LDS Specific Conference AoN Ep. 594 The Cultural Hall

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TEMPLE UPDATES – THE 17 TEMPLES ANNOUNCED AT #GENERAL CONFERENCE

• Other Temple News
  • SL temple Main Street and site rendering
    • Main streets walkway will close on April 11 until Fall 2023
    • Waterproof, inspect structure, matching landscape, larger reflecting pool?
    • Render of temple square gardens, better pedestrian crossings, two half oval visitors’ centers – Christus statue?
  • Tokyo Temple Open house and Rededication announced after COVID delay
    • June 3-18
    • July 3^rd rededication (President Eyring)
    • (Pictures taken down – soon to return)
  • Temple in the City that will have Richie as a mayor in the future
    • Topped off spire April 7^th – yesterday
    • (No Moroni, no onlookers or fanfare)

100 Announced temples since 2018 (2 per month average) – 282 Total (Monson 45, Hinckley 78)

• Wellington, New Zealand
  • 3^rd Temple in New Zealand – closest to Hamilton (still closed), Auckland under Construction next to the MTC
  • 8 Stakes, 2 Districts (plus South Island) – not yet for Christchurch
  • Capital of New Zealand – Southernmost city on North Island
  • President Nelson visited and met with Jacinda Ardern in 2019
• Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo
  • 1^st in the Republic of Congo (not DRC – 3 temples there) (French colony vs Belgian colony – French spoken in both nations) – 20^th in Africa
  • 4 Stakes
  • Temple Kinshasa DRC (just on other side of the river – nearly the same city)
  • Closet nation capital cities in the world, have to travel by ferry.
  • No bridge between the two cities (16 million pop – has been long proposed and delayed)
• Barcelona, Spain
  • 3-4 Stakes, 1 district
  • 2^nd temple in Spain (Madrid)
  • Separatist region of Catalonia
  • Ask friend of the Pod – Geoff for more
• Birmingham, United Kingdom (England)
  • 3^rd temple in England and UK (still none in Scotland, Ireland, or Wales)
  • 12ish Stakes (includes Wales)
  • In-between London and Preston
• Cusco, Peru
  • 5^th Temple in Peru
  • 3 Stakes, 5 districts
  • Very old Pre-Spanish city in the Andes Mountains – near Machu Picchu, the most popular place to visit in Peru
• Maceió, Brazil
  • 15^th temple in Brazil
  • 9 Stakes
  • Northeast Brazil – Closest to Recife
• Santos, Brazil
  • 16^TH in Brazil
  • 5 stakes, 2 districts
  • You could say it’s the 4^th São Paulo area Temple
  • Port city on Coast – last three temples in Brazil announced are port cities
• San Luis Potosí, Mexico
  • 18^th in Mexico
  • 6 stakes
  • The mission is headquartered in Aguascalientes – but the city is larger.
• Mexico City Benemérito, Mexico
  • 2^nd in Mexico City, 19^th in Mexico
  • 14ish stakes
  • Benemérito (Distinguished) de las Americas– nickname of Benito Juarez (George Washington figure – first native president)
  • High school founded in 1964, closed in 2013 to be come a larger MTC campus.
    • B on the Mountain
  • My mission president – CCM president
    • Immediately after conference, gathered the missionaries, knelt on grass lead them in prayer of gratitude
    • The site is plenty large enough to build a temple one of the fields.
• Tampa, Florida
  • 4^th temple in Florida (not my first guess – closer to Orlando than Jacksonville)
  • 6-7 stakes
  • Lots of Church Farmland in Florida
• Knoxville, Tennessee
  • 3^rd temple in Tennessee
  • 5 Stakes
  • Church’s purchase of 5 acres off Kingston Pike in Farragut in October
• Cleveland, Ohio
  • 2^nd or 3^rd? in Ohio – Kirtland and Columbus
  • Church Newsroom – Kirkland Temple (not to be confused with Washington or Costco)
  • Dispel notion that we have to buy it “back”
    • “The Church of the latter-day Saints” written on the building (in 1834)
    • 1860 – Court ordered to sell to settle Joseph smith debts
    • Decades of litigation, RLDS eventually got title from Squatters rights
    • Never belonged to the Brighamite Church – not “ours” to buy (although still could happen, but show more humility)
  • It would be a historical loss to convert the temple into a modern one (it had another purpose)
  • Will the temple be built in historic Kirtland? – Exterior replica like Nauvoo?
  • 3-4 stakes
  • (Sort of a surprise since temple going in north of Pittsburgh, thought Cincinnati would come first)
• Wichita, Kansas
  • 1^st temple in Kansas (Kanas City is Missouri)
  • 4 Stakes
  • Garden City Kansas stake is now within 200 miles of a temple.
• Austin, Texas
  • 7^th temple in Texas (Fort Worth announced last time, one under construction in McAllen)
  • 8-9 Stakes
• Missoula, Montana
  • 3^rd temple in Montana
    • Helena Announced a year ago and is quickly being built
    • (Very small, so Missoula is probably needed)
  • 4 stakes
• Montpelier, Idaho
  • 6 Stakes (Idaho, one in Wyoming) – near Bear Lake
  • Closest to Star Valley Wyoming temple
  • Ninth temple in Idaho
  • Church tabernacle (interesting round design)
    • Church has been buying up property across the street (former city hall)
  • My Ancestors settled near Paris (which also has a cool tabernacle – great potential architectural influences)
• Modesto, California
  • 7 Stakes (Lodi to Merced)
  • Temples in Oakland, Sacramento, Fresno
  • 10^th in California – President Nelson said more were coming just a month ago.
  • Meetinghouse with large Baseball fields near the north stake center

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