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Show ( - - .. - iAGE TWO --Midwinter 1952 N.L. may have to stay quite a Mlile yet. And of course Father Botelho is at San Juan Baut ista most of the. time, coming in to St Christopher J s only when I h ave to be awn.y OV()l' :':;un(: ~y. So t l1at le e.ve s the three of us hGre. IIRun ragged and loving every mi::'mte 'of it" is our theme-scn:s . We pretend to gripe aboll t h av1 ng mure to do than anybody co3.J.,.(! do., a:':ld V'le r egret having to ~eg lect so much tha tis vi t al., ';) u t we re ally do love it, 8 nd 'In] y wi Gh that more voluntuers' 1¥0uld want to share our joys and our bU.rdens, so . that we could re ally expand the work a s we r:hculd, and not be .tZontent me:> ely to hold the l:i.ne s. . . • How a b c'uc ;;",ot'.'i For a vacation, 01"' f'o.r 1{(-,) 6p s'l There are few gifts tha t";:e canr·.ot use! We need r..ot onl y priests cnd teachers,but gardeners, me e.r~ an ics, cooks, handymen und women •••••• Think about it! God may be calling you. . ST M. .RY OF THE MOONLIGHT Church, at Oljato, lar services every month for a long time now. We have good congregations, and there are few Navajos in the . area who have not hoard tho Gospel and been enrolled as ~atechumens, fOl~ we have rea,ch cd the area since 1944. A sect of Presbyterians h a s recently built a manse not far away, and have a re3ident preacher who does much good. I VJould not be the one to guess why they elected to settle under the shadow of om~ church instead of in some of the unevangelised parts of the Reservation; no good reasons ••• We wish .Mr and Mrs Patterson in the Lord. . had had regu- OUR HOSPIT.AL walls rise slowly. Snow held up the work for a 'long time, and the master mason retired to his home near Mexican Water, saying hetd be back wht'ln snow waS gone. Our fervent thanks to the s;t or maybe 5*~ 01' our mailing list who responded to our appeal for help in this project. They have mnde the beginning possible •••• Me antime, the new SCHOOL BUILDING is about completed, and is in use. Brother J~~iper has put in heroic hotins on the work, with the help of several Na vajos. ,It gives us a good- sized building, 20 I x 60 II with- two rOQrns, divided by a removable partition so that ~ovies or similar events can be held with a large audience comfortable seated. For the first time, Helen will be able to find floor-space, shelf-space, desk-space 8.dequnte to the needs of the growing school. To God be praise, to you,or benefactors, thanks. AND PERHAPS ·this is a good time to slip in a word about our ma::lling list. Most e.mphatically we want to say that we want everyhody Who wants them to ge t these Newslet.ters. Please understand this. In the last few years the list. hae g:'o\'JIl to such propor - tions that the expense is considerable. Now, all expenses of the Mission are actually borne by you, our supporters. How can we tell 'if nnybody I"ea.lly cares about getting the Newsletter? ~v'ell, we can tell that sO.me don't: if the Newslett~r comes back with postage due and "removed" scrawled on it. A hu...~dred or more come bacl{ like that at every mailing. And we have Et way of telling who does care if you write and say2111 like itihere is· something to help-you lf whether the enclosw'e be a few stamps or a hundred dollars, or whether 15he vvriter is sending useful articles. But between these two categories there are many people whose ~'ctions we cannot guess |