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Show ( Au.,lAs-t ) __ .RE.cEhT.T._-.-E.YEJ1TS -m ---""'-- AT SAINT CHhI STOPHER' S :U SSION BLUFF, Uta h . (Oct ·.V(; of t he ~-- , { p. s SU!IlJ2.tLQ.n., l 3t4J)...!- t's high time our frt cnds ~ er e br ought u ~ f ~ d ~ . t c --- no ner·.'sle tt er h:.ving gone out from hc r 8. since; s hor t'.y ;: ft (.r .-. E: st er. Tho pilgrimage from Rowl : nd H.:.ll, our Church school in Salt L c~ k2 City, hD.s b ~ comc 2n ,:nnut l GVent. Thi s YC" r the D c :.~ n, the ArchdG.:' con, Sen<: tor J cnldns, &Mr Fr .~l nl~ GI:cgory ROWLAND drov0 the c :,rs dOlv·n. It r,r::~ s fun for eVGrybody. We: HALL tri ed to sho::! th8 girls Monument ~ a l~ e y, but our PILGRHIAGE* pick-up s uffcr e ~ r:n ,:~ cut e nttc:.ck of clutch d8- f1ci encYi nnd h ~ d to b~ to~ ed b: ck from neGr Mc xic ~ n Ret. The ro:::,d inc udos probc..bly the steepest grLdes end sharpest turns . of any hight'r.,.y in the U. S. , ,md. the experience of steering :.~ towed c, r - over it 1s not to be soon forgotten--esp ccir..lly c?s the steerer had spent most ; of the night \"ii th gun on his shoulders w£'.tching .. for e. coyote-w'itch \vhich wc.s r e ported to be molesting "..: one of our Nevi ~ jo neighbors. On one grLde even the four-"F!heel drive of the . towing c <? r wc.s inr dequr te,but luckily on thr t rO::.d which often sees no tra ffic .f or dt ys r: t r time <:_ fri endly truck .. driver c ~ ce clong, r nd pulled up both c ~ rs to the t op. As the Utrth Convocr. t:i.on w;,:s not he-ld till mid-June, 1;',:0 W E;r~ una CORPUS CHRIlBTI CELEBRATION ~ ble to h~ ve our Corpus Christi c e l e br ~ tion on the Dry itself, and postponed it to the Oct ~ v e D~ y~ Our li ttlo Ch[:.pe:l w:.-.S p '~.cl~ e d to the bulging \'/:-'.lls, r.nd for the first time the ccnopy OV0r thE: Ble ssc:d S,,,cr:,ment Wt".s carri ed by f our N~ v !:. jos. (I::: pre-vious yec.rsvve h -'.d not h~~ d th:_t m;-ny <:,dult I,V 1(.: communlc:1nts) They perforiiJed their functi on 1;Ji th cr re : nd r e:v(;r-ence, though not wi thOl.1t s·ome · shytle ss " and s elf - cons ciousne ss, us one might expect. A Nav2jo SqUt!.Vl D.'· nce i"::'S b e ing h old ;'c r oss the River at the 52me time, . pres enting strong competi tion, so r:c were p~ rticul ~ rly pler s ed to see such good f tt cnd nc o . A Squr v Dr nce involves singing ,.,nd d£'ncing n enrly r ll night, ::nd it is custom~ ry for p ~ rticip n nts to sleep ~ost of the subsequent dey. We h~. d pl,:tnned r :1ces and g; .mes for the <,fternoon, hut in vi e \,' of ·the condiition of the people , we Ebnndoned th,"~ t proj0ct. . Although our building wor k is f o.r ,-·trom finished here .:'~ t st. Christopher's, we h~ ve got to the point where there is no grQat OUT STATIONS rush, as in previous yeers when ~e needed ~ roof over us . before snow c r.me . We r'. r e beginning to t '::.ke more s eri ously the r e sponsibility of eVC:.n .. gelising other pnrts of our V.'lst ['.r e , i:hich a s you know includes some 1500 sqqre miles. So thinly spre ::d is the population th~ t ·'It "'.ny given spot one Ci 'n re r:.ch only ::. s ev e r ely linited number of Na vRjos. Lpst summer we hpd m ~ d e o n~ trip t o Gouldlng's in Monument Ve,leey, where we held s ervic es in " r or:dsidc shZ·~ c k . The response h~ d been g~ o d,but we w8 r e ~, lnabl e a t the time t o f ollow up this beginning. This summer, however, \ ,0 h ' ve g::)ne not .:mly t o Monument V ~ lley, but t o. Aneth, whe r e r,e held s ervices in tho unused school-house, ~' nd h r va m.r·de ['. beginning c: t :·!cntezumu C,' nyon, where services were held out 0f doors. This l !::st post c "'n be · · ..·· · r ~. reached only by horse tr2il; r:hich is really rugg ed i,"!hen one hr.s to c :=,:rry bedding, food, w[,ter f.nd church p r~ r r. phe rn ;'. lia. Ho v~e v e r, V"Je con sider this Qutst::: ti on of prim.':' ry imp'Jrt::: nce; it i s our e ff ort t o |