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December 2011 Ensign TEMPLE NEWS ON THE WEB degrees Celsius) on October 8, 2011, to Leadership Training Available as Video Library witness Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles preside over the The Priesthood Department has groundbreaking for the Payson Utah announced an interactive supple- Temple. ment to the updated Handbook 2: Elder Oaks was joined by Elder Steven E. Administering the Church. The Snow and Elder Jay E. Jensen, both of Leadership Training Library is the Presidency of the Seventy, and Elder an online collection of short William R. Walker of the Seventy. training videos that highlight the The new temple will serve approximately principles taught in the manual. President Eyring Dedicates Temple 22 stakes from Spanish Fork to Nephi, which in El Salvador The new resource is available now comprise some 78,000 Church members. On August 21, 2011, Latter-day Saints in at leadershiplibrary .lds .org. Central America gathered in the San Salvador Ground Broken in Trujillo Peru The library is initially available in Temple in El Salvador and in meetinghouses The Church broke ground for the English. Portions of the library will throughout El Salvador, Belize, Nicaragua, Trujillo Peru Temple on Wednesday, also be provided in 10 additional and Honduras. President Henry B. Eyring, First September 14, 2011. languages in early 2012. Counselor in the First Presidency, dedicated Elder Rafael E. Pino of the Seventy, South the temple, the fourth in Central America. America Northwest Area President, presided. Three dedicatory sessions accommodated His counselors, Elder Juan A. Uceda and Book of Mormon the large number of Latter-day Saints in the Elder W. Christopher Waddell, also attended. Videos Updated area who attended. The temple opened In his remarks, Elder Pino urged mem- Updated Book of Mormon for member ordinance work on Tuesday, bers to spend time prior to the temple’s Stories videos are now available August 23, 2011. dedication to help less-active members in English at the scripture stories return to full activity and prepare to enter President Eyring Breaks Ground section of LDS .org. The videos will in Philadelphia the house of the Lord. be made available in 10 additional On Saturday, September 17, 2011, languages later this month, in President Henry B. Eyring, First Counselor Sapporo Japan Temple Now Underway time for 2012’s Gospel Doctrine in the First Presidency, broke ground for the The groundbreaking for the curriculum focused on the Book Philadelphia Pennsylvania Temple. Sapporo Japan Temple took place of Mormon. Also in attendance were Elder Jay E. on October 22, 2011. Jensen of the Presidency of the Seventy Originally available online as slide- First announced by President Thomas S. and Elder William R. Walker of the Seventy, shows, the once two-dimensional Monson on October 3, 2009, the temple who serves as the executive director of the images were given a new, three- will be located on the Atsubetsu River, near Church’s Temple Department. dimensional look using a technique Hokusei Gakuen University. Members within the temple district gath- An artist’s rendering of the Sapporo called parallax animation. The videos ered in their respective meetinghouses, to Japan Temple and site plan were publicly also feature sound effects and an which the service was broadcast. released in conjunction with the ground- original soundtrack. The temple will be the first in Pennsylvania. breaking ceremony. In addition to being on lds .org, Nearly 50,000 members in the state will Sapporo is Japan’s fifth largest city the videos are also available as benefit from it. and is located on the northern island of podcasts on iTunes and as clips on Hokkaido. This temple will be the third in Elder Oaks Presides at YouTube and Roku. ◼ Groundbreaking in Payson Japan, following the Tokyo Japan Temple Thousands braved light rainfall and (1980) and the Fukuoka Japan Temple temperatures in the 30s (between -1 and 4 (2000). ◼ 78 Ensign.
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