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Show 3 ing for school children, new and better roads, irrigation developments and the exploitation of natural r esources are among the many projects. . Our own Mission school is this year under the leadership of Bob Miller. Bob stopped in this Summer for a short visit, and we really had no reason to think we'd ever see him again. But the Mission got under his skin, and he couldn't satisfy his <;>wn conscience if he left us teacherless; accordingly he was back and ready to go to work well before school opened. VVe have a good enrollment again, and the children are doing well; every day they have a half-hour of religious instruction during the lunch hour (lunch is provided by the Mission) and all but one of the children have been baptized; many are communicants. Every Monday one or more of us pushes across the sands and in many instances wades a wash or two to go to the School at Aneth, some 35 miles up the River from Bluff. This is a government school, and as the children are nearly all from our Utah area, most of them are signed up by their parents for our Church, and we have an hour every Monday with them. They are beginners and first grade only, so that few if any can be ready for their first Communions, but they are passed on to our Church Missionaries or other priests as they go to other schools from there. The same is true of our Navaho Mountain children, 150 miles in the other direction, except that many of them go to the school at Kayenta, Arizona, where through the gracious permission of the Bishop of Arizona we are allowed to continue their instructions. The Kayenta School are kept through third grade, so that most if not all can be ready for Confirmation when the Bishop comes. One of the joys of sticking to a job in the Mission field is tha t of seeing one's work come to fruition. Sidney Beard and his wife (to use an Americanised version of the name) are instances. Sid was at first completely uninterested in what the Missionary had to say. His wife, one of the few Pah-Utes still living in the "Pah-Ute Strip" north of Navaho Mountain, was like- \ ' . |