BAHÍA BLANCA, Argentina — Throughout 2025, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have celebrated the 100th anniversary — “El Centenario” — of the Church in South America.

Elder Ulisses Soares — a native of Brazil and the first member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles from South America — marveled at the growth of the Church as he prepared to dedicate the Bahía Blanca Argentina Temple.

Of the new house of the Lord in the port city of Bahía Blanca, Elder Soares said, “This is a day of rejoicing, a day long hoped for and now fulfilled by the hand of the Lord.”

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