The Memphis Tennessee Temple is the 80th operating temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. “The presence of the temple in the community will spark the Spirit of Christ in hundreds of people,” [1] promised Elder Gordon T. Watts of the Seventy at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Memphis Tennessee Temple. Travel time has been reduced from days to hours as Mormon temples have been built closer and closer. Today, some members will have less than an hour to drive. The Memphis Tennessee Temple serves more than 20,000 members in Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Missouri.