“There is something really powerful about incremental growth,” Sheri says. “I think in the Lord’s mercy, He understood this.”
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Once the temple is complete, members in the Ulaanbaatar Mongolia District will no longer have to travel 1,800 miles to attend the temple.
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The artist said the experience was holy.
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Kelly often wondered if he’d made a lasting impact during his mission—now, he had an answer.
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A group of people gathered as the prophet’s car went past.
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The open house is scheduled to begin in April 2027.
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Members in this country currently have to cross the Congo River to get to a temple.
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Elder Neil L. Andersen will dedicate the temple on Sunday, August 17, 2025.
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President Nelson has shared specific blessings we can receive from temple worship. Here are just a few.
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While we often focus on scary “signs of the times” like wars and earthquakes, we can find comfort in the many hopeful signs of the Savior’s return.
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More than 500 attendees commemorated this significant milestone.
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“The comment caught me off guard, and it made me want to visit the temple more often.”
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These two suggestions can help you find more joy in your temple worship.
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“I wouldn’t have time to change before the last session of the day, but I felt the temple was where I needed to be.”
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After a life-changing conversion, Sery Kone played a special role at the dedication.
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Participating in the endowment takes over an hour. That longer time frame allows for several divinely designed learning experiences.
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Pres. Nelson just dedicated the Syracuse Utah Temple. Read more about his past dedications.
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One shy young woman stood at the pulpit to share her testimony of how the experience had changed her.
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After a lonely year in school, John began seeking more of heaven’s help.
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This is the key to transforming your view of attending the temple.
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Read about topics such as why temple ceremonies change over time and how the endowment ceremony compares to Masonic rituals.
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At age 21, Allison was disowned by her father. Then, only two years later, she was stranded by her first husband in an unfamiliar country.
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Those with a current temple recommend may choose to keep their printed recommend or switch to a mobile recommend.
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Two countries outside the US will have over 20 temples.
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“Listening to his talk was the last positive experience I’d had with the Church. How was it that we were now in Thailand at the same time?”
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Weekly attendance at a nearby meetinghouse has more than doubled.
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“I didn’t fully appreciate the significance of this temple feature until I visited the open house.”
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Temple worship feels different than church. Scripture offers a clue to help us understand both why and how.
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“When I received my endowment, I felt warm and tingling and kept whispering, ‘Thank you, Jesus! Thank you, Jesus!’”
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Try these simple tips to feel more at ease during your temple trips.
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In a recent video, Elder Gong explained how the Lord helps us feel His love in a sometimes isolating world.
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Start a conversation with your loved one with this simple but profound advice.
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“After reading the book myself, I feel a deeper love and appreciation for temple endowment sessions.”
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At the Toronto Ontario Temple rededication, the Apostle shared an insightful spin on this common phrase.
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President Nelson has now announced 200 temples during his 7 years as the prophet.
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Today’s announcement brings the total number of temples—operating, under construction, or announced—to 382.
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An ideal starting point for approaching the house of the Lord is recognizing it as a place of love and belonging.
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This simple shift in perspective changes the way I approach everything I do and everyone I talk to in the temple.
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“I’m too old to be playing games with you or telling jokes,” President Holland said of his testimony. “This is the truth.”
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Elder Neil L. Andersen recently shared a notable statistic about temple growth.
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With this translation, Christ becomes more than our loving and gentle Savior. He becomes a powerful leader, the commander of all heavenly and earthly forces.
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I have found that focusing on Christ brings me a sense of peace that I would not have otherwise.
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Plans call for a multi-story temple and a new meetinghouse.
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The details on the windows and carpets are stunning.
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“As I walked toward the temple, I thought, Lord, if they don’t let me in here, then I know I need to learn about this church.”
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Last week, there were more stories about posthumous Mormon baptisms -- this time it was Daniel Pearl. Pearl's parents sent an email to the Boston Globe, in which they responded to the LDS: We appreciate your good intentions but rest assured that Danny's soul was redeemed through the life that he lived and the values that he upheld. He lived as a proud Jew, died as a proud Jew and is currently facing his creator as a Jew, blessed, accepted and redeemed.
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I feel fairly certain that Dornan Willett would have been shocked to learn that his years of devotion were newsworthy. I thought of gentle Willett this week as news media once again made a story out of the practice of baptisms for the dead. His example showed me some of what I think the media coverage — as fair-minded as some of the coverage has tried to be — has missed.
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Calling proxy baptism in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints "eccentric, not offensive," Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby wrote recently that "Mormons undergoing peaceful rituals in their own temples aren't on the list" of the "very real, very dangerous enemies" to Judaism. "In Judaism, conversion after death is a concept without meaning," wrote Jacoby, who is Jewish. "No after-the-fact rites in this world can possibly change the Jewishness of the men, women, children and babies whom the Nazis, in their obsessive hatred, singled out for extermination.
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In a Republican presidential campaign marked by controversies over birth control, moon bases and the proper means of transporting a dog, it was perhaps inevitable that incantations spoken on behalf of the dead would get their turn: In a gesture widely covered by the U.S. media, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel has called on Mitt Romney to denounce the Mormon practice of posthumously baptizing non-Mormons - Jewish Holocaust victims, in particular. Here in Canada, former Canadian Jewish Congress president Bernie Farber is publicizing the issue. In a column (see above), he writes that, "the effort at posthumous conversion stings our collective Jewish soul."
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A New York Times columnist has apologized for using an anti-Mormon slur about LDS undergarments on Twitter. On Wednesday during the Arizona Republican debate, Charles Blow's Twitter feed said:
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Toward the end of May, 1970, I stood waist high in water in a baptismal font of a temple in Hamilton, New Zealand, while the name of my deceased father was read aloud. Moments later, on his behalf, I was buried in the biblically mandated full-immersion baptism that is so powerfully symbolic of rebirth and entry into the kingdom of God. That first visit to a temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints --and my first experience of what Mormons call “baptism for the dead”--was one of the most intensely significant religious experiences of my life.
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