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At the RootsTech 2025 Family Discovery Day, President Jeffrey R. Holland and Elder Neil L. Andersen of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles emphasized the unprecedented pace of temple construction and the profound impact of temple covenants on individuals and families.
“It is a most special time, when the prosperity has been given to us by God to build these houses of worship across all the world, in dozens of countries, so that we can, in this time, prepare ourselves for the Second Coming of the Savior,” Elder Andersen said from a stage inside the Salt Palace Convention Center on Saturday, March 8, 2025.
The Apostles were joined by Elder Andersen’s wife, Kathy.
President Russell M. Nelson has announced 185 temples — more than half of all temples in the Church — since he became president in 2018. During his tenure, 60 temples have been dedicated or rededicated and 47 are in construction and renovation. In November 2024, the 100-year-old prophet dedicated the faith’s 200th temple.
“We are moving. The work is hastening,” said President Holland, a native of St. George, Utah. “I grew up within a shadow of the first temple completed in the West as the Saints came to this extended valley in the Pioneer corridor. I thought everybody had a temple. [Learning] of these temples and this growth and these numbers [has been a] very personally moving thing for me.”
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