Growth and Expansion

The City Creek Project continues to move forward rapidly. They have now started the pedestrian bridge between the two blocks above Main Street. Note that the TRAX lines will run underneath the bridge.

This view is looking east from Main Street and South Temple. This is the new entrance and exit for parking. Parking is a major problem with the construction.

The parking lot which was available for the public for the Joseph Smith Memorial Building was located just east of the building. That entrance/exit is gone now and is being replaced by a large raised flower planter. This pictures shows the planter before soil and plants have been added. The buildings on the other block continue to rise.

This is a close up of the new raised flower bed on the east side of the JSMB.

The follow quotation has been used twice in devotions this past week. It was given in 1912 and we are seeing the fulfillment of this in our day in new.FamilySearch and the the Family History Library and will see more in the future. The National Genealogical Society Convention will be held in Salt Lake City at the end of this month. I have added italics to the quotation.

“In conclusion, let me suggest the future of this work. I see the records of the dead and their histories gathered from every nation under heaven to one great central library in Zion—the largest and best equipped for its particular work in the world. Branch libraries may be established in the nations, but in Zion will be the records of last resort and final authority. Trained genealogists will find constant work in all nations having unpublished records, searching among the archives for families and family connections. Then, as temples multiply, and the work enlarges to its ultimate proportions, this Society, or some organization growing out of this Society, will have in its care some elaborate, but perfect system of exact registration and checking, so that the work in the temples may be conducted without confusion or duplication. And so throughout the years, reaching into the Millennium of peace, this work of salvation will go on, until every worthy soul that can be found from earthly records will have been searched out and officiated for; and then the unseen world will come to our aid, the broken links will be joined, the tangled threads will be placed in order, and the purposes of God in placing salvation within the reach of all will have been consummated.

“We live in a day of small beginnings, as far as this is concerned. We are still pioneers. We are but helping to lay the foundation of the ‘marvelous work and a wonder that is about to come forth among the children of men.’” Quotation by Nephi Anderson, “Genealogy’s Place in the Plan of Salvation,” UGHM 3 [Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine] (January 1912): 21-22.