Repairman

Haskey Roof repair

Helper.  Even though a little enebriated

Barry and Billison

Baptism of Zola Yazzie

Zola Yaxxie & Kylie Meyer Her daughter

Barry, Judy Yazzie, Lyndy Zola and Kylie

Elder Davis, Zola and Elder Rindlesbacher

 We have been working with Zola for 13 Months.  She has had a lot of pressure put on her from family.  Her brother was baptized many years ago.  He would not come back to church to be confirmed.  They went to his house to confirm him.  He has not been back to church since!

Wood Project and gardens

Getting Wood

Wood Project

 Every year thr Owner of Jacob Lake Lodge gives us the cut wood that is left over from winter.  We det our members to get the wood for use over the wibter months

Cattleman Kids by new garden

Jane and Jerry Tisi

Charese Bennett by their garden.  they put in one section without sheep manure and it did not grow.  so we expanded the garden.  They will use the excess for cash crop.

 We took Zola Yazzi her daughter Kylie and Judy Smith to Sy George Temple to do baptism for the dead.

 Lorenzo brown Great Grandmother Hogan  Constructed in the late 1800's

Hogan -built late 1800

Lamp made by Lorenzo Brown as a gift to us

Native American crafts



Daisy's House

             This is a beginning of a rug that Daisy is weaving.  (Right)  The picture blow is a rug dress that is very poular at graduation time for all of the Native American girls at graduation from High School.  This takes her about a week of weaving to do this.  Her clan sister is also weaving a dress below.  They sit and do this for hours.  In the lower right in the picture you can see her wood stove that warms the Hogan in winter.  behind her shoulder is the front door.

 This is Angela that is weaving a rug to sell.  They weavew the dresses and then they also make their own jewelry.  The sisters have given Mom several peaces of jewelry.


Daisy



Angela Yazzi

 This is Angela that is weaving a rug to sell.  She does not speak any English so she says.  I think she understands but will not talk to you in English for fear she will make a mistake.  This would be a controversy and they do not like controversy.

 

This is a sample of the Book of Mormon Heirloom quilt that the Stake Relief Society is doing. Each sister that wants can do one of these.  Each block is 15 X 15 and portrayes a scene from the Book of Mormon. 

Book of Mormon Heirloom Quilt

The block on the left is Ammon protecting the King,s Sheep.  Each figure in the block is cut out and fused to the material on paper then transferred to the block.  When the quilts are finished in August they will then be put on display at the Stake Women's Conference in September.

Ammon Protecting the King's Sheep

 

Relief Society Birthday Party

Table decorations

This past week end we celebrated the Birthday of the Relief Society.  We had 19 sisters in attendance,  It was fun for the sisters to get together.  This is not something that they do very often.  Even this little activity caused controversy.  The Relief Society President lives on the East side of the Highway collapse.  She did not want to come down so she called some of the sisters in the branch and told them we needed to postpone or cancel the event.  We had already ordered the cake and had to drive for an hour to Tuba City to pick it up.  We had already made a deposit on the cake.  We called one of the counselors and told them that the call had been made and what did she want to do?  Sister Dalgai said no way we were going to cancel. We put together an alternate menu.  We were supposed to have chicken salad. The Relief Society Pres bought chicken (frozen) mayonnaise some fruit and a big bag of tossed salad.  She then said that the dinner would be postponed until Sunday.

Gavern Begay, Marry Smith and Delores
Secody

The counselors said no!  So sister Gardner and I traveled to Page and purchased three Lasagna, Family size and drove back to Bitter Springs.  Four hour trip plus an hour in Page.  The sisters loved it.  We asked some sisters to decorate one of the rooms with their items that represented their culture.  (see below)  We invited other sisters to come and cut up the fruit and they had a ball. We had some of the sisters that hardly knew each other laughing and having a great time. They are so isolated that the members hardly get together for things such as this.  It is frustrating how a few can make it tough on the group.Many of the sisters that came were there because we had Susie Gardner make some cute invitations and we delivered them to each of the sisters in the Branch.  They have not had these types of activities.  The all really enjoyed the time together.  Oh, the Relief Society President did come and was very mad that she was not told the "time" and about the activities for preparing the food.

All of these items are handmade by Agnus Yazzi.



Hand made Items by Agnes Yazzi.  Note the Tree of life
Rug.  The wool was carded and spun to make the rug.

Zola Yazzi.  The bear is made from a Blue Bird flower sack
and the stuffing is from old stuffed animals that she has cut
apart and used.  The Hagan look familiar?



 (Below)The large blanket in the middle under the basket is a horse blanket. The boots in the upper right are made from deer skins. There is a Tree of Life rug on the upper left there is a corn grinding stone. The rug on the left middle is the Storm Pattern.

Evelyn Tsosie. 



Evelyn Tsosie



Birthday Cake



Upper Right is a small Papoose Board

Lambing Season

Jane Tisi feeding the lambs

 It is lambing season.  When a new lamb is born if the mother feels she has enough milk she will let the lamb feed.  If there may not be enough milk then she rejects the lamb.  The green mark on their head is a way to tell which ones are not accepted.  A corresponding mark is placed on the mothers head.  This particular mother had triplets.    This is grandma Tisi.  The lambs are fed three times a day.  Morning, noon and night.  The bag on the counter is powedered lamb milk.
The lambs have a pen in the back bedroom where they stay until they are old enough to be on their own.


Gma Tisi feeding the lambs. Elder G

They stay in a little pen in the back bedroom.  They are being fed in the kitchen.  Dinner is cooking on the stove.  When we came she had them sitting on the table.  The bottle they are using they found in the gutter while they were herding the sheep.  When we walked in the door the little granddautghter grabbed one of the lambs and handed it to me.


Jane feeding



Note the black, brown and white lambs

The lambs that are accepted by the mother is left in the pen.  There are goats in the pen and they are next to have their babies.  The next activity is to shear the sheep.  That will come in May.  Gma Tisi will then wash, card and then spin yarn from the sheep that they shear.  The larger smaller lamb below was the first to be born in the flock.  They had one lamb that did not live.

These lambs were accepted by the mother

The brown wool along with the black is used in the weaving of rugs.

Sister G getting her ears nibbled

 This is a picture of the road that comes down to Bitter Springs from Page.  At the top of the picture is thew area where most of the Navajo sell their beads. 
This highway is owned by the Navajo Tribe.  The argue who can give tickets on the road and now who is going to fix the road.  It is a mess. 
In the bottom picture our house is to the left and down the mountain.  We can see the bottom of the slide from our kitchen window. The estimate for getting this mess cleaned up is 3 to 9 months if they  can ever quit fighting over who is going to fix the mess.
It was not an earthquake.  It was a "geologic event"  which is a nice way of saying Navajo engineering.e
Th kids have to travel an extra four hours a day to get to school.  They are looking for places to hold school in the valley.  The car traffic in our area has been reduced from 100 cars and trucks a day to 10.