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Plans Unveiled for Salt Lake Temple Renovation

Details and project renderings have been released regarding the upcoming closure and renovation of the historic Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Mormon Tabernacle Choir Sings at 2017 US Presidential Inauguration

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir performed during the 58th Presidential Inauguration in the nation’s capital Friday. The choir was accompanied by “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band as they sang during the swearing-in ceremony of President Donald J. Trump and Vice President Michael R. Pence.

“We are incredibly happy to have the Mormon Tabernacle Choir back again at the inauguration. It is a part of America's history, and the music is incredibly beautiful,” said Jason Goodman of the Presidential Inauguration Committee.

Music director Mack Wilberg conducted the choir in the outdoor performance of his arrangement of “America the Beautiful” just before noon on the West Terrace of the Capitol.

“The lyrics were written by Katharine Bates in 1893, during a visit to Pike's Peak in Colorado,” said Wilberg. “It's one of our great songs because it talks about our great heritage and our continued potential as a great nation.”

Choir members were dressed in crème-colored coats with matching turtleneck sweaters and red plaid scarves as they sang outdoors under cloudy skies. In all, 215 singers of the 360-member choir, goodwill ambassadors of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, traveled from Salt Lake City to the nation’s capital for the historic event after accepting an invitation from the U.S. Presidential Inauguration Committee.

President Eyring Dedicates Philadelphia Mormon Temple

President Henry B. Eyring, first counselor in the First Presidency, dedicated Pennsylvania’s first temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ 152nd on Sunday, September 18, 2016.

It has a feeling in it unlike any temple I've ever been in terms of its beauty and the spaciousness, and just the feeling of the house of the Lord. It's really quite remarkable, said President Erying.

Accompanying President Eyring to the dedicatory services were Elder D. Todd Christofferson of Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and Elders Gerrit W. Gong, Anthony D. Perkins and Larry Y. Wilson of the Seventy.

President Eyring directed the completion of the temple construction with the traditional cornerstone ceremony. He placed mortar around the cornerstone and invited others to do the same.

It's a wonderful moment in the dedication of this temple, he said. There is a stone prepared for us now to seal ... it's symbolic of the Lord Jesus Christ who is the Chief Cornerstone of the Church.

The 61,000-square-foot temple will serve more than 40,000 Church members in parts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland and all of Delaware.

President Eyring told those gathered at the brief ceremony that he was born in New Jersey and was baptized in Philadelphia. So to me, this is especially significant, said President Eyring, that the Lord would have granted this wonderful house to you wonderful people in this part of Zion.

Plans were announced for the Philadelphia Temple on October 4, 2008, and the Church broke ground September 17, 2011.

Temple construction features classic Georgian architecture designed to blend with the historic Philadelphia architecture. The exterior is clad in granite from Maine, and the interior features stone from Egypt and Italy. The building includes original art glass and an oil-painting wall mural of landscapes important in both American and Church history, including the Susquehanna River and the Delaware River. The temple stands 208 feet tall and is crowned with a gilded statue of Moroni, a Book of Mormon prophet who is significant to Latter-day Saints for his role in the Restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

140,000 people attended the nearly month-long open house including 4,000 civic, religious and government leaders.

One day before the temple was dedicated several hundred Latter-day Saint youth participated in a cultural celebration marking the completion of the temple with song and dance honoring the state’s heritage and the history of the Church in Pennsylvania. The performance was held at the Liacouras Center at Temple University in Philadelphia.

President Eyring told the performers, This day is historic in your lives. You will always remember the feeling of celebration and faith as you prepared for this performance tonight. You will tell your children and perhaps your grandchildren that you were here and how you felt, he said.

Latter-day Saint temples differ from the meetinghouses or chapels where members meet for Sunday worship services. Temples are considered “houses of the Lord,” where the teachings of Jesus Christ are reaffirmed through marriage, baptism and other ceremonies that unite families for eternity.

Mormon Artifacts on Display at the Smithsonian

Artifacts from the early history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are on display in a new one-year exhibition at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. The “Religion in Early America” exhibit, part of four new The Nation We Build Together exhibitions and interactive experiences, opens to the public on June 28, 2017, in the National Museum of American History.

“Religion in Early America” tells the story of the beliefs and practices of early Americans from 1630 to the 1840s.

We would like visitors to come away with the understanding of three factors of early American life — religious diversity, religious freedom and religious growth,” said museum curator Peter Manseau. To stand in the presence of the physical objects transports you to sharing space with those who had lived with them in early American history.

Visitors to the museum will be able to see an original manuscript of the Book of Mormon, an 1830 first edition of the Book of Mormon, a couple of rare Mormon gold coins and two Kirtland Safety Society notes from 1837. The Latter-day Saint artifacts are on loan from the Church History Library in Salt Lake City, except for the gold coins, which are part of the Smithsonian collection.

“In my opinion, the original manuscript is the most important record in possession of the Church,” said Brandon Metcalf, archivist at the Church History Department. “This is the first time we've ever loaned a page of the original manuscript because it is so rare. Many of the pages that did survive are illegible, and so it's one of our most treasured collections.”

US President Visits Welfare Square

“We’re really proud of you. What you do is like nobody else.” Those were the words of U.S. President Donald J. Trump in his first visit to Salt Lake City since becoming president a year ago. President Trump met with leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at Welfare Square Monday, December 4, 2017.

He was greeted by President Henry B. Eyring of the Church’s First Presidency; President Russell M. Nelson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles; Bishop Gérald Caussé of the Presiding Bishopric; and Sister Jean B. Bingham, Relief Society general president.

Provo City Center Temple Completed

A public open house for the Provo City Center Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints begins on January 15, 2016, following a five-year renovation of the former Provo Tabernacle. The tabernacle was a more than century-old icon located in the central Utah community of Provo. Learn more:

At Oxford, Apostle Reflects on Lessons Learned During Watergate Trials

“Putting one’s integrity on hold, even for seemingly small acts in seemingly small matters, places one in danger of losing the benefit and protection of conscience altogether,” said Elder D. Todd Christofferson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

The Mormon apostle spoke to students, faculty and academics at the University of Oxford in England on Thursday, June 15, 2017, about his experiences as a law clerk during the Watergate trials more than 40 years ago.

Watergate Scandal

“I had what you would call a ‘ringside’ seat at the Watergate trials,” recalled Elder Christofferson, who was the law clerk to presiding Judge John Sirica in the United States District Court in Washington, D.C., in the early 1970s. “On one occasion the judge said to me, ‘I hope you appreciate this. Not many law clerks get an experience like this.’ And then he paused and said, ‘I guess not many judges do either.’”

The Watergate scandal, named after a building complex in the nation’s capital, led to the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon in 1974, after the president and his attorney general, legal counsel and closest aides were implicated in efforts to cover up a break-in at the Democratic National Committee’s Watergate offices. Members of the president’s reelection committee had devised a plan to illegally enter the offices at the Watergate complex to plant listening devices.

“Judge John Sirica and I listened to the subpoenaed audio tapes from the White House meetings that demonstrated clearly the complicity of President Nixon in the effort to cover up who was responsible for the break-in at the Watergate,” Elder Christofferson explained. Copies of the relevant portions of the tapes were then handed over to the special prosecutor and grand jury.

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Exterior of Tabernacle house. Shots of people queuing outside. Customers walking out of building with large parcels. Several shots of people queuing next to cashiers desk inside - several shots. C/Us of cashier serving woman and little girl. Similar shots. Cashier counting money. Several more good shots of people being served over counter. Several shots of customer emptying money into box and proceeding to tie it up with rope.



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Historic Photos Taken At Rome Temple

In the midst of three days of dedicatory ceremonies for the Rome Italy Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, all members of the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (15 in all) gathered Monday for a historic group photo. These four days in Rome are believed to be the first time in Church history that all 15 leaders have gathered in one location outside the United States — and the first group photo taken in two decades.

LDS Church opens Idaho Falls Temple after two year renovation project

IDAHO FALLS — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is opening the doors of the Idaho Falls Idaho Temple this week following a major renovation project.

160,000 reservations have been made for the public open house, which begins Saturday, and church officials announced Monday that an additional 60,000 open house tickets have been released.

The temple closed in March 2015 and construction crews have updated all mechanical and electrical equipment, redone the entire interior of the building, restored large murals and finished a variety of other improvements.

“It’s very exciting,” said Elder Larry Wilson, the LDS Church Temple Department executive director. “This is much more of a historic temple, like some of the pioneer temples in Utah, and this renovation has brought back some of the original beauty to the temple.”

The Idaho Falls Temple was first announced in 1937. It was the first Mormon temple in Idaho and the eighth in the world. It was dedicated Sept. 23, 1945.

“I was here at the dedication with my grandparents when I was 10 years old,” Rigby church member JoAn Wood told EastIdahoNews.com. “I remember how many people were here. It was just such a huge, huge crowd.”

Wood has fond memories of singing a song called “Temple by the River” with a group of young women two years after the building was dedicated.

She was later sealed to her husband and five daughters in the Idaho Falls temple. Latter-day Saints believe a couple sealed in a temple will be married beyond death and their family will be together forever.

“He’s been gone 14 years this April, and to know that I’m sealed to him eternally is very satisfying to me,” Wood said.

Wood, other VIPs and the media toured the temple Monday. Everything inside the 92,000-square-foot building is new or like new — crews were brought in to clean and restore large murals that have hung on the walls for decades.

“It was a slow and tedious process to get these murals back to their original state,” Wilson said. “The colors are brighter and clearer now, and there is so much more light.”

There are 156 operating temples throughout the world. The Idaho Falls Temple is one of four temples in the Gem State. The others are Twin Falls, Boise and Rexburg. A temple in Meridian is under construction, and the Pocatello temple was announced earlier this month.

The Idaho Falls Temple open house runs from Saturday, April 22 through Saturday, May 20, 2017, except for April 23, April 30, May 7 and May 14. Everyone is welcome to attend, church officials say, and free reservations for tours can be made by clicking here.

“We’re really looking forward to this one being open again,” Wood said. “I can’t wait.”

Hartford Mormon Temple Dedication Cornerstone Ceremony

The New England area of the United States includes a new house of the Lord, as the Hartford Connecticut Temple has been dedicated.

President Henry B. Eyring, first counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints dedicated the temple on Sunday, November 20, 2017.

Prior to the dedication, President Eyring conducted the traditional cornerstone ceremony, which signifies completion of the temple. He invited people to help him seal the cornerstone with mortar using a monogrammed trowel.

Bear Lake + Minnetonka Cave 2010

Charles Family Reunion this year at Bear Lake, UT. Marci, Sydney and I hiked the Minnetonka Cave which was amazing!

Museum of the American Revolution Opens in Philadelphia

Preserving history, connecting families and improving the local community are three core practices of the Latter-day Saint life. Wednesday’s opening of the Museum of the American Revolution (MoAR) is a combination of each. Photo, courtesy of the Museum of the American Revolution

MoAR, located just a few minutes away from the Church’s new temple in downtown Philadelphia, tells the complete story of the American revolutionary era that dates from 1760 to 1783, when the 13 American colonies broke away from the British Empire and formed the United States of America.

Major Idaho roadways expected to see snow, high winds and winter conditions for holiday commute

With parts of Oregon and Washington already getting hit, the major winter storm is expected to bring snowfall and major wind gusts to Idaho starting Tuesday night.

Hartford Mormon Temple Cultural Celebration

The evening before the Hartford Connecticut Mormon temple was dedicated President Eyring spoke to the youth performers about the memorable occasion of celebrating the completion of the sacred structure. Thousands of Mormon youth danced and sang, depicting the history of the area and of the Church to the audience at the Oakdale Theatre in nearby Wallingford, Connecticut.

The temple will serve nearly 27,000 Church members in Connecticut, western Rhode Island, western Massachusetts and eastern New York.

The doors of the Hartford Temple opened in September and October to give the public a chance to walk through the edifice before it was dedicated. Approximately 51,000 people toured the temple including state and community leaders. The temple is located at 2 Central Way in Farmington, on the corner of Route 4 and Melrose Drive.

Latter-day Saint temples differ from the meetinghouses or chapels where members meet for Sunday worship services. Temples are considered “houses of the Lord,” where the teachings of Jesus Christ are reaffirmed through marriage, baptism and other ceremonies that unite families for eternity.

Rome Italy Temple Receives Statue of Christ and the Original Twelve Apostles

As the Rome Italy Temple and visitors’ center advance toward completion, a major benchmark has occurred within the visitors’ center — the installation of the marble statue of the resurrected Christ. It is an exact replica of the original Christus statue produced by Bertel Thorvaldsen in Italy before its placement in Denmark in the early 1800s.

Also included in the Rome Temple Visitors’ Center are marble statue replicas of the original Twelve Apostles. The statues were digitally measured and fashioned to be precisely the same as the originals, and the marble was taken from the original Michelangelo cave in Carrera, Italy, before arriving in Rome.

Last chance Grace Idaho

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