781 Spring '24 #GenConf Temple Predictions

Temple Open House Begins
- Manti Utah Temple
  - Media day on March 11th
  - Open House through April 5th
    - (Long lines on the weekends)
  - Because of the Staircases between the ordinance rooms, wheelchairs can’t be accommodated in these rooms.
    - It appears that the temple in Ephraim will primarily serve those patrons
  - Interior Photos
    - New curtains and Film screens with hanging projectors added to the ordinance rooms
    - Cushions added to the old benches
    - Large television screens added to the Terrestrial Room.
  - Rooms
    - Chapel with a 1906 a copy of Benard Plockhorst’s Jesus Blessing the Children – Baby Jesus with a man face
    - Hallway – Isaac Morely framed green apron.
    - Baptistry: Robert Shepard
      - Scenes from Baptism of Jesus, Oliver and Joseph, and the waters of Mormon
      - Dove painted on the ceiling above the font.
      - Scriptural verses from:
        Matthew 3: 13-15
        III Nephi 19:12-14
        Pearl of Great Price 56:70
        Not the first edition
    - Creation Room: C.C.A Christensen mural from 1886
      - Danish Convert in 1850 who studied at the Royal Art Institute of Copenhagen
      - Murals preserved despite being painted onto plaster. Layers of dirt, grime and plaster were removed.
      - Attempted to visualize the creation accounts in Genesis
      - Dinosaurs in creation murals
      - Copied out of the book: The world before the deluge
    - Garden Room: Robert Shepherd mural from 1944
      - Features many animals and the trees from the garden of eden
    - World Room Murals: Minerva Tiechert mural from 1947 – painted on canvas
      - First woman to be commissioned to paint a temple mural
      - Intimidated by the 60 ft long room, 24 ft high.
      - Contracted for $4000, including cost of the paint
      - Being only 5’2, 117 lbs, she found it exhausting to climb scaffolding all day.
        She fell off and had to miss a few hours to see a doctor for her arm, but returned after a few hours.
      - She set a self imposed deadline of a month to finish, even though the church officials expected it to take a year.
      - They had to take breaks when an endowment session moved through the room.
      - With the help of some assistants, they finished the 120 figures and 4000 square feet in 23 working days.
      - She returned on some trips during the following year ot make touchups.
      - Back Wall: Tower of Babel
      - South Wall (Windows) – Biblical history in four parts
        Abraham in Cannon
        Joseph in Egypt
        Moses, golden calf, and tablets
        Pilgrims sailing
      - North Wall – Large Scene of the Gentiles
        Easu
        The Orient
        Crusaders
        Columbus
        Shadowy figures
      - Front Wall – Both sides entering into the American Continent
        “Indian Brave” with arms outstretched
        Zion in the Nexus – grid of Manti City
    - Celestial room connected to a sealing room that once served as the Holy of Holies.
    - Spiral Staircases and Assembly room
  - Waterproofing the walls and foundation of the building was the priority of the renovation
    - Water from the hillside had been seeping into the walls and into the sealing rooms.
    - Emily (H)utt thinks that not a lot changed from the inside of the temple
- Urdaneta Philippines Temple
  - Media Day on March 12th
  - Open house through March 30th
  - Interior Photos
    - Golden sand granite exterior
    - Elements of Asian and Spanish Design
    - National flower of the philippines: Sampaguita
Temple Groundbreaking
- San Luis Potosí México
  - March 9th presided by Sean Douglas
  - One of 24 temples in Mexico
  - Temple will also serve members in Aguascalientes, Fresnillo, Zacatecas and León that currently travel to Mexico City or Guadalajara.
Temple Site Announced
- Savai’i Samoa Temple
  - 5.5-acre in Fataloa, a subarea of Salelologa village on the southeastern edge of the island of Savai’i.
    - This site showed up in the meetinghouse locator months ago
  - Single story temple of 29,630 square feet
Temple Presidents and Matrons for new Temples
- San Pedro Sula Honduras Temple
  - From Tegucigalpa Honduras
- Antofagasta Chile Temple
  - From Antofagasta
Local Media Coverage
- Vancouver Washington Temple
  - Some neighbors not pleased
- Modesto California Temple
  - Missionary couples available for visitors and cookies every wednesday for the workers.
Kirtland temple reactions
- Mormonland interview
- Inside Out
- John C Hamer reaction
- COC zoom meeting – gospel tangents
  - Forgot to mention last podcast: Nauvoo Property Map
Area News
- Church Acquires land to build a Central Africa Area Office in Nairobi
- Venezuela will be realigned to the Caribbean Area, moving from the South America Northwest Area.
  - Number of stakes will nearly double in the Caribbean area.
  - Only area of the church without a temple announced or under construction
General Conference Temple Predictions
- Temple Bracket
- Matt Martinich’s map
  - Temple Prediction Matrix
- My Top Predictions
  - Cincinnati Ohio – Property acquired last year in Mason on Montgomery Rd
  - Flagstaff AZ
  - Herriman UT or Lehi UT or Spanish Fork UT
  - Price UT
  - Evanston WY
  - El Paso TX
  - Honolulu Hawaii
  - Santiago Dominican Republic
  - Sana Ana El Salvador
  - Florianopolis/Sao Jose Brazil
  - Rosario Argentina
  - Punta Arenas Chile
  - Lima Peru #3
  - Medellin Colombia
  - Kampala Uganda
  - Glasgow Scotland
  - Taichung Taiwan
  - Hobart Australia
  - Wildcard: Maracaibo Venezuela

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