Utah will have 23 Latter-day Saint temples, thanks to two more church President Russell M. Nelson announced Saturday night.
Nelson, the 95-year-old leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, announced six other temples as well Saturday — in Freetown, Sierra Leone; Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea; Bentonville, Ark.; Bacolod, Philippines; McAllen, Texas; and Cobán, Guatemala.
In Sierra Leone, for instance, Bo, the nation’s second largest city after Freetown, recently got its third stake (a regional cluster of Latter-day Saint congregations). The three stakes in the city of 175,000 all came within 22 months.