New, on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:
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President Russell M. Nelson continues to astound. He is, for one thing, 94 years old. And, just two days before his visit to California, his daughter fell victim to cancer. (He refers to her death in a comment cited in the article.) I hope that I’ll be as active as he is, and at least one percent as useful to others, when I’m seventy:
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The wait has been worthwhile. It’s a temple, after all. But it’s also a very beautiful building, set amidst really beautiful grounds and other buildings. Don’t miss the video:
“Rome Italy Temple to Begin Public Tours: Ancient Italian architecture reflected in edifice design”
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I’ve been told that President Nelson wants to build many more temples, and to bring them to people in places where the population is such that there will never be large numbers of Church members but where the distances are such that getting to a temple elsewhere would be very difficult, if not impossible. The announcement at the October 2018 general conference of temples in such places as Cape Verde and Guam seems to bear this out. Of necessity, at least some of these temples will be quite small. I wonder if the design of the San Juan Puerto Rico Temple, just released, is a harbinger of things to come:
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I realize that this talk didn’t settle every issue and won’t solve everybody’s problems — no single talk can do such a thing — but I liked it quite a bit, and hope that it helps some to think about these matters:
“Elder and Sister Renlund Discuss Faith and Doubt in Worldwide Broadcast”
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