861 Temple Ticker – You should REALLY start to trust us

• Temple Dedications 
  • San Pedro Sula Honduras Temple – #198
    • Dedicated October 13th, presided by Dale Renlund
      • Sticking to tradition, Renlund spoke about flowing waters, which can come from rain and floods.
    • Dedicatory Prayer
    • Temple District: 15 Stakes, 1 district 
      • First stake in Honduras was created in 1977, missionary work started in 1954
  • Salvador Brazil Temple – #199
    • Dedicated October 20th by Neil Andersen 
    • “A temple in a city named for the Savior is less important than having the temple dedicated in a place where ‘so many wonderful people have the Savior — ‘Salvador’ — written in their hearts.’”
    • Dedicatory Prayer
    • Temple District: 14 Stakes, 3 district 
• Dedications announced
  • Simplification of Dedication procedures, starting with Deseret Peak
    • One dedicatory session held at 4pm and broadcast to meetinghouses
    • The session will be rebroadcast at 7pm.
    • President Nelson will preside over the 200th temple dedication.
  • Auckland New Zealand Temple
    • Dedication: April 13, 2025, presided by Patrick Kearon (10 am)
    • Media Day on February 24th
    • Open House: February 27th to March 22nd
    • NZ podcast uses the image of this temple
  • Toronto Ontario Temple
    • Rededication on March 23, 2025 presided by Jeffery Holland 
    • Media Day: February 12th
    • Open House: February 13th to March 8th.
• Temple Open House Begins
  • Tallahassee Florida Temple
    • After Hurricane Helene passed through as a Category 4, the Open house continues as planned starting November 4th to 23rd
    • Kathy and Neil Andersen and other 70s lead a media day on October 28th
      • Kathy Andersen is a native Floridian with church ancestors from 1898.
    • Interior Photos Released
      • Gold!, blue and greens
      • Features live oak, two varieties of magnolias, and crape myrtles
      • Historic geometric tile patterns from the mid-1800s, such as leaf lattice, palm fronds, magnolia flowers and interlocking key patterns.
      • Sunrise patterns over doors and windows and arched glass transom in the celestial room.
• Temple Groundbreaking
  • Cody Wyoming Temple
    • Unannounced groundbreaking took place on September 27th.
• Temple Construction updates
  • Bakersfield California Temple
    • Church Released several renderings 
    • Residents of the 55+ community hold opposition meeting
    • Starry night 
  • McKinney Texas Temple
    • Town of Fairview raising money for a defense fund in preparation of a anticipated lawsuit to defend zoning laws. 
    • The Church has not decided a course of action as of yet.
  • Lethbridge Alberta Temple
    • Preliminary Construction Begins 
    • No groundbreaking yet
  • Cali Colombia Temple
    • Demolition of a former French High School scheduled for January to August 2025. 
    • Rendering and site announcement made in 2021
  • Farmington New Mexico Temple
    • Temple President and Matron Called
    • Construction finishing up
  • Salt Lake Temple
    • Descendants of stone mason, James Staples, gathered to commemorate work on temple

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