Episode 34
Tuesday, November 3
37 min · 17 sources · Church News, Church Newsroom, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Keystone, RISE ZION, Jesus Christ in Scripture
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In this episode
Four temples in two days: Mexico, Kansas, Texas, American Samoa
0:46Church News · 4 min
The Pago Pago American Samoa Temple, the first in the territory, opened to media on November 2, with public tours November 4 to 21 and a December 13 dedication by Elder Quentin L. Cook.
Church Newsroom · 3 min
The Newsroom's official notice that the Fort Worth Texas Temple open house has begun, with dates, address and a press kit.
Church News · 4 min
The Fort Worth Texas Temple, in Burleson, opened with a November 2 media day ahead of public tours November 5 to 21 and a January 10, 2027 dedication.
Church News · 7 min
Elder Patrick Kearon dedicated the Wichita Kansas Temple on November 1, the first in Kansas, and the story is told mostly through members who will now have a temple close by.
Church Newsroom · 6 min
The Newsroom's report on Elder Renlund dedicating the San Luis Potosí Mexico Temple, focused on his teaching about the temple's power to heal.
Church News · 11 min
Elder Dale G. Renlund dedicated the San Luis Potosí Mexico Temple on November 1, the Church's 228th, tying the region's silver, rivers and royal road to temple blessings.
Elder Kearon asks Ensign College students to write their own plan for phone and social media use
5:37Church News · 4 min
At an Ensign College devotional on Oct. 27, Elder Patrick Kearon asked students to examine their own phone and social media use and write their own plan, rather than handing them a list of rules.
Church details water conservation steps for drought and the Great Salt Lake
8:07Church Newsroom · 3 min
An official Church statement on the western drought and the Great Salt Lake's low water, listing what the Church has done to conserve water and inviting members to do their part.
Nearly 700 Latter-day Saints clean up Pensacola after Hurricane Isaias
10:11Church News · 3 min
Nearly 700 Latter-day Saint volunteers from seven stakes in Alabama, Mississippi and Florida spent the Oct. 17 to 18 weekend cleaning up Pensacola after Hurricane Isaias.
FSY 2027 pre-registration opens, with a sleep-at-home pilot in Utah
12:05Church News · 3 min
Pre-registration for 2027 For the Strength of Youth conferences in the U.S. and Canada is open, with a new pilot in Utah where youth attend by day and sleep at home.
BYU-Pathway holds first ceremony for 194 graduates from Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay
14:28Church News · 4 min
BYU–Pathway held its first achievement ceremony in the South America South Area, in Buenos Aires, for graduates who earned degrees online.
Dedicate episode five: young adults ask leaders about sealing and divorce inside the Salt Lake Temple
16:16The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints · 25 min
Seven young adults finish their trip to the Salt Lake Temple renovation by gilding in a future endowment room, seeing the original temple plans, and asking Elder Kearon, Sister Dennis and Elder Wada their hard questions about sealing, divorce and broken families in one of the new sealing rooms.
Keystone host checks Alyssa Grenfell's BYU library censorship claims against the catalog
19:22Keystone · 9 min
A nine-minute rebuttal of former member Alyssa Grenfell's video claiming the BYU Library censors ex-Mormon books by locking them in Special Collections.
Rise Zion's Seth ties Elder Gilbert's Cody temple prayer to President Oaks's warning about deception
23:01RISE ZION · 24 min
Seth reads Elder Clark G. Gilbert's full Cody Wyoming Temple dedicatory prayer and ties its petition for the rising generation ("so that they will not be deceived in these latter days") to President Oaks's Burley temple warning and February BYU devotional.
RISE ZION ties the missionary surge to the full wording of President Eyring's prophecy
25:55RISE ZION · 29 min
Seth walks through Bishop L. Todd Budge's Oct. 20 BYU devotional (95,000-plus missionaries, 55 new missions, more MTCs needed, 168 temple projects) and ties it to a fuller Church News quote of President Eyring's 2025 prophecy that growth will rise "if things do get worse."
Rise Zion reposts Elder Maxwell's talk on scripture as spiritual memory
29:10RISE ZION · 16 min
This is the plain audio of an Elder Neal A. Maxwell conference talk from about 1986, the one welcoming Elder Wirthlin to the Twelve, on scripture as mankind's spiritual memory.
Jesus Christ in Scripture reads Ezekiel 1 as a vision of God's glory
31:34Jesus Christ in Scripture · 13 min
Tammy Uzelac Hall and Donald W. Parry read Ezekiel 1 as a theophany, using the precious stones and metals prophets reach for to describe God's glory, and then urge reverence.
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