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

Part Five

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After the children were finished, President Hinckley invited anyone else in the crowd to take a turn helping to seal the cornerstone.

In the middle of a song, this choir member accepted the invitation with gusto.

This little boy had surely sung in his primary, “I love to see the temple, I’m going there someday.”

Many of the women at the temple dedication were dressed in elegant African dress.

Brother Appiah returned from Chicago to be at the temple dedication.  His father is the stake president in Cape Coast.

Joseph William Billy Johnson in the far right of the picture, started several congregations, calling themselves The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in Ghana long before the missionaries arrived.

Those who helped with the cornerstone had a moment never to be forgotten.

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