Laying the Cornerstone of the Temple in West Africa
A Photo Essay
By Scot and Maurine Proctor

Part 4

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President Hinckley always invites some little children to participate in the event.  Elder Emmanuel A. Kissi looks on.

“Who me?”  Little boys wonder if the prophet is pointing to them.

It takes a heave-ho to get the primary child over the railing to answer President Hinckley’s call.

The completion of a temple is a joyous event.

Elder Emmanuel A. Kissi is an Area Authority Seventy who joined the Church in England and could have stayed there to form a lucrative medical practice.  Instead he chose to return to Ghana specifically to strengthen the Church.

It took this kind of cooperation to build a temple in Ghana.

President Hinckley asked this little boy to come up and represent the rising generation, keeping the memory of this dedication bright in memory.

President Hinckley said to the boys, “Do you think you can do it?  Sure you can.”

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After receiving her education from University of Utah and Harvard, Maurine Jensen Proctor, the Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of Meridian Magazine, began her writing career with McGraw Hill Magazines and the Chicago Sun-Times. She has created award-winning television documentaries, has written a radio show for more than six years that played on 300 radio stations, and was a long-time writer of The Spoken Word for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

She, and her husband, Scot, have written several books together, including Witness of the Light, Source of the Light, Light from the Dust and The Gathering. They also edited a new version of Lucy Mack Smith’s biography of her son called The Revised and Enhanced History of Joseph Smith by His Mother and The Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt. They were formerly the editors of This People magazine.

Maurine has been a part-time Institute teacher for the past 13 years and is the mother of eleven children and grandmother of three.

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