BREAKING NEWS: First 13 Hymns from the New Hymnbook Have Been Released

Hello again, everyone! As announced just before General Conference weekend, the Church has released the first 13 hymns that will be featured in the new global Hymns--for Home and Church. From the Sabbath and Weekday Section, the following hymns have been released: Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing; When the Savior Comes Again; It Is Well With My Soul; I Will Walk With Jesus; His Eye Is On the Sparrow; Think a Sacred Song; As Bread Is Broken; Bread of Life, Living Water; and Gethsemane.

From the Easter and Christmas Section, the following hymns have been released: Hail the Day that Sees Him Rise; He Is Born, the Divine Christ Child; What Child Is This?; and Star Bright. I am pleased to see several that I personally recognize (Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing; It Is Well With My Soul; I Will Walk with Jesus (a Primary song); His Eye Is On the Sparrow, Gethsemane; He Is Born, the Divine Christ Child; and What Child Is This?). I look forward to learning the others.

I was surprised and intrigued by the numbering system. The Sabbath and Weekday Hymns have a preface number of 10 and then numerical values from 01-09. The Easter and Crhstimas Section also uses numerical values from 01-04, but are prefaced by the number 12. I don't know if that's the numbering system that will stick, but I was intrigued by that. I am grateful for the release of these new selections. 

I will monitor when the next selections are announced and will post my analysis on those as they are released. I continue to monitor any and all Church News, Newsroom, and Church of Jesus Christ Temples updates and will be sure to pass word of those along to you all as they cross my radar. 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 the offered feedback is made per the established guidelines. 

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BREAKING TEMPLE NEWS: Opening Arrangements Set for the San Pedro Sula Honduras Temple

Hello again, everyone! Because yesterday (Monday) was Memorial Day in the United States, the next major temple construction announcement was deferred to today. We received word of the opening arrangements for the San Pedro Sula Honduras Temple. Let's get right into those details:

A media day will be held for this temple on Monday, September 9, with invited guests touring the temple the following two days. Public tours will be offered between Thursday, September 12, and Saturday, September 28, 2024. Two dedicatory sessions will be held for the temple at 10:00 AM and 1:30 PM CDT (Central Daylight Time), which is 9:00 AM and 12:30 PM MDT, on Sunday, October 13,  2024, under the direction of Elder Dale G. Renlund of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

The San Pedro Sula Honduras Temple dedication will be held on the same day as the previously announced dedication of the Casper Wyoming Temple and one week prior to the previously announced dedication of the Salvador Brazil Temple. Due to the fact that San Pedro Sula's first dedicatory session begins at 9:00 AM Mountain Daylight Time and Casper's first dedicatory session begins at 10:00 AM MDT, San Pedro Sula will be the first of the two dedicated on that date.

While there were no other major temple construction announcements today, I am grateful we at least got this announcement of the opening arrangements for the San Pedro Sula Honduras Temple. I continue to monitor any and all Church News, Newsroom, and Church of Jesus Christ Temples updates and will be sure to pass word of those along to you all as they cross my radar. In the meantime, that does it for now. 

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UPDATED: October 2024 General Conference Speaker Lineup Projection

Hello again, everyone! After I posted my initial predictions for the October 2024 General Conference, I became somewhat unsettled about one aspect thereof: my predictions for GA Seventy speakers. That feeling led me to do more research, from which I discovered that when 9 or more GA Seventies are called in any given April, less than half of them speak the following October, with many of them waiting until the April or October following and at least one speaking 2 years after their initial call.

Based on that, I reconfigured my speaker lineup projections to reflect the fact that I now believe we will hear from 7 "veteran" GA Seventies and 5 of the 11 "new" GA Seventies sustained last April. If I am correct on that, that will take care of all but two of the "veteran: GA Seventies who last spoke in October 2019 (though it will also take care of all the GA Seventies who last spoke the previous April). As far as how I determined who to put where, that just took a bit of research and thought.

Again, maybe these adjustments won't matter to anyone but me, but if any of you are interested in these readjustments, if you have any questions about them, I'd be more than happy to address those. I continue to monitor any and all Church News, Newsroom, and Church of Jesus Christ Temples updates and will be sure to pass word of those along to you all as they cross my radar. In the meantime, that does it for now. 

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