Sad.

Fire destroys LDS church near Seattle

October 16th, 2010 @ 6:39pm

MUKILTEO, Wash. -- Officials in the Seattle area are investigating a fire that destroyed a meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

A Seattle NBC affiliate, KING 5 TV, is now reporting the fire was deliberately set.

Fire crews responded to the fire at 3 a.m. in the city of Mukilteo Saturday. When the roof collapsed, firefighters quickly realized they would not be able to get inside to fight the flames, so they took a defensive position.

"They were walking around the building and they could hear movement, which sounded like the roof was going to collapse. They called for a second alarm," said Brian McMahan, assistant fire chief with the Mulkiteo Fire Department.

"The building has collapsed in the middle and has burned outward through the sides, and collapsed all the way through," McMahan said.

The building serves as a meetinghouse for two wards, or roughly 800 members of the Church in the area. One member said, "It's devastating. The good news is they'll rebuild it and it'll be another great building to serve the community and members around here."

I feel sad for the people that set this fire. Its unfortunate that people would use their agency to make such a terrible choice. If the church wasn't true we wouldn't be continuing to be persecuted, but we are and will be until that great day!

Remember this great prophecy:

"The Standard of Truth has been erected; no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing; . . . the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent, till it has penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished, and the Great Jehovah shall say the work is done."