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Show 3 was accepted. When the children came home last Spring, the harvest was ripe. All the adults as well as the preschool children were baptized, Mass was celebrated and the Bread of Life communicated to them. Literally years of labor preceded this moving experience, but it bears witness, as do many similar ones, to the soundness of the two-fold approach. * * * IAIS I write, your Christmas boxes are ar-riving, and the work of sorting in preparation for the feast is in full swing. We have every hope that our usual program for the Great Day will be possible - High Mass, archery, dinner and the distribution of gifts. As you make your devotions to the newborn Saviour, offer a prayer for us and our People . . . . and Catherine Pickett writes: /TfHERE has been a continuance of daily outpatients, coming with all sorts of ailments from dandruff to athletes' foot and all way stations. Probably they number 45 a day, on the average. It has been a joy to have Dr. Oaks from Provo and Dr. Bayer from Dragerton to take care of specialized cases. Deliveries continue at a good rate, justifying the statement of the Trader who told Father: "The Navajos will take over the Country without firin' a shot!" Two especially interesting patients have come lately. Alice arrived one evening in a pickup, and twenty minutes later- her baby came. When we asked where she came from, we were amazed to find that it was 400 miles away. Still more surprising was the story she told of her previous baby - it seems she had started for the Mission, but delivered the baby in the pickup while on the way - so just turned around and went home. We'll never know how she got the courage to try it the second time. Anne arrived in a wagon. The River is now low enough so that a wagon can safely be driven at a tested fording place. She said they lived a long way off, and would have to just stay at the Mission until labor time. She did; she stayed four days, and the baby came. Two days later the husband drove up in the old springless wagon - doubtless having got the news by that mysterious "radar" known only to the Indian. |