The Salt Lake Temple just finished a $2 billion seismic retrofit. Russell Nelson says it'll be the safest place in Salt Lake Valley during an earthquake. The engineers might disagree about who deserves the credit.
day Saints' newly completed Salt Lake Temple renovation — 98 base isolators, 263 miles of cable, and two decades of planning — and how the institution is already framing a predictable engineering outcome as prophetic foresight. They trace the pattern from Nelson's 2021 conference talk through the 2020 Magna earthquake to the Church's own "Led by the Spirit" account of a process that reads like standard bureaucratic sign-off. The temple didn't need a prophet to survive an earthquake. It needed geologists, cable, and a very large budget.
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