From ldschurchnews.com:
"The Church announced Sept. 7 that the Payson Utah Temple groundbreaking will take place on Oct. 8, with Elder Dallin H. Oaks presiding at the 9 a.m. ceremony.
"The property for the temple is located at approximately 930 West and 1550 South on the southwest side of Payson, a mile from the 800 South I-15 interchange. The new temple will help meet the needs of a growing Church membership in the area and will ease the heavy use of the Provo Utah Temple, which is one of the busiest in the Church. The Payson temple will bring to 15 the number of operating and announced temples in Utah.
"The new temple will serve approximately 22 stakes from Spanish Fork to Nephi comprising approximately 78,000 Church members. Temple-going members have been driving 14 miles to Provo or 66 miles Manti for temple services.
"President Thomas S. Monson announced on Jan. 25 that a new temple will be built in Payson, a once agrarian area located in southern Utah County."
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Please don't build another temple. It disrupts the beautiful landscape with the extravagant nature of an overgrown church. Of course it sits in a very prominent location so that I-15 travelers can see it as a billboard of mormon wealth, but last time I checked, their are still children starving in Africa. The diverted funds from one chandelier to an impoverished people could do more good than the entire temple would do for its members.
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