Hello again, everyone! This afternoon, the First Presidency announced the opening arrangements for the Syracuse Utah Temple. Let's break down the details: a media day will be held on Wednesday, May 7, with tours for invited guests the next two days. Open house tours will be offered from Saturday, May 10-Saturday, May 31, except for the Sundays of May 11, 18, and 25. The temple will be dedicated in a single session on Sunday, June 8, 2025, a few months before I had projected. I am also stunned that the Syracuse Utah Temple had its' opening arrangements announced well before any of the others that have been ahead of it on the Church of Jesus Christ Temples construction status page.
This announcement does not include any indication of who will preside at that dedication. That suggests to me that it could be President Russell M. Nelson, assuming he feels well enough to do so. It is also possible that any other apostles could be assigned to that dedication. I will keep my eyes open for any updates on this and will pass that along as time and circumstances allow. I am grateful to have heard about this announcement and to be able to share it with you all.
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I hope President Holland dedicates the temple. He is the only apostle who has never presided at a dedication.
ReplyDeleteScott, while that is technically true, I don't think it will be President Holland who dedicates this temple. I say that because the last two times a temple dedication or rededication occurred in Utah and the announcement thereof did not include the presiding apostle's name, it has been President Nelson who has done so, health permitting. This year, an article released by the Deseret News featured Elder Rasband talking about the rededication of the Manti Utah Temple. in that article, Elder Rasband talked about the preparations for that rededication. He mentioned that for that rededication, the First Presidency came up with two plans: one for if President Nelson was able to be there, and the other in case he wasn't able to be there. President Holland is able to travel internationally, which President Nelson is not able to do at present or perhaps for however long he lives. So they might save President Holland for other temple dedications/rededications outside the United States. Back in 2002, President Holland was sent to preside over what was then the Chile Area of the Church. So I think it may be more likely that President Holland will be sent to preside at the Antofagasta Chile Temple rather than a temple in an area to which he has no known connection. Just my own theories and reasoning here, for whatever they may be worth to you. Thanks, Scott, as always, for taking time to comment.
DeleteHello again, everyone! On this Wednesday, the Church News has published a few new reports. Before I get to those, I failed to mention two other reports that were shared by the Church News yesterday: Sister Kristin M. Yee, Second Counselor in the Relief Society General Presidency, spoke at BYU-Idaho and gave counsel to missionaries at the Provo MTC, Elders D. Todd Christofferson and Ronald A. Rasband of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, in company with Relief Society General President Camille N. Johnson, gace counsel to BYU-Hawaii students.
ReplyDeleteAnd several new updates have been noted on the Church Temples site within the last few days. Finishing touches are being provided to the Antofagasta Chile and Grand Junction Colorado Temples. And construction progress has been provided for the following additional temples: Elko Nevada (which has moved ahead of the Alabang Philippines Temple, for the latter of which the status has not changed.
Continuing the list of temples with construction updates in the last few days, we have updates on the following temples: Bacolod Philippines, Neiafu Tonga, Freetown Sierra Leone, Kaohsiung Taiwan, Santa Cruz Bolivia, Wichita Kansas, Cody Wyoming, Austin Texas.
Continuing the construction updates: Santiago West Chile, Londrina Brazil, Teton River Idaho, Grand Rapids Michigan (where full-scale construction has begun in earnest), the renovation process for the Anchorage Alaska Temple, and new information on the Lethbridge Alberta and Vancouver Washington<=/a> Temples which hopefully mean that groundbreakings could be set for these two temples soon. My thanks once again to you all.
Just wanted to note some errors in the above comment: The link for the Santiago West Chile Teton River Idaho, Grand Rapids Michigan, and Lethbridge Alberta Temples were all broken. In addition, the Vancouver Washginton Temple link has an unintentional stray closing tag. I apologize for the errors and oversights.
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