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Freiberg temple set stage for gospel to flourish in Eastern Europe

Published: Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010 | Read story
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President Thomas S. Monson, then first counselor in the First Presidency, with his wife, Frances, at left, and Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf, then of the Seventy, visit the Freiberg Germany Temple in 1995. (Gerry Avant, Church News)
Gerry Avant, Church News
President Thomas S. Monson, then first counselor in the First Presidency, with his wife, Frances, at left, and Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf, then of the Seventy, visit the Freiberg Germany Temple in 1995.
Ever since the first group of Latter-day Saints traveled from Ukraine to the Freiberg Germany Temple in November of 1992, it has been "their temple."