This year Church leaders will create the 3,000th stake in the Church and Africa will see seven or eight new missions, Elder Holland said. But there will still be only 3 members of the First Presidency and 12 Apostles. also “Little by little, we’re going to see this continent covered by temples,” he predicted. Read …
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In the recent semiannual general conference, President Thomas S. Monson spoke of the thousands of faithful Latter-day Saints whose lives were being blessed thanks to the Church’s General Temple Patron Fund. The fund helps faithful members with limited financial resources and who live far from a temple to visit the temple for the first time. …
More than 25 years after the Church received legal recognition in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, President Thomas S. Monson announced during general conference that a temple is to be built in the capital city of Kinshasa. In a country with a Church membership of more than 23,000, news of the temple is an …
President Monson announced in General Conference today that temples will be built in Khinasa, DRC, and Durban, South Africa. The DRC temple will be the first in Central Africa, and the Durban temple will be the second in South Africa. These temples will bring the total in Africa to five.