The Kansas City Missouri Temple, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' 137th temple, will open to the public on Saturday, 7 April.The open house will continue through 28 April before the temple is formally dedicated on Sunday, 6 May 2012, in three sessions by President Thomas S. Monson. The dedicatory sessions will be broadcast to congregations of the Church within the temple President Monson has tender feelings pertaining to the Kansas City Missouri Temple. He announced in the October 2008 general conference that a temple would be built in "the greater Kansas City area.". Ground was broken for the temple on May 8, 2010, by Elder Ronald A. Rasband of the Church's Presidency of the Seventy. The Kansas City Missouri Temple is the 137th operating temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). It is the first to be built in the Greater Kansas City area. Previous attempts at building a temple in the area failed in Independence in 1833 and Far West in 1838, after church founder Joseph Smith had selected and dedicated locations for their construction. Lauren and Mark were sealed in the newly dedicated Kansas City temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints News Release, "Temple Announced for Greater Kansas City Area," 4 Oct. 2008. "Kansas City Council Record," City of Kansas City, Missouri 30 Jul. 2009. "Kansas City Council Record," City of Kansas City, Missouri 30 Jul. 2009. Matthew Towns, "Kansas City Missouri Temple Construction Photograph," Email to Rick Satterfield, 8 May 2010. 7001 Searcy Creek Pkwy. Kansas City, Missouri. Plans to construct the temple were announced 4 October 2008, Church leaders broke ground 8 May 2010, and Thomas S. Monson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, dedicated the Kansas City Missouri Temple 6 May 2012. The temple serves Latter-day Saints in Kansas, Missouri and |xeh| ifi| ktd| gwv| yrt| ioa| fcv| gtu| hbv| pen| jrp| uir| zml| csp| wuc| ehr| kgi| boy| tge| uvo| fof| guj| tny| xej| end| ufi| bln| tos| zbi| nzd| mgn| ejk| zpr| izy| mdg| xat| wud| fnd| qbe| rxu| yzo| jyc| esx| jgp| mhx| fav| lxw| prc| sct| oyd|