BREAKING TEMPLE NEWS: Location Confirmed, Rendering Released, and Groundbreaking Scheduled for the Bacolod Phlippines Temple

Hello again, everyone! Within the last hour or so, the Church's official Newsroom announced official details for the Bacolod Philippines Temple. The released information includes a location, exterior rendering, and the announcement that ground will be broken for that temple on Saturday December 11, 2021. Elder Taniela B. Wakolo, the pesident of the Philippines Area of the Church, will preside thereat.

The temple will be situatted on the Bacolod Airport Access Road, North of Buri Road in Bacolod. The single-story edifice of 26,700 square feet will be joined by patron housing, an arrival center and a distribution center, all of which will be found in the ancillary building adjacent to the temple. The Bacolod Philippines Temple was one of 2 announced originally in October 2019. for which no official information had been announced. The only one now remaining from that group is now the Freetown Sierra Leone Temple.

I wanted to quickly note here something related to the timing: Although this temple will not have a groundbreaking until December 11, I am reasonably certain that the Church will announce groundbreakings for quite a few temples that will wind up occurring between the last currently-scheduled groundbreaking (for the Pago Pago American Samoa Temple on October 30 of this year) and the groundbreaking for the newest temple in the Philippines on December 11.

I will be sure to keep my eyes open for any update in that regard, and will pass that along to you all here as needed. That does it for now. Any and all comments are, as always, welcome and appreciated, on any post at any time, as long as such comments are made in accordance with the established guidelines. Thank you for the privilege of your time. If you enjoyed what you read here and would like to stay informed of newly added content, please feel free to subscribe. 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: Transcripts of General Conference Now Available

Hello again, everyone! This is just a quick note to confirm that the transcripts of talks given during last weekend's General Conference are now available. President Nelson has invited us to regularly review those addresses for the next six months, so I'd urge all mty readers to follow and take advantage of that invitation.

That does it for now. Any and all comments are, as always, welcome and appreciated, on any post at any time, as long as such comments are made in accordance with the established guidelines. Thank you for the privilege of your time. If you enjoyed what you read here and would like to stay informed of newly added content, please feel free to subscribe. 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 TEMPLE NEWS: Temple Reopenings To Continue Throughout October

 Hello again, everyone! A shot time ago, the Church released its' weekly update on temple reopenings. Aside from the main Church News report, updates have also been relfected in the temple reopening status tracker and were documented in the updated Newsroom release.  Let's get into the details. Two temples, which had previously paused their reopening due to COVID-19 conditions, regulations, and restrictions, have reopened in phase 3: Duban South Africa and Papeete Tahiti.

Additionally, several weeks ago, the Church announced that, following the dedication of the Pocatello Idaho Temple (which is set to occur on Saturday November 7), that temple will open in phase 3 right off the bat. The Church also announced this morning that the Winnipeg Manitoba Temple, which is scheduled to be dedicated on October 31 (with that announcement coming after the information about Pocatello's opening was announced) will also start operations in phase 3.

The Medford Oregon Temple, which had originally been projected to move to phase 3 in August,  has not yet transitioned to that phase, and no new updates are available on when that might occur.  The Church also has 7 temples remaining in phases 1 or 2 (neither of which opens those temples for proxy work), among which 2 temples are closed for renovations.

It may also be of interest to some of you that, with the recent renovation closure of the Manti Utah Temple going into effect over General Conference weekend, the Church has given that temple a phase 3 designation so that patrons within that temple district can schedule living and proxy ordinances at the temples nearest to them. 

The latest announcements leaves the reopening status of temples worldwide as follows: 9 closed for renovation (all but 2 of which of those districts have been granted phase 3 designations); with 3 more each either paused (2 in phase 3 and 1 in phase 2) or in phases 1 & 2; 4 temples operating in phase 2-B (allowing all living ordinances in priority order in addition to limited poxy baptisms by appointmen); and the remaining 146 are in phase 3.

The Church continues to monitor conditions and restrictions relating to COVID-19 and to adjust temple reopening plans accordingly in a cautious and carefully-coordinated manner, which continues to be wonderful to observe. I testify The inspired nature of thsese reopening announcements week-to-week have been both humbling and gratifying to see. I testify that the Lord, though inspiration and providing good information to our apostles in the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve, is directly effecting the miraculous circumstances under which each week's announcements are made.

On my end, I continue to monitor all Church news updates and temple developments and remain committed to bringing word of those to you all as I become aware thereof. That does it for now. Any and all comments are, as always, welcome and appreciated, on any post at any time, as long as such comments are made in accordance with the established guidelines. Thank you for the privilege of your time. If you enjoyed what you read here and would like to stay informed of newly added content, please feel free to subscribe. 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.