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Thursday, June 16, 2016

July Ensign Article about Elder Dale G. Renlund

The July Ensign is available on the web, and this month, a wonderful article by Elder Quentin L. Cook of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles introduces Elder Dale Gunnar Renlund to the Church. It is an extremely good read, and well worth looking over. Please see this link for that article, and enjoy it.

Church News Article about New General Authority Seventy Elder S. Mark Palmer

The Church recently published an article introducing us to Elder S. Mark Palmer, who was called as a new General Authority Seventy during the April General Conference. To read that article, please follow this link. Enjoy!

More New Temple Presidents Announced

Here's an updated list of those temples that are getting or may yet get a new president in 2016:

Temples getting a new president in 2016:
1. Nashville Tennessee
2. Fort Collins Colorado
3. Star Valley Wyoming
4. Hartford Connecticut
5. Philadelphia Pennsylvania
6. Columbia River Washington
7. Chicago Illinois
8. Mexico City Mexico
9. Hong Kong China
10.  London England
11.  Manhattan New York
12.  Medford Oregon
13.  Dallas Texas
14.  Birmingham Alabama
15.  Seattle Washington
16.  Hamilton New Zealand
17.  Cochabamba Bolivia
18.  Gilbert Arizona
19.  Anchorage Alaska
20.  Curitiba Brazil
21.  Kyiv Ukraine
22.  Panama City Panama
23.  Fresno California
24.  Memphis Tennessee
25.  Winter Quarters Nebraska
26.  Lima Peru
27.  Nauvoo Illinois
28.  Portland Oregon
29.  Merida Mexico
30.  Reno Nevada
31. Spokane Washington
32. Rexburg Idaho
33. Montreal Quebec.
34. Monterey Mexico
35. Ciudad Juárez Mexico
36. Aba Nigeria
37. Nuku’alofa Tonga
38. Raleigh North Carolina
39. Provo Utah
40. Guadalajara Mexico
41. Copenhagen Denmark
42. St. Paul Minnesota Temple
43. Santo Domingo Dominican Republic
44. Halifax Nova Scotia
45. St. George Utah Temple
46. Santiago Chile Temple
47. Campinas Brazil
48. Johannesburg South Africa
49. Tuxtla Gutierrez Mexico
50. Tampico Mexico
51. Paris France
52. Sapporo Japan
53, Seoul Korea
54. Orlando Florida (not predicted; outgoing president has only served one year, which is slightly unusual)
55. Detroit Michigan
56. Melbourne Australia
57. Columbus Ohio
58. Perth Australia
59. Twin Falls Idaho

Temples that may still get a new president this year:
1. Frankfurt Germany (the Church may hold off on calling a new president for this temple until its rededication next year)
2.  Quetzaltenango Guatemala

Well, what do you think?

Wednesday, June 15, 2016

List of cities that may soon get a temple

Here is a list of cities that may soon get a temple based on research I have done and data on the LDS Church Temples website and the LDS Church Growth Blog.

1.      New Dehli India (proposed in 1992 by Elder Neal A. Maxwell)
2.      Vilnius Lithuania Temple (proposed in 1993 by Elder M. Russell Ballard)
3.      Nairobi Kenya Temple (proposed in 1998 by President Gordon B. Hinckley)
4.      Maracaibo Venezuela Temple (proposed in 1999 by President Gordon B. Hinckley)
5.      Singapore Temple (proposed in 2000 by President Gordon B. Hinckley)
6.      Southwest Salt Lake Valley Temple (proposed in 2005 by President Gordon B. Hinckley)
7.      Managua Nicaragua Temple (proposed in 2012 by Elder Russell M. Nelson)
8.      Kasai Region Democratic Republic of the Congo (proposed in 2016 by Elder Neil L. Andersen)
9.     Lehi Utah
10.  Layton Utah
11.   Orem Utah
12.   Taylorsville Utah
13.   Sandy Utah
14.   Tooele Utah
15.  Bentonville Arkansas (Acccording to my team leader at work, who served his mission there, a temple lot has already been purchased and an announcement of that temple seems to be imminent)
16.  Virginia (Richmond or Buena Vista)
17.   Kansas (Wichita or Topeka)
18.   Sierra Leone (Freetown; may be announced due to extreme Church growth in Africa)
19    Uganda (Kampala; may be announced due to extreme growth in Africa)
20.     Cambodia (Phnom Penh)
21.     Wyoming (Cheyenne or Evanston)
22.     South Dakota (Rapid City; a favored location for me since my dad served his mission there)
23. Bolivia (Santa Cruz or La Paz. Of the two, I favor La Paz, because my favorite bishop served his mission there. At the end of each missionary's service, he gave each missionary their plaque and a Bolivia abrasso)
24.  Arizona (Safford or Thatcher)
25.  Texas (Katy or Austin)
26.  Nigeria (Lagos or Benin City; is likely due to growth in Africa)
27.  Idaho (Pocatello)
28.  Philippines (Quezon City)
29. England (Birmingham)
30. Spain (Barcelona or Malaga)
31.  California (San Bernardino)
32.  Guatemala (Guatemala City; 2nd temple)
33.  Mexico (Mexico City; 2nd temple)
34.  Chile (Santiago; 2nd temple)
35. Argentina (Buenos Aires; 2nd temple)


Thoughts?

Important Church News Items and a Significant Post by Matthew Martinich

Matthew Martinich recently did a very interesting post about how, not even halfway through 2016, more than 50 new stakes has been created already, with many more to come. To read that informational and significant posts, please see this link.

Other significant Church news has crossed my radar. Elder M. Russell Ballard of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles recently toured the Baltic Mission of the Church. For an account of what transpired during that visit, please see this article. Among the significant highlights of that article is that the president of the Baltic Mission was a missionary who served under Elder Ballard when he was a mission president, and that the president of the Ukraine Mission, which was part of Elder Ballard's tour, is Kenneth B. Packer, the grandson of President Boyd K. Packer, who dedicated Ukraine for the preaching of the gospel. See  the article for additional details.

A new initiative for the Church Educational System was announced by Elder Kim B. Clark, a General Authority Seventy who serves as Commissioner of Church Education. For an overview of all that the initiative entails, please see this link.

A new Scouting leadership training facility and complex in West Virginia is being named after President Thomas S. Monson, who appeared at the groundbreaking ceremony for the complex by means of a pre-recorded video. Representing the Church leadership in person at the event were Elders Jeffrey R. Holland (who serves on the BSA National Executive Board) and D. Todd Christofferson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, along with Young Men General President Steven W. Owen and Primary General President Joy D. Jones. For details of the services, please see this article.

Elder Neil L. Andersen recently returned from a tour of the Pacific Area of the Church. To see what he did during that visit, pleas see this article.  Elder Dale G. Renlund recently welcomed Tongan royalty to the Polynesian Cultural Center (PCC). To see what transpired at that event, please see this link.

That's what's the latest in Church News. Hope you enjoyed this post.