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Central America has become a 'land of temples'

Published: Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012 | Read story
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President Henry B. Eyring observes as Elder D. Todd Christofferson place mortar on the capstone of the El Salvador temple. Sister Eyring is at the left.  (Photo by Jason Swensen)
Photo by Jason Swensen
President Henry B. Eyring observes as Elder D. Todd Christofferson place mortar on the capstone of the El Salvador temple. Sister Eyring is at the left.
Perhaps it was John Forres O'Donnal's upbringing in the rural Latter-day Saint colonies in northern Mexico that blessed him with a farmer's eye. He could look at a fallow, empty field and immediately divine a rich bumper crop.