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[johnshaw]

From The Salt Lake Tribune

The Washington County Temple will have a golden Angel Moroni statue atop its steeple, the renderings show, while the Tooele Valley one will not. More and more of the church’s recently announced temples are being built without this iconic figure,

No idea why the difference.

The Layton temple was just dedicated and has a beautiful Angel Moroni on top, although it joins the few others that face west.

BTW, to answer the general question of why some temples have Moroni and some do not, this article was published some years ago in the Ensign, but much still applies today.

(From Val D. Greenwood, “How long have statues of the angel Moroni appeared atop Latter-day Saint temples? Is there a reason the statues don’t appear on top of all temples?”).

The Church has no policy regarding the use of statues of the angel Moroni atop temples. The general practice is to use the statue, but there are reasons it may be absent. In certain geographic locations, building codes or use permits restrict use of the statue. The Sydney Australia Temple, for example, originally had no statue because of building restrictions. The statue was added later after permission to do so was granted.

In some areas, a statue may give more ornamentation than desired. In other areas, the statue is absent because a wrong impression may arise from its presence (such as in areas where statues on church buildings are understood to represent objects of worship). Limits imposed by the architectural design of some temples may be another reason.

Sure would be nice to know the why and how Angel Moroni has been removed from Temples, the Layton Temple is the last one to get it and they will not return unless the next prophet says to do it then they will be put on all Temples until the decision of the following prophet.

[kimballclark]

Some of my temple file names had baptisms done years ago and no confirmation have been done. Some are clearly falling between the cracks. My wife and I asked our local temple about it and they told us that we can come and do the confirmations. So we have been making appointments and getting the confirmations done.
Personally I am not happy to have only the baptisms done and then wait, sometimes years, for a confirmation. We are older and don't really want to do the baptisms ourselves, but also do not want to wait years before any other work can be done. Doing the confirmations is quick and doesn't even require getting wet or anything associated with getting wet. So if we learn of baptisms without confirmations we are going to do the confirmations.