Hello again, everyone! Within the last hour or so, the First Presidency announced the open house and dedication of the Yigo Guam Temple. There is a lot to get into here, so let's jump right in. A temple open house will be held for that edifice from Wednesy May 4-Saturday May 14, excluding Sunday May 8. A youth devotional on Saturday May 21, with the temple dedication being held the following day (Sunday May 15).
Elder David A. Bednar of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles will preside over the dedicatory events. Last year, as some of you might recall, the Winnipeg Manitoba Temple was dedicated on Sunday October 31, with the dedication of the Pocatello Idaho Temple following exactly one week later. With today's announcement, the Rio de Janeiro Brazil Temple will be dedicated on Sunday May 8, one week before the dedication of the Yigo Guam Temple.
President Nelson continues his established tradition of assigining temple dedications and rededications to his fellow apostles, so I will be interested to see how that trend continues this year. I had projected in my year-end 2021 temple construction progress report that this temple's dedication could potentially be delayed until sometime in August of this year.
But I had forgottten that the Yigo temple and temple district is smaller, so the paramerters on public gatherings for Yigo would be different from other regions. With that in mind, it will be interesting to see what works out for the timing of the opening events for the Praia Cabo Verde and San Juan Puerto Rico Temples.
And although the Quito Ecuador Temple is completed and could be the next one to have opening arrangements announced, the Church has not yet publicly announced the first president and matron for that temple, so it's possible that until such an announcement is made, the dedication thereof might not be announced.
There may also be a chance that both the Praia Cabo Verde and San Juan Puerto Rico Temples could be dedicated before the Quito Ecuador Temple. But today's announcement also means that I will need to again readjust the prospective dedication or rededication windows for other temples. I last offered those estimates in the final temple construction progress report for 2021.
I am hopeful that the next temple announcements could be for groundbreakings, since there are several temples literally "waiting in the wings" for those events.It will be interesting to see what happens with temple construction developments as the year progresses. I continue to monitor all such updates, in addition to any major updates in the Church News and the Newsroom, and will be sure to pass those along to you all here as I become aware thereof.
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Hello again, everyone! I have been dealing with a few additional health issues in recent weeks. As a result thereof, yesterday, I was able to compile a list of the latest Church News updates:
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https://www.thechurchnews.com/living-faith/2022-01-12/byu-devotional-president-worthen-humility-peggy-worthen-239487
https://www.thechurchnews.com/global/2022-01-12/matthew-modine-actor-rootstech-keynote-speaker-239648
https://www.thechurchnews.com/leaders-and-ministry/2022-01-12/elder-soares-worldwide-missionary-devotional-mtc-doctrine-of-christ-23952
https://www.thechurchnews.com/living-faith/2022-01-12/president-henry-j-eyring-byu-idaho-devotional-honor-covid-19-pandemic-masks-vaccines-robert-d-hales-239584
https://www.thechurchnews.com/members/2022-01-11/notre-dame-kahanu-kia-football-missionary-north-carolina-239461
https://www.thechurchnews.com/living-faith/2022-01-12/byu-pathway-ashton-spiritual-foundation-on-the-rock-of-our-redeemer-devotional-239578
I will be back with a list of Church News updates from today shortly. For now, my thanks once again to you all.
The Church News provided the following additional updates today:
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https://www.thechurchnews.com/living-faith/2022-01-13/counsel-together-come-follow-me-young-women-classes-aaronic-priesthood-quorums-238945
https://www.thechurchnews.com/members/2022-01-13/area-temple-and-family-history-advisers-support-stake-leaders-239057
And with tomorrow marking President Nelson’s 4 anniversary as the prophet, the Church News and the Newsroom shared insights into the invitations offered by and the prophetic promises made through our prophet:
https://www.thechurchnews.com/leaders-and-ministry/2022-01-13/president-nelson-invitations-prophet-gather-israel-hear-him-covenant-path-198003
https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/four-years-of-invitations-president-nelson
My hope is to provide a post tomorrow to cover my thoughts about this anniversary. If there are any other Church news reports or temple developments, I will share those later today or tomorrow. In the meantime, my thanks once again to you all.
This is certainly exciting news! My sister-in-law served her mission in the Guam Micronesia mission several years back.
ReplyDeleteI hope this is a good sign that more dedications and rededications will be scheduled as the year goes on. If anything, things will certainly get busy moving into next year as more temples complete construction and more begin construction. I served my mission in Virginia so I am eagerly awaiting the completion of the Richmond Temple which seems to be on track for later this year. :) I hope to go see it not long after it's dedicated.
Hey, Eric! Thanks for stopping by to share the connection your sister-in-law has to the Guam Micronesia Mission. Based on research I had done in the recent past, I concluded that only one or two new temple dedications and one or two temple rededications would occur during the first half of this year. I wasn't anticipating a mid-May date for the Yigo Guam Temple, or that it would be dedicated one week after the previously-announced dedication of the Rio de Janeiro Brazil Temple.
DeleteI agree with your assessment: I too look forward to seeing how the Church schedules temple dedications and rededications this year. It will also be interesting to see how temple groundbreakings are scheduled this year. Due to the unexpected announcement on the Freetown Sierra Leone Temple, I am hopefuly other unexpected temples could see that occur sooner rather than later.
We have 18 temples for which site announcements have been made, and for which all but 1 of them (Ephraim Utah) also have an exterior rendering released, so there is a lot to which we can look forward. Thanks again, Eric.