Hello again, everyone! As the concluding moments of General Conference neared its' President Russell M. Nelson announced 13 new temples of the Church. Given this developing news, I am going to publish an initial version of this post, then update it as I can carry out that analysis thereof. I anticipate that most of these temples will be on the smaller side, to fill existing gaps. I am grateful that, on my own list, I had the following locations exactly correct: Tacloban City Philippines, Monrovia Liberia; Antananarivo Madagascar; Culiacan Mexico; La Paz Bolivia; Fort Worth Texas; Rexburg North Idaho; and Heber Valley Utah.
Meanwhile, I had the following general locations correct, but the specific city was not what I listed: Kaohsiung, Taiwan (I had predicted Taichung); Kananga Democratic Republic of the Congo (I had Mbuji-Mayi on my list, which could be the next one for that nation); Vitoria Brazil (I had prioitized other prospects); Santiago West Chile (I had prioritized Osorno and Vina del Mar); and Cody Wyoming (I had again prioritized Evanston).
It might take me a few days into this week before I can even post a preliiminary analysis of my General Conference predictions. For now, though, the other major development was the prophet announcing that, once the Orem Utah Temple is in operation, the Provo Utah Temple will be closed for an extensive reconstructive process. So that's a breaking news update I wasn't anticipating, though I am not as surprised by another double-digit number of new temples being announced.
With these 13 announced temples, the total number of temples throughout the world in any phase has now risen to 265. It's also worth noting, I think, that the temples announced for Libeia and Madagascar will kick both of those nations off of the list of the top ten nations with the stongest Church presence without a temple. Liberia and Madagascar had been second and third on that list respectively.
I'd probably defer to Matthew Matinich at the Church Growth Blog for any information on how the latest temples on the list haing temples announced has changed that top ten list. In any case, I am impressed by the announcement of 13 new temples today. Hopefully a lot of those temples will be smaller and more easily approved. And the more I think about that, the moe it occurs to me that maybe President Nelson doesn't need to spell out the specifics of his temple construction plans, since his fellow apostles have been open on that subject.
I am grateful to have learned about this development and to pass it along to you all here. I continue to monitor ongoing Church News and temple construction updates 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.
