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President Russell M. Nelson rededicated the Manti Utah Temple on Sunday, April 21, as “a house of peace, a house of comfort, and a house of personal revelation.”
The leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ participation in the rededication of the temple was a surprise to members in Sanpete County.
Originally dedicated 136 years ago in May 1888, the Manti Utah Temple is the Church’s third house of the Lord built in Utah.
“We build temples to honor the Lord,” said President Nelson, whose eight great-grandparents called Sanpete County home. “They are built for worship and not for show. We make sacred covenants of eternal significance inside these sacred walls.”
President Nelson was joined by his wife, Sister Wendy W. Nelson; Elder Ronald A. Rasband of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and his wife, Sister Melanie Rasband; Elder Kevin R. Duncan, General Authority Seventy and executive director of the Temple Department, and his wife, Sister Nancy R. Duncan; and Elder Kevin W. Pearson, General Authority Seventy and president of the Church’s Utah Area, and his wife, Sister June L. Pearson, for the rededication.
During the rededication, leaders honored the pioneers in the area, including those who sacrificed and supported the efforts to build the temple, as they looked forward to the future of the Manti Utah Temple reopening. The rededication consisted of one session at 5 p.m. with about 2,200 people in the temple and broadcast throughout the 23 stakes in the central Utah temple district. Members had regular Church meetings earlier in the day, marked by blue skies and spring flowers.
President Nelson said the Church is building many additional temples so that great temple blessings will be more accessible to faithful families across the world.
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