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Temple Update

Dedications

    • Washington DC
      • August 14 by President Nelson
        • First Trip since the beginning of COVID
        • Video from visitor’s center – social media
          • Emphasis of ordinances inside, not the number or the architecture.
        • Accompanied by First Presidency
          • Three apostles: Gong, Christopherson, Cook
            • Gong: Special Assistant to undersecretary of state in 1985
            • Christopherson: Clerked for a federal judge in 1972
            • Cook: involved open house tours with VIPs
            • Sister Amy Wright: attended temple with parents as a your girl
          • 18th operating temple: dedicated in 1974
            • Back then First Lady Ford attended the open house
              • President Ford had planned to come, but was under controversy for Pardoning Nixon
            • Quoting President Kimball in the rededicatory Prayer:
              • On that sacred occasion, President Kimball gratefully recalled: “Thou didst cause this land to be … settled by people who founded a great nation with an inspired constitution guaranteeing freedom in which there could come the glorious Restoration of the gospel and the Church of thy Beloved Son.”
            • Upcoming Open house:
              • Hamilton New Zealand
                • Begins August 26th
                • Billboards put up around the island, Auckland, nearby highways
                • Rededication in October, closed since 2018
                  • Now two More temples announced for the new Zealand
                • Temple Name Changes
                  • Teton River Idaho
                    • Already known a couple months ago, official announcement
                    • Locals call it the “Walmart Temple”
                  • Birmingham England Temple
                    • Previously was the Birmingham United Kingdom Temple (the article doesn’t state that)
                  • Upcoming Groundbreaking
                    • Lubumbashi Democratic Republic of the Congo Temple
                      • Aug 20
                      • Matthew L. Carpenter
                      • Second in DRC