Last Sunday, members of the Fruita Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which was burned down the week before, spread out among the other LDS churches in the valley to worship for the first time since the fire.
Megan Graves, who had attended the Fruita church with her family for years, said she made the nearly half hour drive to Orchard Mesa last weekend. Despite the drive, Graves said she was grateful to have a place to go.
âWe are fortunate here in the valley that we have other buildings and we have been able to relocate our displaced members to these buildings, which has been a huge blessing to all the members who did attend the Fruita chapel,â Graves said.