Interesting Temple Tidbits from Rick Satterfield

Brother Rick Satterfield, webmaster of the LDS Church temples site, yesterday sent me a lovely e-mail sharing some interesting temple tidbits. Among what he shared are these facts, which I hope he doesn't mind me sharing with you all:

1. It was a news article on the Tucson Arizona temple that led to his pushing up the completion date of the Tucson Arizona temple.
2. He revised his estimation (a very educated guess) for the completion of the Paris France Temple, pushing it back to mid-2017.
3. He has placed Durban, Fortaleza, and Kinshasa in the order they are because they seem to be prime for completion in that order. However, he says that, from the information he has, Durban is going to be a smaller temple like Star Valley Wyoming, so there is a great likelihood Durban might be finished before Fortaleza and Kinshasa.
4. He placed Barranquilla ahead of Lisbon because he doesn't know what's happening in Lisbon. It doesn't appear that the Lisbon temple has progressed much beyond the groundbreaking it had in December. So it is very likely that Barranquilla could be finished ahead of Lisbon. Once he obtains any information about that, he'll update it on the website, and I will let you know as soon as I can after that happens.
5. He based his description for the Barranquilla temple on a small corner of a photograph submitted from when Elder Ronald A. Rasband of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles visited the site recently.

On an additional temple-related note, he gave me some feedback on my temple list, saying it is getting better and better. I thank him for that and got the message loud and clear: I need to work on fine-tuning it some more. I will likely have to winnow the list down to get to specific predictions for the October General Conference, and I will rely on information posted on Matthew Martinich's blog in order to do so. Hope you have enjoyed this post.

Missionary news: Russian Law Effect and All Missionaries Serving in Turkey are safe

KSL's news today at 6 featured a story on changes that are being made to the status of missionaries and missionary work in Russia. I will be posting a link to that story as soon as it is available.

In the meantime, the Church reports that missionaries serving in Turkey are safe following the governmental coup. Click here for details. Thanks for your readership, friendship, and interest.

Church News Conglomeration

This will be a conglomeration of Church news. First of all, the Church is seeking several more nurse missionaries to serve as mission nurses. Apparently they are really desperate for individuals to help in that assignment. For more on how to apply and what the requirements are, please see this link.

FamilySearch held a worldwide indexing event from July 15-17. Many names were added to the Church's database and are being made ready for the temple work to be done. For more details, please see this link.

Three new videos have been added to the Church's "Meet the Mormons" series. To learn more about this, please click here.

The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square completed their 2016 European tour recently. For an overview of all that the tour involved, click here.

Lots going on in the Church. What an exciting time to be alive!