Construction Status Updated for the Barranquilla Colombia Temple

Hello again, everyone! I am posting in the early morning hours of March 9th to pass along an exciting update that has come to my attention regarding the Barranquilla Colombia Temple. The new information indicates that exterior lighting tests are underway, and that landscaping and interior work on that temple continues to make significant progress as well.

To put this update into perspective, this temple, along with the Concepcion Chile and Rome Italy Temples, are almost identical in terms of their construction statuses. So it is easy to see why the Concepcion Chile and Barranquilla Colombia Temple dedications have been set to occur 6 weeks apart.

What will be interesting to see is how (and if) the Rome Italy Temple will be able to have its' dedication prior to the end of this year. If that does occur, and if, as indicated in that Italian newspaper article, the construction crew does turn the Rome temple back over to the Church by May of this year, I could see a dedication being scheduled to occur on November 11 or 18. But it would also make sense in another way if the Church held off on a dedication there until January or February 2019. It will be interesting to see how that unfolds.

As with everything else, I am keeping my eyes open for more information on all of these developments, and I will pass any further information and updates along as I receive them. That does it for this post. Any and all comments are, as always, welcome and appreciated. Thank you for the privilege of your time. Until my next post, I wish each one of you all the best and pray that the Lord will bless you all in everything you do.

BREAKING NEWS: Church Clarifies How Technology Usage Is Anticipated to Change the Mission Program

Hello again, everyone! After a few days within which not a lot of Church or temple developments have been reported (which in turn gave me the chance to take care of some health-related issues my wife and I continue to deal with), I am pleased to be able to pass along this article, which provides information from those general Church leaders that have a role with the missionary department regarding how the Church is gradually shifting to embrace technology more fully.

The way in which that will occur will in turn enable missionaries assigned to such contact centers to focus less on finding interested people and more on teaching individuals who find information on the Church online and would like to know more. I could go on about this for a long time if I allowed myself to, but will defer to others who are far better than I at putting these developments into their historical context. What a wonderful time to be alive!

That does it for this post. Any and all comments are, as always, welcome and appreciated. Thank you for the privilege of your time. Until my next post, I wish each one of you all the best and pray that the Lord will bless you all in everything you do.

Construction Update for the Durban South Africa Temple

Hello again, everyone! After taking most of the day to deal with some personal issues, I am pleased to post tonight to share an updated progress report for the Durban South Africa Temple. Temple reports do mean a lot to me generally, as long-time followers of this blog are no doubt aware, but that is particularly true for the Durban temple, as my mom was born in South Africa and is very familiar with the cities in that nation.

The update of which I have become aware is that precast concrete panels are being attached to the exterior, while the missionary housing has had a ring beam poured for its front veranda, and while driveway curbing is being installed.

Aside from this update, there have not been any changes reported in either the status of the other temples or in the general estimated time-frames for future temple events. Therefore, I wanted to again note that I am keeping my eyes open for developments as they occur and that I will do my best to pass those along as soon as I can after learning of them.

That does it for this post. Any and all comments are, as always, welcome and appreciated. Thank you for the privilege of your time. Until my next post, I wish each one of you all the best and pray that the Lord will bless you all in everything you do.