Hello again, everyone! Yesterday, I took another hiatus from crafting new content on this blog. I will be posting a comment about the Church News, Newsroom, and Church Temples updates ASAP this evening, but for now, I wanted to share my initial predictions for the October 2025 General Conference. Although I will, in general, let them speak for themselves, I am more than happy to engage in answering any questions any of you may have about them.
As usual, we have my projected speaker lineup, an overview of potential changes in general Church leadership, and my latest updated list of prospective locations in which a temple could be announced. I have taken the liberty to expand my net a little bit, based on the trends of Nelsonian temple announcements.
If I am overlooking any potential or likely locations, please let me know. I will also add that I am projecting that 18 new temples will be announced in October, which will bring the number of temples in any phase to an even 400. I will have a more specific list of what to me are the most likely temple announcements by area at some point between now and the October 2025 General Conference weekend.
I will be happy to add any viable locations that I may have missed if there is a strong enough rationale for doing so. I look forward to any feedback any of you have for me. I am pleased to declare that the window for any feedback on these predictions is now open, and it will remain open until Thursday, October 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM.
Stay tuned here for my coverage of the latest updates from the Church News, Newsroom, and Church of Jesus Christ Temples sites. I’ll be sure to pass word of those along to you all as soon as I learn about them. 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 all such feedback is made per the established guidelines.
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Regarding Mexico, I think Poza Rica is the most plausible entry on that list. Mazatlan I don't see happening until Culiacan has gone through and a couple of districts nearby become stakes. Durango is kind of isolated but ditto there except replace Culiacan with Torreón.
ReplyDeleteAguascalientes has both Queretaro and San Luis Potosi under construction nearby, such a temple COULD take the Zacatecas stakes to the north and Leon to the south. More plausible than Mazatlan or Durango BUT
Poza Rica definitely is the most plausible. Two stakes in Poza, one in nearby Papantla, one in nearby Tuxpan, and would grab the Xalapa stakes to the south plus Martinez de la Torre and perhaps Teziutlan in northeastern Puebla. If the area around Huauchinango becomes a district or a stake, definitely would go to Poza.
Though I think there could be a darkhorse contender.
Nealtican.
A smallish town (pop 20k) that currently houses three stakes. A nearby stake exists to the south in Atlixco and a district in Izúcar de Matamoros. Ometoxtla to the east was recently made into a stake. On the other side of the mountains you have Ozumba and Amecameca which are another couple of stakes. The history surrounding Nealtican is one of the most cherished in the Church history in all of Mexico; having a temple there would be symbolic of that town's maturation in faith.
I could also see a third temple in Mexico City on the south side of the city near the National University. Due to the heavy traffic that exists to cross the city to reach the currently existing temple in Aragon (NE side of the city) and the soon to be existing temple in Benemerito which is NW of Aragon.
The first chapel built in Mexico City was in Ermita and I would NOT be surprised if a proposed third temple in Mexico City were to carry that name.
Hey, Bryan Dorman! Great to hear from you again. Hope all is well with you and yours, my friend. I appreciate you weighing in here with your thoughts about Mexican temple prospects. I always appreciate hearing from someone with more first-hand knowledge than I'm working with. I have no doubt your assessment is correct. As a result, I have revised my list. I have chosen in the revision to list Mexico City South as the top prospect, followed by Poza Rica, Aguascalientes, Nealtican, Durango, and then Mazatlan. I can see the logic behind your arguments for or against each prospect, but I'm also looking at this from the perspective of what has been announced thus far and what that can tell me about what could be announced in the future, whether or not in the near term. Those changes are now reflected in the corresponding document. Thank you, Bryan Dorman, for taking time to comment.
DeleteI think the newly announced Chorrillos, Peru temple counts at a “Lima South” temple as Chorrillos is part of the larger Lima MSA
DeleteYou are correct on that, Maxx, but based on the sheer number of stakes in Lima Peru (now totalling at least 50), I am sure there are enough temple-attending Saints residing in southern Lima to warrant a second temple. In the October 2022 General Conference, President Nelson stated that: "We are also planning to build multiple temples in selected large metropolitan areas where travel time to an existing temple is a major challenge." I would say Lima in general qualifies for multiple temples, and given what has been announced already, I could easily see the need for two temples in southern Lima. Where specifically another one could be placed is anyone's guess, but there is a need in southern Lima to warrant a second temple in that region. Hope that explains why I support Lima South staying on my list of prospective temple locations. Thanks for stopping by to share your feedback. I appreciate you weighing in.
DeleteHello again, everyone! In this comment on the threads of the previous post, I shared the Church News and Newsroom updates from yesterday. With no additional Newsroom updates noted today, the Church News covered the following reports: study resources are available for from the April 2025 General Conference, the Kansas City Royals hosted a "#JustServe" night, Elder D. Todd Christofferson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles' ministry in Mexico, a review of Church resources for mental health issues, Elder Dale G. Renlund's ministry in South Korea, and Elder Ulisses Soares' reflections on the dedication of the Nairobi Kenya Temple. My thanks once again to you all.
ReplyDeleteOn this Friday, the Newsroom has provided this report on Relief Society General President Camille N. Johnson's ministry in the Asia Area, which began on May 23 and will conclude on June 3. Her ministry started in Indonesia (which has recently had a temple announced). She is currently ministering in Thailand (which has a dedicated temple) and will conclude her ministry tour in Nepal. I for one would not be shocked if part of her tour involved assessing how soon the first Indonesian temple can have construction commence and to check for potential locations for a future temple in Kathmandu.
ReplyDeleteMoving on to the Church News reports, study helps have been provided for the April 2024 General Conference talk by Elder James R. Rasband, new music features are being rolled out into the Gospel Library app, Elder Ulisses Soares ministered in the Republic of the Congo, where he might very well have been sent to assess how soon work can begin on the Brazzaville temple, Church leaders and college experts have weighed in on how to use social media for good, and the latest edition of "This Week on Social" has been published, featuring social media content from the following general Church leaders:
President Henry B. Eyring, Second Counselor in the First Presidency; Elders D. Todd Christofferson, Neil L. Andersen, Ronald A. Rasband, Gerrit W. Gong, Ulisses Soares, and Patrick Kearon, each of whom is a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles; Young Women General President Emily Belle Freeman and her Second Counselor, Sister Andrea Munoz Spannaus (both of whom posted via Young Women Worldwide); Primary General President Susan H. Porter and her First Counselor, Sister Amy A. Wright; and Brother Bradley R. (Brad) Wilcox, the outgoing First Counselor in the Young Men General Presidency.
My thanks once again to you all.