The Logandale Chapel burned down yesterday and instead of focusing on the great loss...I've decided to focus on the great sacrifice of the Saints who built this great building. They gave everything they had and it was a great meeting place for many years. (No, I don't think I am using the word "great" too much here...) I am so grateful for their examples. I've decided to post some quotes from Kevin's Grandpa Jensen's Life History regarding the building of the Logandale Chapel... (Thanks for the pics Aus, these are the best I've seen...)
"As I remember at that time, it was a 30-70 program. The church paid 30% of the cost and we had to come up with 70% of the cost. Everyone had to donate labor. I gave one day a week, from my farm where I was dairying, then I hired a man, Bert Lyman, and I paid him one day's wages a week to go work on the chapel. So I was donating two days to work on the chapel, towards its completion. Everyone in the ward donated labor and money. I remember Grant Bowler used to get us together, and tell us that now we need another hundred dollars from every family to continue. (In today's money that would be around $800 - $1,000.00) So, somehow, I don't know how we did it, we came up with a hundred dollars. This happened week after week, month after month; more money was needed and somehow we all came up with the money. I remember the last Sunday we had in the school house. The chapel was not quite completed. We hadn't laid the floor in the recreation hall and we were laying this hardwood floor in the recreation hall at the time. Finally, Tom Leavitt said, dadburnit, let's meet in the new chapel, I'll lay the floor all night if necessary, but let's meet in the new chapel - and that's literally what we did. We laid floor way into the night, so we could get the floor finished. Anyway, the floor got laid down. On Christmas Eve we had Mrs. Miller tell a story and give all the kids a sack of goodies. We had nothing but peanuts, and an orange or apple in the sack. We were so poor we had a hard time giving each child a sack of candy. This was about the situation for all of us, we had given everything we had."...Glenn Jensen
"As I remember at that time, it was a 30-70 program. The church paid 30% of the cost and we had to come up with 70% of the cost. Everyone had to donate labor. I gave one day a week, from my farm where I was dairying, then I hired a man, Bert Lyman, and I paid him one day's wages a week to go work on the chapel. So I was donating two days to work on the chapel, towards its completion. Everyone in the ward donated labor and money. I remember Grant Bowler used to get us together, and tell us that now we need another hundred dollars from every family to continue. (In today's money that would be around $800 - $1,000.00) So, somehow, I don't know how we did it, we came up with a hundred dollars. This happened week after week, month after month; more money was needed and somehow we all came up with the money. I remember the last Sunday we had in the school house. The chapel was not quite completed. We hadn't laid the floor in the recreation hall and we were laying this hardwood floor in the recreation hall at the time. Finally, Tom Leavitt said, dadburnit, let's meet in the new chapel, I'll lay the floor all night if necessary, but let's meet in the new chapel - and that's literally what we did. We laid floor way into the night, so we could get the floor finished. Anyway, the floor got laid down. On Christmas Eve we had Mrs. Miller tell a story and give all the kids a sack of goodies. We had nothing but peanuts, and an orange or apple in the sack. We were so poor we had a hard time giving each child a sack of candy. This was about the situation for all of us, we had given everything we had."...Glenn Jensen
3 comments:
Quincy pulled that out last night and read it to me. That's amazing. How great they really were to sacrifice so much for a chapel. Serious snif snif!
I can't believe that it burned down. While living at Warm Springs, before the Moapa church was built, we use to drive in and go there.
Good post woman! Kev's talk was really good on Sunday. It's nice that we have the same people, just a different Sunday home....are Kev's meetings at the new Bishops office, or Moapa? Love ya!
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