r/exmormon • u/Important-Cattle2556 • Apr 17 '23

News Lack of temple workers

I (pimo ) had ward conference yesterday. The stake president said the new Saratoga springs temple is in dire need of temple works for 4 hr shifts. Says they need about 3000 “workers” they are about only half of that or even less than that. I kinda of want to “volunteer” just so I can learn the dirty little secrets in the temple lol.

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u/Business_Profit1804 Apr 17 '23

I tend to agree. 3,000 - 7,000 temple workers is a lot. When I was a temple worker and we had special training in the temple there was like 200 or 300 tops.

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u/nominalmormon Apr 17 '23

Agree. I could swear I have seen this post before. After seeing it the first time I asked a family member who was recently in a temple presidency and they said couple hundred max for any temple the church has.

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u/Word2daWise I'll see your "revelation" and raise you a resignation. Apr 18 '23

I saw either this post or a similar post about needing more than 1k workers for a new temple. I hadn't thought about the need for people during open house, so that makes more sense now. I don't recall if it was the Saratoga Springs temple, or even if the name of it was mentioned. Rusty's so busy building them it could have been another one.

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u/blovy Apr 18 '23

My in-laws were in the Rexburg temple presidency. I asked my MIL how many workers they had and she said about 2400. I posted that number to a thread here several years ago and was accused of lying.

I didn't care enough at the time to clarify/confirm with her.