It's not a matter of efficiency George. It's a matter of not going past a certain point where they've, well......."gone over to the dark side of the force" is pretty close in the modern parlance. The Bishops decide what and how far they can go in their church, which is to say, their district or group. Up here they can only use 2 cell flashlights for instance and can only use compressed air for spraying finishes. Can't run air motors or use hydraulics. Other churches in other areas can and some can use other things besides those. It's part of trying to stay at a level of modernity that doesn't let them get so "big" that they don't have jobs for the kids or neighbors, so that they don't need the farm and neighbors and community to survive. It's not about doing it hard way because they want to, but because it keeps them humble, more or less.
I don't agree with everything they do, or how they do it, but I can admire that they stick to their guns when it would be sooooooooo much easier to just give in and go "English".
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