• 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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