Hello again, everyone! With only one exception in recent weeks, Tuesday has been the designated day on which the Church has announced the latest temple reopening updates. Those releases have been shared in the Newsroom and through updates in the Church News (including the weekly status tracker). Barring anything unexpected (such as a major temple announcement unrelated to temple reopenings, or another week wherein the Church holds steady and does not announce any updates), the latest such information will be released in the next hour or so from the publication of this post.
This post will be updated with an analysis of that announcement if and when it comes. Note: The following few paragraphs between here and the closing text for the post were added once the Church's official announcement on temple reopenings was made. The Church reported this mornining that the Buenoos Aires Argentina Temple is transitiooning to phase 2 after the recent pause in its' reopening.
Additionally, the Church noted this morning that, in view of its' dedication on Sunday, the Winnipeg Manitoba Temple will open in phase 3 as early as November 12. With the dedication of the Pocatello Idaho Temple set to occur on Sunday November 7, that temple will open in phase 3 as soon as November 16. And the Mesa Arizona Temple, which will be rededicated on Sunday December 12, will begin operating in phase 3 as early as December 21. Right now, the Saints in the Mesa Arizona Temple district have been able to reserve phase 3 appointments at the closest temples to Mesa which are also in phase 3.
Once all temples for which a phase 3 opening has been announced have officially transitioned to that phase, 92.3% of all temples (157 of the 170 total) will be in phsse 3. Additionally, when other temples transition to phase 2-B (which has previously been noted will occur ASAP), the total number of temples allowing proxy work by appointment will rise to 161 of the 170, or 94.2% of all temples.
The Church News also reiterated that the Medford Oregon Temple, originally projected to move into phase 3 at some point in August, remains in phase 2--B for the time being, and that no revised date has been set for that transition. 6 of the Church's temples remain in phases 1 or 2, while no phase designation has been given for the temples in Hong Kong China and Tokyo Japan both of which are currently closed for renovation.
As a result of the latest adjustments, next Tuesday (November 9), the reopening of temples will stand as follows: 9 temples are closed for major renovations (all but 2 of which have been granted pahse 3 designations); 2 temples remain "paused" in their reopenings (both of which had reached phase 3 prior to their pauses); 2 other temples are in phase 1; with 4 each in phases 2 and 2-B; and the remaining 147 operating in phase 3.
I have noted this in the past, but feel a need to reiterate it again: I am grateful for the carefully-planned cautiously-coordinated reopening of temples around the world, and for the revelatory process that drives those announcements every week. Although no temples anywhere have reached phase 4 (a return to full normal operations), it is wonderful the Church has been prudent and wise in the announcements of changes each week.
As always, I continue to monitor all Church news and temple updates, and remain committed to bringing you all word of those updates as I become aware thereof. This Saturday (November 6), Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf will be celebrating his 81st birthday, with Elder Dale G. Renlund observing his 69th birthday exactly one week later. I will be presetting my next apstolic data update to publish here on Sunday November 14 (which will mark the final such update for this year).
I also continue to be hopeful that opening arrangements might soon be announced for the Yigo Guam and Quito Ecuador Temples, with reopening arrangements for the Tokyo Japan and Hamilton New Zealand Temples announced soon as well. And I continue to hope that the announcements of multiple temple groundbreakings will be made within the next couple of week for most (if not all) of the remaining temples that will have a groundbreaking this year, though there is also the prospect that the Church could report a groundbreaking has already occurred for some temples. So stay tuned for more on all of these developments as i find out about them and pass them along.
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