Nicaragua - announce a termple, move the missionaries out

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Nicaragua - announce a termple, move the missionaries out

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is moving 169 missionaries out of increasingly unstable Nicaragua.

A news release Tuesday said 158 missionaries will remain in the Central American country but are being moved to safe areas.

“Due to growing political instability in Nicaragua, the church is in the process of transferring 169 missionaries out of that country,” church spokesman Daniel Woodruff said in the release. “This includes 37 missionaries from the Nicaragua Managua North Mission, all of whom were nearing the end of their service and will return home.

https://www.sltrib.com/religion/local/2 ... stability/

Only last month, LDS Church President Russell M. Nelson announced the church would build a temple in Managua, the church’s first in Nicaragua.

“Missionaries [in Nicaragua] have reported being on lockdown for extended periods of time before this announcement was made,” Martinich said. “So it sounds like it was not taken lightly.

Hmmm, it’s almost as if Church Leaders didn’t foresee the problem...
“When we are confronted with evidence that challenges our deeply held beliefs we are more likely to reframe the evidence than we are to alter our beliefs. We simply invent new reasons, new justifications, new explanations. Sometimes we ignore the evidence altogether.” (Mathew Syed 'Black Box Thinking')
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Re: Nicaragua - announce a termple, move the missionaries ou

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I have a question wrote:Hmmm, it’s almost as if Church Leaders didn’t foresee the problem...


President Nelson is a retired doctor who became a professional clergyman claiming to have supernatural gifts like prophets we read about in the Bible. But in fact, he has no such gifts and doesn't know what the future beholds. All he can do is guess and speculate just like everyone else does. President Nelson is old and has created in his mind a wish list and wants to cement his legacy with the church as having accomplished great things. Hence his romp around the world while his adoring fans kiss his ring and sing praises to the prophet. You can be sure the old man soaked it up and loved the worship his fans gave him.

So, a temple in Russia and Nicaragua are just part of Nelson's wish list. They have no real way to accomplish those things and sustain that kind of operation in a manner that proves to be actually beneficial rather than a liability laden with costs and expenditures. Who is supposed to pay for a lavish temple in Nicaragua? If a temple is built the white and delightsome American Latter-day Saints who have been funding the church for decades will pay the bill. The temple will sit there pretty much doing nothing but will make for faith promoting photo shots for church magazines.
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