Hello again, everyone! I am coming to you today with an updated version of my October 2026 General Conference predictions. I deemed that necessary because it appears that the Church may be opting to have members of the Presidency of the Seventy and the Presiding Bishopric speak on the same rotating basis that has typically been used for the other General Authority Seventies (once every 5-6 years). I say that because we last heard from someone in the Presidency of the Seventy in April 2025, which was also the last time we heard from someone in the Presiding Bishopric.
We also have a unique situation occurring in April 2027, when two current members of the Presidency of the Seventy will be released and granted emeritus status, effective that August. So I had that to consider as well. As a result, my revised speaker lineup includes Bishop Sean Douglas and Elder Marcus B. Nash, both of whom last spoke in October 2021. And since the last General Conference featured speakers who last offered remarks in April 2021, the October 2021 window seems like the right interval from which to pull speakers.
That being said, Elder Edward Dube last spoke in April 2021, so I wondered if he'd somehow fit into this conference as well. But he won't turn 70 until 2032, so we've got plenty of time to hear from him probably a few more times before Elder Dube himself is granted emeritus status, whereas that is not the case for Elder Nash. And with the Presiding Bishopric likely not changing until 2029 at the earliest, Bishop Douglas is the one who has not spoken since October 2021, making it likely he will do so in this General Conference.
My projected changes in general Church leadership and my masterlist of all locations in which a temple could be announced in the near term remain largely unchanged. I am looking forward to whatever major temple construction news will be shared on Tuesday during the 2:00 PM MDT hour here in Utah (because Monday is Labor Day, a federal holiday in the United States, and Church headquarters is closed on that date).
I invite you all to 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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