Change to Baptistry Appointments

As most members know, baptistry appointments at the Bountiful Utah Temple are fully booked through January 2022.  In trying to open up more opportunities, the Temple Department has changed the way baptistry appointments are made.  In the past, if an appointment was made for only a small few to come to the baptistry, they would have the entire hour to themselves.  Although this method has its advantages, it greatly limits the number of patrons we can serve per appointment. 

 

The scheduling system has now been changed so that the one hour appointment time is not full until a total of 16 patrons have been scheduled as participants (those to be baptized or confirmed).  Therefore, it’s very important that the number of participants a member inputs into the scheduling system for their appointment be precise and correct.  Contrary to the past, members should not recruit additional patrons to join their appointment, but instead should remain true to the number of participants they input into the scheduling system.  If members with upcoming baptistry appointments are unsure of how many participants they input into the system, they can view, and change if necessary, their appointment details in the My Temple Appointments section on the Church’s temple scheduling site.  

 

This change in our scheduling system will open up many additional baptistry appointment times.  The temple will also be adding additional appointment times for other ordinances in the coming weeks.  As always, it’s very helpful when members go online and cancel any appointment that they cannot attend so that their appointment slot is available to others.

 

We sincerely appreciate the opportunity to serve you in the House of the Lord,

The Bountiful Utah Temple Presidency