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Laying
the Cornerstone of the Temple in West Africa
A
Photo Essay
By
Scot and Maurine Proctor
Part
3
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President
Hinckley has dedicated more temples than any other person in this
dispensation. Of the 117 operating temples, President Hinckley
has dedicated 82 of them.
Soon
after President Hinckley confessed he has not mastered the art of
putting the mud in the cornerstone, some of it drops on his shoe.
Everyone
leans in to watch as President Hinckley puts in the first dab of
mud.
“Mother,
Kathy,” the prophet says to his wife, Marjorie Pay Hinckley, and
daughter Kathleen H. Barnes, “come and take a turn.” His advice
on the best way to use the trowel: “Just pretend you are making
a cake.” People always warm to President Hinckley’s charm.
Sister
Hinckley still accompanies President Hinckley on many of his far-flung
journeys.
Grant
Gunnell, president of the Accra Ghana temple, reports that the schedule
is full with families eager to be sealed.
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After receiving
her education from University of Utah and Harvard, Maurine Jensen
Proctor, the Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of Meridian Magazine,
began her writing career with McGraw Hill Magazines and the Chicago
Sun-Times. She has created award-winning television documentaries,
has written a radio show for more than six years that played on
300 radio stations, and was a long-time writer of The Spoken Word
for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
She, and her
husband, Scot, have written several books together, including Witness
of the Light, Source of the Light, Light from the Dust and The Gathering.
They also edited a new version of Lucy Mack Smith’s biography
of her son called The Revised and Enhanced History of Joseph Smith
by His Mother and The Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt. They were
formerly the editors of This People magazine.
Maurine has
been a part-time Institute teacher for the past 13 years and is
the mother of eleven children and grandmother of three. |
Scot Facer
Proctor, Publisher of Meridian Magazine, is the author, co-author,
or editor of several books including History of the Prophet Joseph
Smith by His Mother. Scot is a photographer by trade, teaches
Institute part-time, is married to Maurine Jensen Proctor and
the father of eleven children grandfather of three. Scot and Maurine
reside in the Washington D.C. Metro area.
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