Rancho Sierra Vista

I haven’t written in quite some time, life is demanding on the rez! The senior sisters took me and another sister to Kismish in Window Rock. Kismish is Christmas in navajo. They use the word for their Christmas craft shows etc. We went to bazaars and pawn shops and to a museum. Had a wonderful day. Sister Klepacz has been on the rez over 18 months and seems to know where just about everything is.

To volunteer at one of the senior centers we had to get a Navajo food handlers permit. That meant, find a chapter house giving the course and sign up for it and then show up. We sat through the four hours of lecture and took the test and now have our permits. Without a permit we are not allowed to even wipe off tables. Even with the permit we still get to unload trucks and sort and put away food. Its work and its fun.

We have had two dinner appointments since we got here. Both belagona’s (white) but it was nice to be invited and the food was great.

Jack turned 67 and we celebrated our 39th anniversary attending a zone meeting. It has been fun and we have really enjoyed ourselves. Jack went to Round Rock to help Brother O’Daniel strip logs to make a hogan. Charlee went with him and came back looking like a bottle of red hair dye and been poured over him. He looked terrible. Bad dye job.

President Gill called and told us the senior couple coming to take over our place here in Chinle and teach seminary had flunked their physicals so we were to stay in this trailer and now I get to teach seminary once again. This is such a neat blessing in my life. Jack is my helper and support. He does a great job. Jack was assigned along with all the other things we have gotten ourselves into to fix things that have broken down for the FM office. Yesterday we went to Crystal to see about fixing the heater in the missionary couples trailer. Dad likes to be busy and so do I.

Monday we started seminary with eight students and today we had ten.