Hello again, everyone! Today the First Presidency announced several major temple construction updates. They provided a summary of the groundbreaking for the Riberao Preto Brazil Temple. That part of the report speaks for itself. But they also announced a groundbreaking for the Santiago West Chile Temple and the site location and preliminary information for the Springfield Missouri Temple. Let's get into all the relevant details:
The Santiago West Chile Temple's original announcement occurred in October 2021. The site location was announced in December 2022. The exterior rendering of the temple was released in conjunction with the groundbreaking announcement. I will let others more qualified than I comment as they will on the exterior rendering.
In the interim, the groundbreaking will take place on Saturday, August 17, the same day as the previously announced groundbreakings for the Londrina Brazil and Austin Texas Temples. It has been quite a while since more than two groundbreakings have been held on the same date. Elder Alan R. Walker, Second Counselor in the South America South Area presidency, will preside at this temple's groundbreaking.
Additional details, including the official name of this temple, will be announced at a later date. This groundbreaking announcement indicates that the queue of announced temples is moving, albeit slowly, towards construction.
We now turn our attention to the details about the Springfield Missouri Temple. The temple, originally announced in April 2023, will rise on a portion of a 38-acre site located at 2720 East Farm Road #188, Springfield, Missouri. According to the news release, plans call for an approximately 29,000-square-foot temple.
I have heard through the grapevine that President Nelson is urging the Special Projects Division to move forward with greater urgency to secure the necessary approvals to build the many announced temples that are not progressing up the queue quickly enough. So I'm hopeful we'll have many more announcements of groundbreakings, exterior renderings, and site announcements in the days ahead.
I continue to monitor any and all Church News, Newsroom, and Church of Jesus Christ Temples updates and will be sure to pass word of those along to you all as they cross my radar. In the meantime, that does it for now. All comments are, as always, welcome and appreciated on any post at any time, as long as the offered feedback is made per the established guidelines.
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