Deseret News Share this story The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints This article was first published in the ChurchBeat newsletter. You can to receive the newsletter in your inbox weekly. The backstory about the abandoned plans to build a Latter-day Saint temple in the Tooele Valley of Utah is about a decision by senior church leaders to avoid contention and division. On Tuesday, the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced it would not build the Tooele Valley Utah Temple in Erda, Utah. The decision stalled a year’s worth of work on the temple design and halted a housing development process.