tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786908254617003646.post7718260780455310719..comments2024-03-28T17:29:15.006-06:00Comments on Growth of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church): Eight New Temples Announced - AnalysisMatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16030323360917985701noreply@blogger.comBlogger104125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786908254617003646.post-84088878829759893602020-04-13T12:32:14.238-06:002020-04-13T12:32:14.238-06:00@James Anderson
Good to know about the new more r...@James Anderson<br /><br />Good to know about the new more reliable internet connections coming. Will be cool to see all the benefits it does to family history. Johnathan Reese Whitinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05271748150823074792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786908254617003646.post-7605105212326099982020-04-13T09:57:17.282-06:002020-04-13T09:57:17.282-06:00Those oral histories, along with the family trees ...Those oral histories, along with the family trees generated from them later after the recordings get to a place where they can be listened to, are placed in the 'Genealogies' area in FamilySearch. The trees are there with the recording once input.<br /><br />I have heard over 16 million names may come out of this but someone else said at least triple that.<br /><br />This is an area also with little reliable Internet access in even the cities, so the new low-earth-orbit satellites are going to be a major help to the Church and its members, both for family history and for other Church purposes. Will be as good or better than wired connections. Coastal and island areas that get hit by hurricanes will benefit as if you are connected that way you still will have Internet when all the ground-based stuff is out.James Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12831340842937216806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786908254617003646.post-73991197916132516402020-04-12T19:26:09.809-06:002020-04-12T19:26:09.809-06:00Elder Mutombo was the coordinator for Family Histo...Elder Mutombo was the coordinator for Family History in Congo before he became a mission president. They were employing 18 teams including one lead by the first Congolese area seventy who is a school teacher by trade sending them deep into the bush where no missionaries have gone, places you have to walk a footpath to get to interview village elders to record oral histories before they are lost. There are lots of angles to preserve records that need to be undertaken. John Pack Lamberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05086707132348039415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786908254617003646.post-33577601838639262442020-04-10T00:17:03.782-06:002020-04-10T00:17:03.782-06:00I live in Brigham City and the temple is becoming ...I live in Brigham City and the temple is becoming busier over time. Several times endowments have been full, sealings have been busy at times and I understand the youth are filling up the font. coachodeepshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08168822498180000486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786908254617003646.post-41778216223706118302020-04-09T20:07:55.667-06:002020-04-09T20:07:55.667-06:00Look also at the 'Free 2020 Archives' in t...Look also at the 'Free 2020 Archives' in the dropdown under Archives on rootstech.org, another location for the two already known is 'Sessions for Latter-day Saints', and the Managing Directors Roundtable is the one where I got much of this from save for the emerging tech part which will help with what is heard in this.James Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12831340842937216806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786908254617003646.post-41420354107599904472020-04-09T14:10:37.919-06:002020-04-09T14:10:37.919-06:00James A., I've been trying to remember where I...James A., I've been trying to remember where I heard a similar story, though this family's records didn't go as far back- finally I realized it was in Elder Stevenson's presentation for RootsTech (scroll down to the section titled "Pass down family names):<br /><br />https://www.thechurchnews.com/leaders-and-ministry/2020-02-29/rootstech-elder-stevenson-family-discovery-day-spirit-of-elijah-175754twinnumerounohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05339551175116474947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786908254617003646.post-30456947851430762662020-04-09T04:12:34.883-06:002020-04-09T04:12:34.883-06:00@James Anderson
That's a pretty cool story ab...@James Anderson<br /><br />That's a pretty cool story about the Chinese member's genealogy going back so far. Johnathan Reese Whitinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05271748150823074792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786908254617003646.post-76808538003424503352020-04-08T22:17:12.254-06:002020-04-08T22:17:12.254-06:00A lot of other things are in play that relate to t...A lot of other things are in play that relate to temples, and some of it is family history work.<br /><br />They need more who can go on missions to film records, we saw the cinderblock room with Sierra Leone's 2010 Census which has been preserved for he future when it can be released, but for every one of those there are hundreds more places like that which will rot away before we get to them.<br /><br />Then there is activation, that would mean many more worthy to attend and if they go fequently enough that would necessitate even more, especially in Utah. A general authority said a year ago in my stake that 1/3 of the Wasatch Front is active member, 1/3 less-active, and 1/3 not a member. If we activated even a percentage of the less active, along with missionary baptisms, that definitely would call for more.<br /><br />A general authority visiting a stake for its conference walked into a family history center and there were boxes and boxes filled with the 'My Family' booklet waiting to be keyed in, in some places the Family Tree app can't do its job until we get a good core database of deceased persons in the Family Tree. This had not been done due to the generally crappy Internet speeds and service. In some places they have smartphones but no data so they just use the phone as a phone only.<br /><br />That may be about to change. SpaceX's Starlink, a similar plan by Amazon and others, will have low-orbit satellite flotillas, speeds will be way up, and there will be multiple birds the size of half your refrigerator over you and within range, with response times good enough for gaming. Right now if you were playing a shooting game, you would be shot before your shot hit the enemy shooter. The redundancy of birds means that if one craps out, gets hit by a meteoroid, or even space junk hits and ruins it, you will still be able to use it.<br /><br />That has monumental implications for everything. And not just family history although that will be one of the bigger impacts.<br /><br />Where I heard that I also heard Kevin Wong, a general authority seventy from Hong Kong, say that his family just did the baptism for an ancestor born in 2000 BC, the worker thought there had been a mistake until they sa 'BC' after the year, that was in the Hong Kong Temple, built in 1997. He asked his nonmember father if he had anything, and his father gave it all to him--150+ generations.<br /><br />James Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12831340842937216806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786908254617003646.post-26899682854996224062020-04-08T20:17:21.022-06:002020-04-08T20:17:21.022-06:00Navajo Reservation Receives Food and Supplies From...Navajo Reservation Receives Food and Supplies From Bishops' Central StorehouseDonations assist the elderly during COVID-19 outbreak<br /><br />https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/navajo-reservation-receives-food-supplies-bishops-central-storehouseChris D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05948306098284454259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786908254617003646.post-56036412018654717532020-04-08T19:53:29.362-06:002020-04-08T19:53:29.362-06:00Hwllo again, everyone! I became aware of some new ...Hwllo again, everyone! I became aware of some new informatoin late last night point to the idea that President Nelson's more immediate goal could be for the Church to have at least 300 temples announced by sometime in 2025. So I ran some calculations as a result of that, and if President Nelson continues to announce 8 temples every six months, there will be over 300 temples in various phases directly following the announcement of new temples in October 2024. And a gradual and steady increase in that manner will easily result in a significant increase in the total number of temples if, as anticipated to be the case, President Nelson serves as Church President for the next decade or two.James G. Stokeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13331619300918542708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786908254617003646.post-54877903304520779942020-04-08T13:56:49.705-06:002020-04-08T13:56:49.705-06:00What is an acceleration of temple announcements is...What is an acceleration of temple announcements is a matter of perspective. We are use to what President Hinckley did in the late 1990s with the goal to have 100 operating temples by 2000. But in 1980, under the administration of Spencer W. Kimball, they announced an acceleration of temple building and building smaller temples that was viewed as being just as significant. <br /><br />With only 20 temples operating, they were suddenly announcing 4, 6, 8 temples a year and pretty much doubled number of temples in just 10 years. That was unthinkable at the time. In the 1970s began to see at least one temple proposed or under construction all the time.Bkfarnbachjourneyshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00899680840301599349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786908254617003646.post-56221057762815434772020-04-08T11:39:56.027-06:002020-04-08T11:39:56.027-06:00As far as I can see the virus will be present in t...As far as I can see the virus will be present in the southern hemisphere until at least September, at least in Chile and some neighbors. In Chile now everyone using public transportation must wear a mask at all times.<br /><br />I was thinking that there will be a limit of 50 or 100 for meetings for a while. I wonder how will the Church operate in such conditions. Splitting sacrament meetings or perhaps asking people to attend on different weeks.<br /><br />Just a few months ago I was talking to some friends about the Church transmitting Sunday meetings online, at least on a per stake level or so. Mostly for those who can't attend, but little did I suspect this pandemic would strike.Rodrigo Jofrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03343689681373410315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786908254617003646.post-23091044264840160502020-04-08T06:46:08.775-06:002020-04-08T06:46:08.775-06:00On my last point, the Book of Revelation link is w...On my last point, the Book of Revelation link is why Moroni has a trumpet. Joseph Smith never mentions seeing Moroni with a trumpet, having the trumpet comes from the Book of Revelation passage.John Pack Lamberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05086707132348039415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786908254617003646.post-85550934330708227182020-04-08T06:45:02.313-06:002020-04-08T06:45:02.313-06:00Prior to the building of temples in the 1980s I be...Prior to the building of temples in the 1980s I believe under half of temples had a statue of the angle Moroni. There are complex issues involved in putting up the statue. On the other hand the old chapel of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Washington, D. C. in the 1930s had a statue of the angle Moroni on top of it. <br /><br />I can see not having it for cost saving reasons. However in the case of the Paris France Temple that was clearly not the reason. They built a visitors center there which included a Christus statue. The rreasons to not have a spire or Angel Moroni have to do with asthetics, and are probably better understood than some because Bishop Causse was so involved in the matter.<br /><br />I always like to point out that in the early days the statue was not so much conceptualized as Moroni, but as the angle in John's book of revelation, understood to be Moroni.John Pack Lamberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05086707132348039415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786908254617003646.post-49865615972098652022020-04-08T06:30:04.171-06:002020-04-08T06:30:04.171-06:00Another issue to consider is that President Hinckl...Another issue to consider is that President Hinckley did not really start announcing temples in a real fast way until after he had been president of the Church for longer than President Nelson has been president. There is always a possibility that President Nelson will increase the pace at which he announces temples.John Pack Lamberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05086707132348039415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786908254617003646.post-92094225195341756602020-04-08T06:25:11.674-06:002020-04-08T06:25:11.674-06:00Germany had its first two temples built simultaneo...Germany had its first two temples built simultaneously, but to be fair it was not one country until several years after they were completed. Thus Canada was the first nation with 2 temples since Germany did not reunite until just over a month after Canada got its second temple in Toronto.<br /><br />If we ignore the US then DR Congo may be the country to move to its second temple the fastest. Canada is on the order of 65 years, Mexico and Brazil about 20 years, a bit more for Guatemala and the United Kingdom about 40 years. Honduras may be the next fastest but it was still several years from Tegucigalpa's dedication to the announcement of a second temple in Honduras. Colombia and Ecuador both have over a decade, and Peru it is I believe over 30 years from the dedication of the Lima Temple to the announcement of Trujillo. Even Nigeria is was over 10 years from Aba's dedication to the announcement of Lagos. <br /><br />In the US Tennessee had its first two temples in process simultaneously, as did New York.John Pack Lamberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05086707132348039415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786908254617003646.post-1625834444729174792020-04-07T23:17:13.067-06:002020-04-07T23:17:13.067-06:00@Christopher Nicholson
I wonder if, due to Pres. ...@Christopher Nicholson<br /><br />I wonder if, due to Pres. Nelson's focus on getting the most out of "the widow's mite," they're leaving some of the Moronis off to save a bit of money. <br /><br />There's also the possibility of the Brethren wanting to emphasize that we don't worship Moroni, and that his symbol is only one of many for our Church (with more emphasis on Christ, especially with the new logo). <br /><br />Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing the Liahona put on a few more Temples, as right now it's only on one, Cardston (and Liahona High School in Tonga). <br /><br />They might also figure that leaving the Angel off will save a slight amount of time to fast-track some of these new ones, and they can always add the statue later as they did to several Temples back in the early 2000s.<br /><br />Thoughts?<br />Johnathan Reese Whitinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05271748150823074792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786908254617003646.post-78246918442681112422020-04-07T23:06:01.148-06:002020-04-07T23:06:01.148-06:00I've even gone with my nephew down to Bountifu...I've even gone with my nephew down to Bountiful to avoid Ogden baptismal wait times - still full there but not as long of a wait.Johnathan Reese Whitinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05271748150823074792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786908254617003646.post-76027754257981107902020-04-07T23:03:36.431-06:002020-04-07T23:03:36.431-06:00@Alex
Ogden is always packed, and they've had...@Alex<br /><br />Ogden is always packed, and they've had the three name limit on baptismal names for the last few years (plus a two+ hour wait to even get into the font most weeks at busy times). Sealings and Endowments are usually full, too. The only ordinance I rarely have to wait for there are Initiatories (so I tend to do those a lot). Layton and Syracuse will do a good job of reducing the crowding.<br /><br />Brigham is getting busier as the years go by, according to my friend who lives up there and my own occasional trips there when I want to avoid Ogden crowds. <br /><br />It'll be nice to have two other Temples as options close by. Johnathan Reese Whitinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05271748150823074792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786908254617003646.post-81266797523218781582020-04-07T21:26:48.371-06:002020-04-07T21:26:48.371-06:00In some cases, a Moroni statue makes the differenc...In some cases, a Moroni statue makes the difference between "attractive but generic little church building that nobody will look twice at" and "interesting building that will make people stop and be curious". I really hope they're not being gradually phased out.Christopher Nicholsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00582245548922025033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786908254617003646.post-83555627908898217412020-04-07T21:22:54.016-06:002020-04-07T21:22:54.016-06:00The Logan temple parking lot is usually full with ...The Logan temple parking lot is usually full with additional cars around the block, but I've never had to wait for a session or been in a full one. I sometimes had to wait an hour or more when I did baptisms.Christopher Nicholsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00582245548922025033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786908254617003646.post-62526873539891921212020-04-07T21:00:18.368-06:002020-04-07T21:00:18.368-06:00I think for Syracuse, the Church had increased att...I think for Syracuse, the Church had increased attendance at Ogden. Expanding to the north wouldn't work because Brigham City isn't very busy, so expanding south was the way to go since Bountiful was also busy. Layton was a good midline, but my aunt who lives in Clinton was bummed when it was announced, since she uses public transportation, and the public transit across I-15 is apparently terrible. Syracuse is good for those who can't get across I-15 to Ogden or Layton very well.<br /><br />I don't remember who said it, possibly Matt, but it seems like the Church is happy to facilitate Utah temple attendance by cutting the size of temple districts down to 20-40 stakes per temple, in an effort to get more Utahns to go regularly. I know right now, in places like Oquirrh Mountain, there are limits on how many names one person can do, and more temples can let youth get baptized more than twice and adults do sealings more than once a quarter, for example. I'm excited to see if we can sustain that, and get more people attending the House of the Lord regularly in Utah.Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03356432858705156856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786908254617003646.post-76870417570748611762020-04-07T20:32:45.340-06:002020-04-07T20:32:45.340-06:00Copper used in building materials oxidizes, ao it ...Copper used in building materials oxidizes, ao it goes green fairly quickly, by the time they dedicated Las Vegas, that one's roof, which is copper, had alrady turned greenm so the design allows for that here.<br /><br />Layton and Syracuse are adjacent cities, so it points to putting temples every few miles. North Orem or Lindon/Pleasant Grove, Cottonwood or close to that to the south in Salt Lake County, Herriman, near North Ogden, those four at least could see one down the line.<br /><br />James Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12831340842937216806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786908254617003646.post-18485252467696737522020-04-07T17:36:22.558-06:002020-04-07T17:36:22.558-06:0070,000 sq ft Tooele Valley Utah and 44,405 sq ft B...70,000 sq ft Tooele Valley Utah and 44,405 sq ft Bangkok Thailand aren't going to have a Moroni, but 19,860 sq ft Durban South Africa and 16,100 sq ft Winnepeg Manitoba did get them, so I don't see evidence of a "you must be this big to get a Moroni." I think a lot of it is the style. The traditional big spire temples (e.g., Abidjan Cote de Ivorie, Rio de Janeiro) seem to be getting Moronis, while the small dome tops (e.g., Praia Cabo Verde, Tooele Valley), Eastern religion inspired (India, Cambodia, and Thailand) and spireless (Paris, new Lima) temples are the ones not getting Moronis. Africa I think hasn't gotten them consistently but they're experimenting with the fiberglass for Abidjan, so that may be a trend if spires are a thing in that batch of temple designs.Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03356432858705156856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786908254617003646.post-73190327150257705932020-04-07T17:28:49.437-06:002020-04-07T17:28:49.437-06:00Does anyone know when full-time missionaries will ...Does anyone know when full-time missionaries will get their domestic reassignments? And whether or not they will travel to the field or stay at home remotely until coronavirus clears up a bit? Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17772316795997928423noreply@blogger.com