rocomop Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Tijuana, Mexico?? > Hey there is some great shopping ers in TJ. Also a Hard Rock Cafe for lunch. I like it!
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rocomop Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Do you walk across or drive across?
Park on US side. Walk across. Taxi to best shops. Buy stuff nice lunch taxi back to border. Only stay on main streets. Never had anything but good experiences. Bring passport for US customs reentry, I have always left well before dark though.
Answer: Anywhere there are larger concentrations of church members who have money
Tithing and temples are tightly tied together. They put in a temple, go after the local youth, and a few years later there are temple marriages and family members wanting to attend the wedding. So the family members pay a lot of money to the church for at least a year prior to the wedding as admission to their own kids wedding, and the newly married couple are then new slaves to the church who raise mormon kids, brainwash them to want their own temple marriage, and the cycle continues. Without the temples, this church money-making machine wouldn't work nearly as well for the church as it does. Anyone who does not give ten percent of their income to the church can't go to the temple to be at their loved one's marriage and is also looked down upon by everyone else who does go to the temple. At least in the new and improved mormon church which isn't even mormon anymore, they don't threaten to cut your throat open anymore as a part of the temple ceremony.
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Sometimes the Mormon Jesus makes the decision and gives the Prophet an “impression” the evening before General Conference that he should announce the location of a new temple heretofore never considered by any person in an upper level capacity in the Church. The Mormon Jesus always chooses the most judicious location where the temple will realize the maximum return in relation to its cost and will provide maximum benefits to the greatest number of Temple Recommend Tithe Payers.
This happened just last year when it was announce that a temple will be built, timetable unknown, in a country that is a veritable hotbed of converts. Since the 1850’s the number of members has skyrocketed to an incredible number.
In that country with a staggering population of 1.3 BILLION people, there are an amazing 43 congregations and 13,500 members. Of course all 13,500 are full tithe payers and attend services faithfully every week. Yes, you guessed it – BENGALURU, INDIA. It is the future for Mormon proselytization efforts.
Russell M. Nelson was the recipient of the “impression” and simply made the announcement the next day in General Conference. He didn’t say that he had received his “impression” from the Mormon Jesus during that announcement. He waited until he was on his World Tour and told the believers directly in Bengaluru the good news that ”The Lord,” the Mormon Jesus had made the decision. I wonder if he told the Church temple planners or if he laid it on them as a surprise? Were they taking their vitamins.
“Our plans were to announce six new temples at conference time,” said President Nelson. “The Lord told me on the eve of conference: ‘Announce a temple in India.’ … That was the Lord's doing.” “The new temple is proof of ‘how much the Lord thinks’ about members here and ‘loves them,’ said Robert William, an Area Seventy in India.”
Yes siree. The thinking has been done.
Let’s see. The 15 are now in Italy at the Rome temple dedication. Will they all swing by the new Bengaluru, India temple location to dedicate the empty plot of land? Let’s see, do they have a plot of land yet?
From there they could just continue flying east and drop in on Hawaii, take a well-deserved rest and ogle a few of the girls with bare shoulders, wiggling in their skimpy grass skirts and skimpy … well, you know, during the show at the Polynesian Cultural Center in Honolulu. Just to make sure everything is going well of course.
Then they could fly on home and brag about having completed a real around-the-world tour. Nelson probably has more flight miles than all the other prophets combined, and just in 1 year.
Snowowl, that's for the very, very interesting information!
We know he's prone to being inspired and now that he's the top dog, numero uno, king-of-the-hill, no one can tell him where to stuff his impressions, as Hinckley and Monson previously enjoyed doing!
I strongly suspect two factors in temple site selection. I think the most important reason is to maintain the illusion of growth and the perception of a “worldwide church.” In recent years, we’ve seen many relatively small, (comparatively) inexpensive temples often in third world countries. It’s “proof” that God loves everybody and that his restored church is filling the whole world. The Rome temple is certainly grandiose, and beyond the “needs” of the local LDS population, but it’s a PR stunt and a status symbol.
The other (less common) factor in temple selection is motivating members. If you see a temple announced for a suburb of a large US city, I suspect the brethren have seen data that suggests that there are enough local members who don’t have current temple recommends that could be enticed to start attending (and therefore pay full tithes) if a temple was nearby.