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Show aUN'l' FRANCIS'l'IDE NEASLBTrl'ER, 1947 --- ... -- - .... ......-.~ ..~. ·<).\JNT CHHIS'roPlIEu.-' -S-- -f-US-S..,.I..-O.,..H -- TO ~L'H; F;~ V-l::JT:T;-~w,--ma:b--,,~ ....: _. .: .. . .... - ~- ,.' ~ . . C IT · : .. {J .. . FIRST NEV/..)LETTER since "2:astertide--we I ve just been too busy doing thlngs to take time to tell about themt And now as we l ook back ove r the thinc:s that have happened, they all seem equally important, as steps in a constant forward m8.rch. 'rhe pestilence passed , '7ith no los~ of lives, but we! kept school closed till April J4 , 0..8 a safety precaution. At the end 01~ the month FathGr Liobler had to go to MedfoI{l, Ore,3on, as (1e18- gate from Utah to the Synod of the r8.cific . I t was a beautifu). trip, into a hi therto unkno\;,vn state, [md nH1.r.:y nen co:ntacts v[ere made, Synod s es::>ion s are notoriotlsly bores ome , but wlv:;)n Father Liebler was given five minutes to tell of the ,wo r k at the I::Iicsion , the' Synod unanimously requested that the time be extended, No b etter indication of interest could be expected .. IT'S· BEEN a summer of young p e opl€; h~re. From various parts of the . country th8y came to !lelp us in our' work, and to taste· the life of the We :::< t. ;rie often had fifteen or more a t the table. rrhey all \'Iorked, of cour se, but they a te U~l out of house and home, I;md our larcier 8.swell 3.8 OlU' bank account are :Ln ser:l. OUS condition in c onsequ(-';D'ce . ('llvell wishors plc'ase take n o t'e, if not acti on.) They took a Good s~are of the Slli;~er irri g&tion ditch work, grubbed woods frum t h e garden, stacked and l oaded and unloaded hay , dug a v ecet~ble storage pit, he l pod in the daily chores, io,nd did i:lany other thinr:s . _ . . 1;'[0 ' V·3 had a Bapt::Lsm nearly every month, and of cour."lO r J JJ.!o:.iou :::; instruction g oes on e ven when school i :, not in sesJ ion. we made our first j e ep~ trip to ~o nt oz uma Creek tho latter part of ,Tune ; f our' of us ~}f;ont a ful l week vi si ting -hoghcms a :'1d conducting cottago prayor :V!lOot i nss dUr' i.nC' tho day , and T-.1ass 8very morning, at ::mch Dl£'.ce3 as VIO '.I2rC :LEv:Ltod to do so. Huch !!lore a.': this sort of.' i,f()l'k i' cmlsills to be d ono . HadwG he.ld t o lowor st.andards, we could he.vo baptisod fi f'L.y to sev~nty -fiv ~ Navajos on .this trip al'ono, for a.i.'ter ll;~ vin:~ t he ChriE; 'ci ~m :..oo li2~ ion oXl'lainGu to them they almost all 'i~;'; ;':JLif:L c< ':~ G 1:h C':~y ~1 ~ ~ ,,,~, t. anco of the Fc.lth. \\~ EARLY in -:JuIy Pa thor Li .:blor wont to Window Rock ·to attend '-'1:,..~ ~\,~ the 1'r:Lbal Council Meeting . It was his £:irst I \ <,\~ expoT'i onco , and a touch:LnG one . Ei'fort is really I) ," . ~ . beinc made to teach tho Navajo people ho\'l to l,... j {';, \ fo ve:.:'n th f3m~0 lv 0 ~ and whi l e s cri(;t parliamuntary \ '\(\ "-~. 1,\ ..... "\. J. al}\T is a b i t too i nvolv ed for them at this stage, / 1\\ (... .. ,... '·)\ they are de finit;oly l c;[tr.lillr: to respect each ~\ ~ .., .. .. ./ do lo.r-~8. tc:' s opin~.on , on d t 0 pool tht~ wisdom of ~ ~ . , f.'·t ."!') ·;" sa.c::o s ., '!lJ/iLl ch o:f: t!J.e 8. ccenda r o~nained uncon- I !.... \. ~"<I. ~ ... L :" .1. ~ _. " , si o!" ed ccftOl' «feur de.ys] pa;'t;i~l duo to the lonc, windedncss of delogate s, and pa r t ly to t ho fact ~ hat e verythinG had to be said twice-o: nco in Navaj 0 and onc ::; i:c. Engli sh . Our sympathies went out to the interproter '.'i.ho had t o ::,"ondOl' eq.uivalcnts for some of tho legal phI'nseolof,y and fO l· c;ns~c or!.ltory . VI SIIJ,IORS GALOHEt Wo haven't ctarod to c ount tho .total. or course , they to ol': time from ou;:, work, but many of them pitchod in and helped , ann all, we -arc sure, c urried ~_way g l \;wing accounts at: J |