 temples are currently paused in their reopening, of which 5 had been in phase 3, 2 had been in phase 2-B, and the final 3 had been in phase 2.
With 3 temples operating in phase 1, 13 in phase 2, and 50 in phase 2-B, the remaining 84 temples are all in phase 3. I am grateful to have learned about this updates and to have been able to pass them along to you all here. I continue to monitor all Church news and teple updates and will be sure to pass word of all such developents along to you all here as I becoe aware threof.
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Hello again, everyone! The Church News has shared some additional reports today. First up is the new audio edition of the latest Church News podcast. In this week's episode, Church News editor sister Sarah Jane Weaver, speaks with her invited guest, Sister Reyna I. Aburto, Second Counselor in the Relief Society General Presidency, to find out why the subject of mental health is something she's been inspired to address in each of her three General Conference addresses:
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It's worth noting that, for the first time that I can recall, the transcript of that podcast was not simultaneously released when the audio verision was made available. The article does indicate that the transcript of the podcast will be added to that coverage soon.
Another new article highlights MyKayla Skinner, a Latter-day Saint young adult currently enrolled at the University of Utah, who has qualified to compete with the US Gymnastics team at the rescheduled 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo Japan:
https://www.thechurchnews.com/members/2021-06-29/mykayla-skinner-gymnastics-olympics-tokyo-utah-temple-218080
In an address given today to Ensign College students, BYU Athletic DIrector Brother Tom Holmoe shared his thoughts and testimony on why the world has always needed prophets, and what we can learn from the prophet, his teachings, and his actions in this period of time:
https://www.thechurchnews.com/living-faith/2021-06-29/tom-holmoe-ensign-college-devotional-living-prophet-218164
And thus far, two new reports from the Mission Leadership Seminar have been provided. The first highlights counsel given by President M. Russell Ballard, Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles:
https://www.thechurchnews.com/leaders-and-ministry/2021-06-29/president-russell-ballard-mission-leaders-seminar-preach-my-gospel-218121
As expected, nothing in the coverage of President Ballard's remarks mentioned that he, as the senior member of that Quorum, is succeeding Elder Uchtdorf as Chair of the Missionary Executive Council. So it seems more likely than not that the only senior member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles left, Elder Quentin L. Cook, is succeeding Elder Uchtdorf as Chair of the Missionary Executive Council. And until the Church notes anything different, I'm also going to assume that Elders Ronald A. Rasband, Gerrit W. Gong, and Ulisses Soares are the other three members of Quorum of the Twelve Apostles who now serve on the Missionary Executive Council.
The second article covers counsel given by President Henry B. Eyring, Second Counselor in the First Presidency:
https://www.thechurchnews.com/leaders-and-ministry/2021-06-29/president-eyring-mission-leadership-seminar-missionaries-218195
My thanks once again to you all.
This morning, the First Presidency has announced revised guidelines regarding the parameters within which local Church leaders can officiate over civil marriages:
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My thanks once again to you all.
More than 24 hours following the release of the audio feed for the weekly Church News podcast, the transcript thereof has now been made available:
Deletehttps://www.thechurchnews.com/podcast/2021-06-29/episode-37-podcast-sister-aburto-mental-emotional-health-savior-218018
And two other new reports, which speak for themselves, were also highlighted:
https://www.thechurchnews.com/living-faith/2021-06-30/remains-pearl-harbor-sailor-identified-buried-uss-oklahoma-idaho-218050
https://www.thechurchnews.com/living-faith/2021-06-30/piping-up-tabernacle-organists-celebrate-1st-anniversary-online-series-218247
My thanks once again to you all.
Hello again, everyone! The Church News has shared the following additional reports:
Deletehttps://www.thechurchnews.com/leaders-and-ministry/2021-06-30/video-notre-dame-religious-liberty-summit-elder-cook-218268
https://www.thechurchnews.com/temples/2021-06-30/june-temple-dedication-anniversaries-peru-payson-atlanta-australia-brazil-fiji-japan-germany-217884
My thanks once again to you all.
Updates have been provided on the construction status of th Yigo Guam, Helena Montana, Moses Lake Washington, and Auckland New Zealand Temples:
Deletehttps://churchofjesuschristtemples.org/yigo-guam-temple/
https://churchofjesuschristtemples.org/helena-montana-temple/
https://churchofjesuschristtemples.org/moses-lake-washington-temple/
https://churchofjesuschristtemples.org/auckland-new-zealand-temple/
Regarding the update on the Helena Montana Temple, the newest development is an adjustment to its' completion estimate (from mid-2022 to late 2022-early 2023) and a change in that temple's place on the construction queue (after its' groundbreaking ceremony was held on Saturday, it was initially listed between the Belem Brazil and Saratoga Springs Utah Temples, but its' estimate now puts it between the Feather River California and Lima Peru Los Olivos Temples.
These latest updates will be featured in my temple construction progress review for the second quarter of this year, which will be published on this blog roughly 2.5 hours or so from now. My thanks once again to you all.