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The leadership keeps saying that the closures of chapels and stakes in the uk is all about strengthening the stakes. Is it strengthening stakes or is it that since covid the active membership has decreased so much that you dont have the people to hold all the callings in these stakes for example the recent announcement of the merger of poole and portsmouth stakes to be the new southampton stake and closing i believe 2/3 wards with at least one from either stake. But then the church continues to build new temples and close wards and stakes.