Three Important Items from Mormon Newsroom

Hello again, everyone! Mormon Newsroom has published a few significant news stories in the last several days that are worth a mention. In this article, a California congregation describes their experience of sharing their Church building for a year with a local Jewish congregation, which culminated in a Shabbat Service in which people from both faiths were in attendance. I appreciate very much how the Church is cultivating relationships with friends of other faiths in various ways.

In the meantime, Elder David A. Bednar, who is the member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles assigned to oversee the Africa West Area, traveled to Ghana to dedicate the brand new Missionary Training Center. You can read more about that here.

And finally, from the Newsroom Blog, we have this story detailing how Sister Carol F. McConkie of the Young Women General Presidency and Sister Sharon Eubank, who is both the director of LDS Charities and the First Counselor in the Relief Society General Presidency, met with the First Lady of Peru regarding her desire to thank the Church for the Mormon Helping Hands that helped with local projects. They also presented the First lady with a framed copy of The Living Christ in Spanish.

That does it for this Church news update. Any comments are welcome and appreciated. Thank you for the privilege of your time. Until my next post, I wish each of you all the best.

Significant Development Reported on Construction of the Durban South Africa Temple

Hello, everyone! Earlier today, I heard of significant developments for the Durban South Africa Temple, and this is the first chance I have had to post about it. For anyone following along, the previously detailed status of that temple has now been replaced with the note that roof trusses are being set for that temple.

That said, there are still some questions to settle in terms of the potential sequence of temple-related events, and I am working on that side of things as speedily as I can. I hope to post a concrete result of that study ASAP. Until that time, any comments are welcome and appreciated. Thank you for the privilege of your time. Until my next post, I wish each of you all the best.

Blog Report: How My Projected Version of the November 2017 Ensign Table of Contents Compared with the Actual Result

Hello again, everyone! Now that the PDF version of the November 2017 Ensign is available for all to see, I thought I would post about how the projected table of contents I put together compares to the actual thing. I hope this information may prove interesting to at least some of you. Any comments are welcome and appreciated. Thank you for the privilege of your time. Until my next post, I wish you all the best.

Possible Table of Contents for the November 2017 Ensign (Parentheses indicate actual page numbers and content.)

Session	Page	Title	Speaker
	2	Conference Summary for the 187th Semiannual General Conference
	3	Indexes
	4	Highlights from the 186th Semiannual General Conference
GW	8 (6)	Turn On Your Light	Sharon Eubank
	11 (10)	Abiding in God and Repairing the Breach	Neill F. Marriott
	14 (13)	Value beyond Measure	Joy D. Jones
	17 (16)	Three Sisters	President Dieter F. Uchtdorf
SAM	22 (21)	A Yearning for Home	President Dieter F. Uchtdorf
	26 (25)	The Needs before Us	Bonnie L. Oscarson
	28	The Plan and the Proclamation	Elder Dallin H. Oaks
	32	“I Have a Work for Thee”	Elder John C. Pingree Jr.
	35 (36)	The Living Bread Which Came Down from Heaven	Elder D. Todd Christofferson
	39 (40)	Be Ye Therefore Perfect—Eventually	Elder Jeffrey R. Holland
SAA	43	The Sustaining of Church Officers	President Henry B. Eyring
	45 (44)	Spiritual Eclipse	Elder Gary E. Stevenson
	49 (48)	Repentance Is Always Positive	Stephen W. Owen
	52 (51)	The Eternal Everyday	Elder Quentin L. Cook
	56 (55)	By Divine Design	Elder Ronald A. Rasband
	60 (58)	The Heart of the Widow	Elder O. Vincent Haleck
	62 (60)	The Book of Mormon: What Would Your Life be Like Without It?	President Russell M. Nelson
SPH	67 (64)	The Priesthood and the Savior’s Atoning Power	Elder Dale G. Renlund
	70 (68)	The Truth of All Things	Elder David F. Evans
	77 (75)	Earning the Trust of the Lord and Your Family	Elder Richard J. Maynes
	79 (78)	Bearers of Heavenly Light	President Dieter F. Uchtdorf
	82 (81)	The Lord Leads His Church	President Henry B. Eyring
SUM	85	That Your Joy Might Be Full	Jean B. Bingham
	87 (88)	Has the Day of Miracles Ceased?	Elder Donald L. Hallstrom
	90	Exceeding Great & Precious Promises	Elder David A. Bednar
	94	Turn to the Lord	Bishop W. Christopher Waddell
	97	Lord, Wilt Thou Cause That My Eyes May Be Opened	Elder W. Craig Zwick
	100	Fear Not To Do Good	President Henry B. Eyring
SUA	104	The Trek Continues!	Elder M. Russell Ballard
	107	God’s Compelling Witness: The Book of Mormon	Tad R. Callister
	109 (110)	Apart, but Still One	Elder Joni L. Koch
	111 (112)	Do We Trust Him? Hard Is Good	Elder Stanley G. Ellis
	114 (115)	Essential Truths—Our Need to Act	Elder Adilson de Paula Parrella
	116 (117)	Seek Ye Out of the Best Books	Elder Ian S. Ardern
	118 (119)	Love One Another as He Has Loved Us	Elder Jose L. Alonso
	121 (122)	The Voice of the Lord	Elder Neil L. Andersen
	72	General Authorities and General Officers of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
	125 (127)	Conference Story Index
	126	In Memoriam: Elder Robert D. Hales	[Not included in this Ensign; such a tribute will be included as a supplemental publication accompanying the Ensign]
	130	They Spoke To Us: Making General Conference Part of Our Lives	[Not included in this Ensign]
	132 [126]	News of the Church 132: Report of General Conference [Not included in this Ensign] 133 [126]: Juan A. Uceda/Patrick Kearon 134 [127-136]: Other Church News (Temple Updates, etc.)	[Help in Times of Trouble; Three Temples Dedicated; Prophets, Apostles Minister Worldwide; Resources for the Hearing Impaired; New Scripture Translations; Missionary Training Centers; Sister Bingham at the United Nations]
	137	Come Follow Me—For Melchizedek Priesthood and Relief Society (Introduction to and Instructions for New Curriculum)	[A New Direction for Sunday Meetings; Come Follow Me—For Melchizedek Priesthood and Relief Society; What Is Different; First Sunday Council Meetings; Second and Third Sunday Meetings; Fourth Sunday Meetings]
	144	Last page of General Conference Ensign

NOTE: When putting this together originally, I had forgotten that the Church would be including a supplement to the Ensign to honor the life of Elder Robert D. Hales. The days when mentions of apostolic deaths are made in the regular magazines are passed. Just wanted to note that..