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Show - 2, # 10- work was resumed on the following day, and the last stone was set into the walls just before Easter Day. Our friend George Kelly of McElmo Canyon, a professional landscape artist, has visited us and has drawn up ,a beautiful scheme which calls for many small trees and still more shrubs. ,It is too late now for spring planting, but we may be able to get some in after Summer's heat is over and the rest will have to wait for another Spring. The appeal for an electrical adding machine has been answered. Th,a nks again, Leona and Roy! June 1, 1971 -T_ At this time of the year the Navajos are busier than ever. Unfortunately this is reflected in att,endance at Sunday services. Lambs and kids come fast at this time of the year, and they need special attention beCC'l.'lSe the lack of good grazing in Winter and early Spring res~lts in insuff i~ ~ ent milk in the ewes and does; pop bottlea of canned milk with huge rubber 14pples have to be applied regularly arj often. Herding is necessary all the yeaT round, of course, but usually one person can take care of that, but lambing time and shearing time make demands on the whole family. These Spring activities are the life of our People and we cannot complain; perhaps when the new church bvilding is in use we can arrange a Sunday evening Mass. Visitors since our last Message have come to us not only from various parts of Utah, but also from Oregon, Hawaii, California, Oklahoma, Michigan, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico,Connecticut, Ohio, D.C., New York, South Dakota and Per.nsylvania. Only those who have traveled on our roads can appreciate the compliment paid us by these visitors! Many ask us about Sarah Hutchins, the 101-year old Navajo whose picture was in our Message #5. For lack of proper facilities at home for her care, she is being cared for at the Seventh-Day Adventist Hospital nearby, so that her family can visit her often. Almost totally blind and deaf, communication is not easy, but the universal language of love will always function. Bill Sutherland, known to many of our readers personally , and to all as the draftsman of the plans for our church building, contributes the following: An architectural criticism of the Church of St. Mary-of-the-Moonlight being built here at Hat Rock Valley sho~ld not be done by me. Trying ,to be objective and honest I must say it's not the most beautiful church in the world, even if we in our prejudice think it is! Although I made all the drawings, Father Liebler, Helen, Brother Juniper and Joan did the designing; thus they were the architects, I was merely the draftsman. A - -- |