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Eight New Temples — So I’m Even MORE Frustrated!

Eight New Temples — So I’m Even MORE Frustrated!

Last updated on: October 6, 2019 at 2:27 pm by Dan Peterson

Eight New Temples — So I’m Even MORE Frustrated! 2019-10-06T14:27:33-06:00 Dan Peterson

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The still relatively new Payson Utah Temple is a very visible landmark at the south end of Utah Valley.

Tonight, in the women’s session of the 2019 semi-annual General Conference of the Church — and I think that the place and time of the announcement is not insignificant — President Russell M. Nelson announced new temples for

Bacolod, Philippines

Cobán, Guatemala

Freetown, Sierra Leone

Port Moresby, Papua, New Guinea

Bentonville, Arkansas

McAllen, Texas

Taylorsville, Utah

And Orem, Utah!

I confess that that last one really caught me by surprise.

Moreover, a friend suggests an intriguing possible site in Orem, which really doesn’t have a lot of available open space left. It turns out that there is a large tract of Church-owned land essentially within walking distance of my home, with an old and currently unused chapel sitting on just one portion of it. That would be astonishing. I mean, we’re also literally just around the corner from the site of Utah Valley University’s future art museum. This is becoming a pretty cool neighborhood — and a temple wouldn’t exactly ruin it.

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I once had the dream of doing an endowment session in every temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

And then the Church began its modern period of intensive temple-building. I remember one day when President Gordon B. Hinckley and President Boyd K. Packer each dedicated a temple on the same morning. I recall screaming out in frustration, “Stop! I can’t keep up with this!”

More recently, my goal has been to attend a session in every temple in Utah.

Now I’m thinking that I may have to content myself with performing an endowment in every temple in Utah County.

Sigh.

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