Leonard J. Arrington records hearing a report that the construction of the Brazil temple was "one of the immediately precipitating factors of the new revelation."
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- Personal Journal / Diary
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Leonard J. Arrington, Diary, June 13, 1978, in Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives Division, UUS_LJAHA COLL 001, Leonard J. Arrington Papers, series 12, box 30, folder 4, May-June 1978
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- Merrill-Cazier Library
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- Unknown
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LJA DIARY - 13 JUNE 1978 - TUESDAY
I heard this morning a report that one of the immediately precipitating factors of the new revelation was the projected opening of the temple in Brazil and the many questions
xxxx^that were raised about it which were taken to President Kimball and which he felt he had to take to the Lord. There is a large number of members of the Church in Brazil which appear to have some black African ancestors. In the process of shifting the responsibility for genealogical work to individual families--in the process of requiring that people in each temple district be required to furnish names--the people in Brazil were extremely hesitant. They were not anxious to do their genealogical work and provide names which would be used in temple work there.
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