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On Saturday, May 17, 2025, religious and government leaders and members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints gathered for the groundbreaking ceremony of the Natal Brazil Temple. This will be the 15th temple in Brazil.
The building of this temple was made possible thanks to “[Church] leadership, the faith of the leaders, and the work of members and missionaries to establish the Church in Natal,” said Elder Mark D. Eddy, Second Counselor in the Brazil Area Presidency.
Presided over by Elder Eddy and conducted by Elder Sankari, an Area Seventy, the ceremony featured remarks from 10-year-old Larissa Silva de Oliveira, 17-year-old Maria Eduarda Gomes da Silva, and Antonio Carlos Bastos Ferreira, a pioneer of the Church in the region. He recalled:
“In July 1978, at my father’s house, with just a few brothers and sisters, President Max L. Shirts dedicated the Natal area for the preaching of the gospel in Rio Grande do Norte,” he remembered.
“Here today begins the greatest spiritual transformation this city has ever seen,” he said.
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