Elder Künzle, President Pimentel, Elder Weitzel
Visiting the Leest Branch is always a treat. It is a beautiful drive AND the members
sing, really sing.
Some photos of the building process are posted.
In the true pioneer spirit, members of the Leest Branch built their own meetinghouse under difficult circumstances…However,...the branch would not receive any supplies from the state building material providers. Gradually, members in Leest collected materials - a few building blocks at a time…it took them three years to collect the needed 55,000 cinder-like blocks and other materials before they could begin building. Often, a member purchased a single sack of cement at a time, with much gratitude, and added it to the collections of materials to build the meetinghouse. In March 1983 they broke ground for the meetinghouse and it was dedicated in 1990, 10 years after members began building it with their own hand. Taken from Church News, July 24, 1993
