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Show Page 2 ) THE NAVAJO , BLUFF, UTAH, 1)\ STgEhIDEt 1 949 white mants way. NORRIS SANDOVAL, of whom we wrote in our last Newsletter that we hoped 'we mi ght educate him for a native leader, has"reverte d to the blanket 11. His uncle came for him) took him , back to herd sheep. Le tt er s you have written him have been ta]:::en to h im; 'vve found him fat and happy, apparently, in his work. We now have thr e e other board i n ~ pupils ...... as fbI' ouI' hopes for them, we're just not telling l ••• FATHER NASH, after five months of valliant strug gl e ; felt he had to go back to the milder climate of California to t ~gain his h ealth. We wept to ,see him gOj a~1d long for the day of his!eturn •••• Three lay people hkve tri ~ dthe lifo of the Missiort, with poor success. We , to whom this is Hom e ~ seem n ot to r ealise h ow tough one has to b e to take it. Bowe v erj a s we write, Raymond Bartholomew, is visiting us, and plans to r eturn after a bri ef trip to the Ea{l t •• ,.We are in cor r e spond ence with t wo priests who may decide t o join usj pray f or t hem and for us that ri ght d e cisi ons 1"vill be made •••• NANCY STURGES and MAR CIA PAHKER have b een s p ending East er holidays with us, to the great deligl;lt of st aff and Navajos. \ 1 \\ \ ,'j ~', \ ,1\ _'~"".' I ~ .\ OUR Holy We ek and Easter solemniti e s were ob- .,. , "ih s erved as u sual, a tt endanc e was b e ttor than ! \~ 1/ . in previ ous y ear s, but parti cularly the : I ... ~; r "---" i mpr ovement of par t icipation on the part of ,:~ " : 7 C' \;~ Ii the Navajos. The Palm s unday Proc e s s ion with , , \'" ~. Ii \ its exquisite c h ants, the Maundy Vigil, t h e \ I \\ } '" .' ~ 1;)"\ \ solemn rites of Good Friday and Holy Satur- ", day, all went b e t ter b e cause we had been practicing the music for weeks in advance a t cate chism which fol l ows daily Evensong. On Eas t er Day Mrs. Tom Sta sh was baptised--the River was too high for h er to get across the day before--and she t ook the Christi an name of Kathryn. She had n ever h a d a p ersonal name b e fore but had be en known as "Whitehorse's Daughter". Her son Billy and h er grandson J im Polic e are among our boarders. KATHRYN WITH all the other adults and older children who have b een baptised sinc e last Septemb er will b e pre s ent ed to Bishop Clark for Confirmati on wh en he c ome s on or soon aft er As cension Day. ' SUMMER WORKERS have app lied in unp r e ced~nt e d number s ; s e v en ha&e a sked to spend the who l e summer, a s many more want to come for briefer periods. It is obvious tha t our a c commodo.tiol1.'3 will be strained to the utmost --- tha t doe sn't mat t er; the important thing is tha t we ought t o g ot more a c c on:plished t h an ever before. Anybody wan t to l end us a g o od wall t ent or t wo? WE c a nno t closo without an e xpr e ssion of deep gr a titude t o ' all who have made themsolve s rea l ], y a p c.rt of the Mi ss j.on by t h eir gifts, many of which sh ow h or Gi c s c; Jfc-den i a l ··-·a c Clur:ter- girl ~ n Ari zona s e n d s us all h or t i ps ,~ 3 ',:-i.[1 ,-,w s end s ~!t: 1 o'u.t of h er pension, a gr oup of n e ar- bl i n d fo lk .s(;l)d ]l,e; ri: ...' di cal :3VTJP ·I. i ";8 - ·- ::md s ~/ it goes making us gr a t oful t o God a n d t o ma r. ,. and ma k i Y'.g us s queeze every cent I |
