Years of prayers answered: Latter-day Saints react to announcement of 15 temples

‘I feel so privileged to live in this time and witness the hastening of the Lord’s work in this area and throughout the world,’ one Latter-day Saint says

Published: April 8, 2025, 2:02 p.m. MDT

The Salt Lake Temple under construction during the Saturday evening session of the 195th annual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Saturday, April 5, 2025. Jeffrey D. Allred for the Deseret News

Many years of prayers were answered when President Russell M. Nelson announced 15 new temples at the end of the Sunday afternoon session of April 2025 general conference.

“We are so excited. We have been praying for years in every meeting,” Rapid City South Dakota Stake President M. Troy Nesbit wrote, reacting to the news in a text message to the Church News.

“We are so happy to have a temple near us and to be able to share this blessing with our community. Our reactions at the time of the announcement [were] first screams, then tears of joy.”

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