Hello again, everyone! Today, as expected, the next major temple construction update has been announced. I was not expecting this, but today's announcement related to the San Luis Potosi Mexico Temple. Its' exterior rendering has been released and a groundbreaking date has been set. Let's break down the details:
This temple was announced during General Conference in April 2022. Its' site location was confirmed a little over six months later, several weeks after the October 2022 General Conference. The groundbreaking will occur in just over a month, on Saturday, March 9, 2024, with Elder Sean Douglas, Second Counselor in the Mexico Area presidency, presiding thereat.
Today's announcement gives me hope that we could see groundbreakings for other temples sooner than I've conjectured, because I wasn't anticipating today's announcement and had projected a window of late 2024 for that temple's groundbreaking. So the fact that this groundbreaking will occur in March is huge news. Also, this means that 2024's second temple groundbreaking will be taking place one month earlier than 2023's second temple groundbreaking.
So if other temples in the queue can likewise have an exterior rendering released and a groundbreaking announced simultaenously, or if others can get a site announcement confirmed, a rendering released, and a groundbreaking announced, there could be many other drastic shifts to the current queue of announced temples as we know it. And this indicates that the Church may indeed be able to do a double-digit number of groundbreakings this year.
With the size of the San Luis Potosi Mexico Temple, I''m sure it could easily be constructed speedily, possibly having construction wrap up sometime in 2026 or 2027. Stay tuned for more on this as that information is released.
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