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Late-summer warmth lingered abnormally long as Elder Steven R. Bangerter, a General Authority Seventy and first counselor in the Church’s North America Central Area presidency, presided over the groundbreaking ceremony for the Cody Wyoming Temple on Friday, Sept. 27.
Elder Bangerter was accompanied by his wife, Sister Susan Bangerter. Elder Kevin R. Duncan, a General Authority Seventy and executive director of the Church’s Temple Department, attended with his wife, Sister Nancy Duncan. Elder Duncan conducted the groundbreaking service.
Elder Bangerter offered the site’s dedicatory prayer after sharing his testimony of temples and the blessings that come through Heavenly Father because of the covenants made in the house of the Lord. In the prayer, he asked for blessings on the temple as it is built and on the people in the area whose lives can be blessed by a temple.
“We ask that they may feel a spirit of peace wash over them, granting them comfort and assurance that the presence of the temple will bring added joy, prosperity, beauty and unity to their lives and their community,” he said in the prayer.
Wyoming is the least-populated state in the United States, but more than 10% of the state’s population are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Surprise blessing of a temple in Cody
When President Russell M. Nelson announced the Cody Wyoming Temple on Oct. 3, 2021, toward the conclusion of October 2021 general conference, members of the Church were both excited and a little surprised. Located in the northwestern part of Wyoming, this is the third house of the Lord in that state and was one of 13 temples announced at the conference. Other temples in the state are the Casper Wyoming Temple — which is scheduled to be dedicated in November — and the Star Valley Wyoming Temple, dedicated in 2016.
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