South Jordan joined Provo on Sunday as the two Utah cities with a pair of operating Mormon temples after President Henry B. Eyring rededicated the Jordan River Temple.
The edifice, closed for an extensive makeover since February 2016, originally opened in 1981 and quickly became one of the busiest in the global Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
In a news release, Erying, second counselor in the faith’s governing First Presidency, referred to that earlier dedicatory prayer nearly four decades ago by then-LDS Church President Spencer W. Kimball, who talked about governments and the need for righteous leadership and unity.