Welcome to the Salt Lake City Chapter - National Society of The Sons of Utah Pioneers.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
We contacted Georges Bonnet who is the Communications Director of the Salt Lake Temple Renovation Project and he asked Elder and Sister Todd to make the presentation to our chapter. His office receives many requests from various organizations to provide presentations and they focus on the current design and resultant construction work.
We hope to gain a glimpse of the end result after project completion and suspect this will be of great interest to those who have previously served in the Salt Lake Temple as ordinance workers, those who might hope to serve when it reopens, and any who are just curious at this point in time.
Brother and Sister Todd were Temple Construction Site Missionaries at the Paris France Temple before coming to the Salt Lake Temple Renovation Project in October 2019. Elder Todd had his own architecture firm, Todd Associates, and was the Area Architect for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Southeast Asia and involved with the first chapels constructed in India, Sri Lanka, and Mongolia.
They have lived in many parts of the world: Quezon City, Philippines; Geneva, Switzerland; Paris, France; Utah and California. They were couple missionaries in the Switzerland Geneva Mission where Elder Todd served as a young missionary.
We are delighted to be able to hear their presentation. This meeting is open to all, so please help spread the word. It must be done this coming weekend because General Conference is the next Saturday and Sunday right before this meeting.
we will have refreshments
We want to thank Jon Nichols, Assistant to the President for Strategy, Planning, and Assessment; and Emma Holmes, International Students Relations; for their presentation of the mission, admission requirements and outreach to students from all parts of the world. We had invited them because we recently had an opportunity to give some scholarship money to a student from India, and wished the members of our chapter to hear about the college.
Photo: Emma Holmes - Ensign College; Alonzo Cook - Chapter President; Bart Cardon - Student's Sponsor; Raj Vaddi - Student's uncle; Jon Nichols - Ensign College
We learned the students represent 85 countries, 52% are non-traditional students, 20% are first generation college students, 50% are returned missionaries, 92% are employed within one year of graduation, and the cost of attending is the lowest of any university in Utah.
Enrollment levels are in the neighborhood of 6,000 students in-person and on-line, and close to 75,000 students in the BYU-Pathway Worldwide, which is administered by the Ensign College.
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