GRAND JUNCTION, Colorado — Colorado is no stranger to members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
In 1846, a group of new Latter-day Saints from Mississippi temporarily settled in Pueblo, Colorado, before continuing to the Salt Lake Valley. More than 30 years later, in 1877, another group of converts arrived from the southern United States and established a more permanent Latter-day Saint community in Pueblo.
Almost 180 years later “we are now opening what is undoubtedly western Colorado’s most important chapter with the completion of a house of the Lord in Grand Junction,” said President Jeffrey R. Holland , president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, at the dedication of the temple on Sunday, Oct. 19.
President Holland said that in a time of division, hostility a