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Brigham City Temple

President Boyd K. Packer, a Brigham City native who now serves as president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, is scheduled to dedicate the new temple in Brigham City on Sunday, September 23. The dedicatory services will be broadcast in three sessions to all stakes in Utah and to stakes in southeastern Idaho that are a part of the temple district. Regular church meetings are cancelled in those stakes that Sunday.

We had an opportunity to walk through the temple during the second day of the open house on Monday evening, August 20. I took this picture of the front of the temple with my iPhone at the conclusion of the tour.

Let the games begin!

This past week's Republican national convention in Tampa Bay, Florida, shared the headlines with tropical storm (later hurricane) Isaac, which in the end sidestepped Florida and came ashore along the Louisiana coast. The convention officially nominated Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan as the Republican ticket for the November elections.

The Democratic national convention will be held this coming week (September 3-6) and will nominate President Barack Obama and Joe Biden, incumbent president and vice president, as the Democratic ticket.