Hello again, everyone! In aa single announcement today, the First Presidency released the location and rendering for the Bahia Blanca Argentina Temple and set a groundbreaking for it. The location will be Aldea Romana over Cabrera Avenue on a 8.14 acre site. The project will feature an ancillary building of 25,000 square feet, which will feature patron housing and a distribution center,
The temple itself will be a single-story edifice of 19,000 square feet. Elder Joquin E. Costa, the current First Counselor in the Brazil Area Presidency, will break ground for this temple that will serve his home city of Concordia, Entre Rios, Argentina on Saturday April 9, 2022. That means it will occur two weeks prior to the recently-announced groundbreaking for the Lindon Utah Temple. So there will be 1 temple groundbreaking in March, followed by 3 temple groundbreakings in April in a 3-week period.
That also means that, before the one-year anniversary of the Deseret Peak Utah Temple groundbreaking (which will be observed on May 15), four new temples will have had a groundbreaking before the time it tookto do the first one last year. That suggests 2022 will indeed be a big year for groundbreakings. I can't wait to see the announcements that may come next.
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The Church News also shared information about the groundbreaking, in an article that confirmed the reasons why Elder Joaquin E. Costa is presiding at the groundbreaking:
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I mistakenly asserted that Elder Costa was First Counselor in the Brazil Area Presidency, due to a misinterpretation of the data in one of my files. Effective last year, he became the Second Counselor in the South America South Area, under which the nation of Argentina falls. I apologize for that misleading assertion in my post.
The Church News also shared the following additional reports:
https://www.thechurchnews.com/leaders-and-ministry/2022-02-09/elder-christofferson-mtc-devotional-missionaries-repentance-baptism-redemption-joy-242322
https://www.thechurchnews.com/global/2022-02-09/maysoon-zayid-comedian-keynote-speaker-rootstech-2022-242518
https://www.thechurchnews.com/living-faith/2022-02-09/elder-william-jackson-byu-idaho-devotional-suicide-bombing-opposition-gods-plan-faith-242456
https://www.thechurchnews.com/living-faith/2022-02-09/african-american-family-history-event-tacoma-washington-a-proud-heritage-242420
My thanks once again to you all.
Updates have been provided on the status of the Feather River California and Orem Utah Temples:
Deletehttps://churchofjesuschristtemples.org/feather-river-california-temple/
https://churchofjesuschristtemples.org/orem-utah-temple/
With reference to the Orem Utah Temple, I'd like to personally note that my wife and I have had occaisions to pass it when we've been en route to appointments elsewhere, and the construction is coming along great. We haven't yet been able to stop at the site and take pictures, but if and when that happens, I'll try to pass them along here as well as submitting those to the Church Temples site.
On another note, the Church Temples site has reordered the queue of temples undergoing renovation:
https://churchofjesuschristtemples.org/status/
As you can see, the Tokyo Japan and Hamilton New Zealand Temples are now at the top of that section, despite the fact that both are awaiting reopening dates. This might suggest that both temples, in addition to the Columbus Ohio Temple, are anticiapted to be rededicated before the August 14 rededication of the Washington D.C. Temple. That's not guaranteed, but appears to be the thinking behind those updates. The Hong Kong China Temple is listed after Washington D.C., indicating that its dedication might at least be delayed until after August 14.
As I've recently noted, the timing of the dedication of new temples or the rededication of temples for which renovation has been completed is more than slightly tricky to predict. But I am hopeful that the first half of the year sees the rededication of at least one temple, and the dedication of 2 or 3 of the 5 other temples which are completed or nearing completion. I will track and monitor all of those updates and will be sure to pass them along to you all here as I receive word thereof. In the meantime, my thanks once again to you all.
Hello again, everyone! The Church News has shared the biographies of 8 new temple leader couples:
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As a consequence, I have updated my list of temples for which new presidents have been (or may yet be) called:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J-KR6Hdv4ElYa8ZxBn6OqGWSEMcZxi3GaLcCoYTrJec/edit?usp=sharing
Without exception, each temple for which new leaders have been called have been (or would have been) on my list of temples most likely to have new leadership called this year. I will be sharing my analysis of any current area seventies who have been called as temple presidents with my revised predictions for the April 2022 General Conference, on which I am still actively working.
Here are other new reports from the Church News:
https://www.thechurchnews.com/global/2022-02-10/mental-health-disorder-byu-marjorie-pay-hinckley-worlds-longest-psychology-study-terrie-moffitt-242436
https://www.thechurchnews.com/members/2022-02-10/office-for-civil-rights-dismisses-complaint-against-byu-deseret-news-242585
https://www.thechurchnews.com/global/2022-02-10/sikhs-and-latter-day-saints-dubai-uae-interfaith-service-project-242514
https://www.thechurchnews.com/living-faith/2022-02-10/young-women-leaders-trust-in-the-lord-2022-youth-theme-242338
My thanks once again to you all.
Also, in view of a new update on the Belem Brazil Temple, I have moved it ahead of the Praia Cabo Verde Temple in the queue on my temple construction progress report, though the Church Temples site did not make a corresponding adjustment:
Deletehttps://churchofjesuschristtemples.org/belem-brazil-temple/
https://churchofjesuschristtemples.org/praia-cape-verde-temple/
And another update was provided on the Layton Utah Temple:
https://churchofjesuschristtemples.org/layton-utah-temple/
My thanks once agai to you all.
My thanks once again to you all.