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Show ' 59 Xmas NL OUR HE.I\RTIEST CHR ISTMAS GREETI NGS GO TO LL OUR FRIE IDS A D BENEF CTORS ! It i s our fervent prayer that God 's richest blessing may descend upon you all. Every evening throughout the year, before We disperse from Our Evenin Prayer in the church, we offer our intercessions fo r you , but as we come to the festival o f joy, when the whole world gives thanks f or t he great Gift to Mankind, \vhich is God taking Hu man Nature into Hi mself , We most particu larly desire that e veryone of you may share the joy that 1s ours in s erving the NavajO People , and bringing to them t h e Good News of Noel - - Emmanuel God with us. RAI N DEER r~ I NCE OU last Newsletter a few spectacu l ar events ~ ~ must be shared with 10u. We had c r i ed a bout the drought . No rain for full t wo y ears -- except s light sprinkles that scarce l aid the dust. Our prayers for rain seemed to receive the answer "No t yet , my chi ldre n" - - until t he f i rst o f October. Our weekly trip t o Aneth had t o be omitt ed, as the washes were running high and trails washed away and i mpassable. During d e er season \veather was f or the most part ideal, but towards the end came more and more r a in. Before and a f ter All Sai nts ' Day came deluges; even our monthly trip t o Olj e to was i mpossible -- lakes covered what had been desert -- u ntil a week after our regular announced dates . Deer season was t he bes t in our history. As loyal supporters of the State of Utah and its ish & Game Department , we h ave every yea r b ought a number of licenses , a nd hopefully put in a few days,as we could spare them from ou r work, i n the mountains. This yea:r, for t he first time, 'fIe were a ble to f ill our licenses -- 13 head -- and our deep-freeze. Sounds like a lo t of meat , and it must have felt like a lo t of meat f or Brother Juniper to prepar e f or t he freezing , but when you think of well over 2 thousand meals each month, it will not be too much. NHz~EKZgx I f it lasts until Christma s, we shall be f ortuna te. FIRE! FI RE! A sudden column of smoke .in tbis dry country -- especia lly during such a drought -- is a smoke signal for "grab a shovel and run, not walk!" But befor e we a t the J.: ission saw. t he bla.ck s moke from Leona's shade made of dry branche s and her tarpaper shack , the five children who had b een left home a lone had begun their rescue worko Beth, the eldest., has spent (;tiT many months of her young life i n Salt Lake Ci t y ~ Shriner!' hospital, where she was successfully treated for a severe congenital hip def ormation . We wonder i f t hey c ould have i ncluded first-aid procedure in~heir program! For--- when finally We got the story pu t t ogether, it seems that she got t he efi i l4:lPen .tJ-11_ out of the burni ng bui l ding, __ i j f $ife1B .yf! ~r~e y" HeJ:!. l~, ([ l)nt t ~ e e~ clothing w..e ablaze and t h e tender flesh already seare • Beth rolled her in the sand like an expert.** |