When In Rome....

Here is a link to an article on the first LDS chapel built in Sardinia:

http://www.bellasion.org/texts/FirstChapel.html

For those of you who don't want to read the entire article, this is an excerpt describing how they paid for the chapel.

"They found a brick yard. It was stacked with bricks. They used to ship a lot of it across the channel to the mainland of Italy, but during the war it was too dangerous to ship. They were sinking everything! So, they had a real big stack of it. We found out we could buy it real cheap... for cigarettes. We had an allotment of cigarettes which we traded for bricks and work. And those men built us a building for a carton of cigarettes... They also built us a nice mess-hall, down there, and then at night we had shows, [movies] down there... 
When we built it, the lumber was awful scarce, so we found a telephone pole which was as long as the building was. We found a carpenter shop who could cut it. So they cut that pole in half and they used that for the main roof hold and we kept the rest of it and cut it down for the little rafters. And then they took bamboo for the sheeting, then we put the tile roof and made a nice little building, down there".