846 Temple Ticker Fall 24 Predictions

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• Temple Dedications
  • Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Temple – #196
    • September 15th, presided by Dieter Uchtdorf

• • • • Theme of Bridges (as opposed to walls in McAllen)
    • Temple District includes 10 Stakes
    • Dedicatory Prayer
  • Mendoza Argentina Temple – #197
    • September 22nd, presided by Gary Stevenson – phyc – Ronald Rasband (Kearon devotional switcheroo as well) Where is Gary?
    • 4th of seven temples planned for Argentina
      • 2025 will be the 100 year anniversary of Melvin J Ballard likening the church in Argentina and South America as an oak tree.
    • Temple District includes 8 stakes and 2 districts
    • Dedicatory Prayer
• Temple Dedication Schedule Change
  • Tallahassee Florida Temple (#202)
    • Only One dedicatory session presided by Patrick Keaon on December 8th at 10 am
    • Same change happened to Casper Wyoming (#201)
• Temple Open Houses Begin
  • San Pedro Sula Honduras Temple
    • Media day on September 9th with area presidency
    • Open House through 28th
    • Interior Photos Released
      • Turquoise and Greens, Yellow, Orange, Reds.
  • Deseret Peak Utah Temple
    • Media day on September 23rd with Susan Porter and others
    • Open House through October 19th
    • Interior Photos released
      • Compare to preliminary renderings initially released
      • salt grass, lupine flower, and cliff rose
• Temple Groundbreakings
  • Wichita Kansas Temple
    • September 7th, presided by Steven R. Bangeter
  • Tarawa Kiribati
    • Announced for November 2nd, presided by Jeremy R Jaggi
    • Temple in front of Parliament building, church will bring in construction workers and ship modules and a crane to the island.
• Temple Rendering Released
  • Vancouver Washington Temple
    • Another Burley/McKinney design!
    • Environmental study for road realignment.
• Temple Site Announced
  • Tacoma Washington
    • 11 acre site In Federal Way, along I-5 Freeway, across from the Wild Waves Theme/Water Park
    • Multi-story temple of 45,000 sq. ft.
    • Sound Transit recently purchased a Mega-church in the area and will demolish it for a maintenance facility. Tacoma Dome Link rail extension will likely run along I-5 by 2035.

Temple Construction Updates

• Salt Lake Temple
  • New interior renderings and construction photos released
  • Compare all the renderings previously released.
    • Rooms that are mostly preserved and restored: Celestial room, two original sealing rooms, the large assembly room on the fifth floor, the four stone spiral staircases in each corner tower and most of the terrestrial room (veil room).
    • Rooms with significant changes: Endowment rooms, Baptistry
    • New North Annex will be over 100,000 sq ft, have two new baptistries, and 20 sealing rooms (total of 22, up from 13).
  • FAQ
  • Historic Preservationists lament the loss of many original elements of the temple.
  • Photos of the interior renovation including the rarely photographed tiffany windows.
  • Virtual Open House Job Posting – Senior Project Manager
• Kona Hawaii Temple
  • Temple is nearly demolished
  • Original rendering was altered because the local government denied higher steeple height.
• Cleveland Ohio Temple
  • Modular Unit assembly begins
• Cody Wyoming – It’s happening.
  • Preliminary construction work happening.
  • Sam Penrod says a groundbreaking will be announced.
• Wellington New Zealand Temple
  • Former Porirua mayor is supporting the temple while others are calling it an eyesore.
  • The consent hearings will be held across three days in November
• Osaka Japan Temple
  • Elder Cook visits future temple site

• General Conference Temple Predictions October 2024
  • Temple Bracket
  • Lds Growth Blog predictions
    • Temple Matrix of most predicted
  • Top 10
    • Kampala Uganda
    • Port Harcourt Nigeria
    • Lome Togo
    • Lima Peru (South)
    • Santa Ana El Salvador
    • Santiago Dominican Republic
    • Southern Chile (Valdivia, Osorno, Puerto Montt, Punta Arenas)
    • Flagstaff (or Prescott) Arizona
    • New Jersey (Metro New York)
    • Price Utah
    • Honorable Mentions:

• • • • Tirana Albania
      • Abuja Nigeria
      • Lilongwe Malawi
      • Machala Ecuador
      • Sorocabo Brazil
      • Little Rock Arkansas
      • Evanston (Fort Bridger) Wyoming
      • North Ogden Utah
      • Spanish Fork Utah
      • Sharon Vermont

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