- New Missions Announced for 2024
- 36 Additional Missions to be organized
- Necessitated by an Increase in Missionaries since the Pandemic
- 2021 – 56,000
- 2022 – 62,500
- 2023 – 73,000
- Largest increase of new missions since 2013 when 58 were announced
- Total of 405 missions (85,000 serving in 2014), 411 in 2015.
- Missions net decline from 2018 to 2020
- Increase the total of missions to 450 – most at any time.
- Average missionaries in Mission 210 (2014) to 160 (2024)
- 6 previously closed missions will be reopened
- Modesto, Tallahassee, SLC East, Sendai, Hamburg, Porto
- Missions with Large Geographies being divided
- Missoula, El Paso, Charleston, Manaus South, Cochabamba South, La Serena, Tecuman, Mexicali, Antananarivo
- New Missions for Large Populations
- Bangkok, Phnom Penh, Nairobi, Port Harcourt, Lima Northeast (7th mission), Dallas (4th), Henderson (3rd), Santo Domingo (3rd), Quito West (3rd), Puebla East (3rd), Accra (3rd), Kinshasa (3rd)
- Most new missions in Africa for one year, many in outlying areas
- Bo, Takoradi, Calabar, Kolwezi
- Utah county – at least 1 companionship per stake
- Saratoga Spring, Spanish Fork
- 3 new in the Philippines (now 26 missions)
- Brazil up to 37, Mexico up to 34.
- Matt Martinich’s analysis of impact of birth rates on missionary numbers.
- Necessitated by an Increase in Missionaries since the Pandemic
- 36 Additional Missions to be organized
- Mail Bag
- Missoula Montana Temple
- Colorado Spring Colorado Temple
- Recommendation
- Temple Open House
- Lima Perú Los Olivos Temple
- Media day on November 6th
- Open House November 10th to December 9th
- Third City in the World to have two temples in its boundaries
- After South Jordan and Provo. Will be followed by St George, Guatemala City, São Paulo, Mexico City, Santiago
- 49 Stakes in the Lima Metro Area
- First temple located in La Molina, this temple is in San Martín de Porres (not Los Olivos). But olive trees in gardens
- Temple Design
- Two-story, 47k sq. ft, white granite, simple art deco design.
- First large temple design to not have an angel Moroni in many decades.
- At the time the lack of Moroni was attributed to the absence of a tower. There was no tower because the temple looked very tall next to the buildings around it (semiurban feel)
- At the time it was described as harkening back to the Cardston/Laie/Mesa style with flat roofs. Similar to Solomons’s Temple.
- Nearly all parking underground, two housing buildings, Olive Trees in the Gardens – former site of a Meetinghouse and institute building.
- Interior Photos Released
- Baptismal Font appears to be the first perfectly square font
- Stained Glass with cantuta flower (climbing trumpet, national flower) and abstract tendril with leaves.
- Central staircase in the center of the temple, cherry wood doors and millwork.
- Pink and green flowers and olive branches on the ceilings
- Lima Perú Los Olivos Temple
- Temple Site Revealed
- Viña del Mar Chile Temple
- Temple site announced in the downtown area.
- Current site of the Viña del Mar stake center and mission offices.
- Located next to the Museo de Artes Decorativas Palacio Rioja
- Follow up: Winchester Virginia Temple
- Viña del Mar Chile Temple
- Temple Rendering Released
- Grand Rapids Michigan Temple
- Site announced last year – former Christ Community Church location
- First building footprint of this type in the U.S.
- Grand Rapids Michigan Temple
- Temple President Announced
- Deseret Peak Utah Temple
- Construction/Approval Process
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