In my area we have three large church congregations (called wards) and six small congregations (called branches). Because the members in the branches get tired of hearing the same people speak in church over and over, once a month the speaker is a guest from one of the wards. Today dh spoke in a small branch about 23 miles from here and the girls and I decided to go with him.
The church building in this town burned down about three years ago and had to be replaced from the ground up. I had heard the new church building was a double wide trailer and wondered what that would look like. It was beautiful! It may have come in on two trucks, but it was manufactured to be an LDS Church. It looked nothing like a "home trailer." I think it was two sections 16' x 80' each, so the square footage was about 2,580 square feet. One end had a small chapel with 48 chairs for the congregation and about 10 in front for the branch presidency, etc. I was impressed with the excellent organist until I saw her put both her hands up briefly during the song. She wasn't playing! It was some kind of electronic organ with a small screen that was used to select the hymn, then it played automatically OR it could be played manually. I've never seen such a thing before. Down one side of the building there were several small classrooms and on the other was a small lobby and offices and bathrooms. It was such a pretty, functional building that I'm sure the local church members there are very proud of their church.
We had obligations back in our town so we couldn't stay past the end of sacrament meeting, but we would have enjoyed staying and visiting. I think they were disappointed we couldn't stay because we increased their attendance by about 25%. :-)
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