These are our neighbors.  Between the church property
and the road there is the section that you see above.  The
cows, sheep and goats run freely.

It has been a very busy week.  We have a new Mission President.  President Batt.  He is from Idaho Falls, Idaho. We went to Flagstaff for a Zone Conference to meet President Batt and his wife.  Flag is 1.5 hours directly south from our area.  In August we go to Gallup New, Mexico for our next Senior conference.

We have the wild west next door.  These animals belong to the neighbor behind us.  There is a locked gate that goes into the church parking lot.  Between the fence you see and a second fence and cattle guard these animals feed on the range grass.


This is the Benally family.  You can see their garden in the back.  Delyne, the Father was baptized in 1987 and was not fellowshipped.  He has been called as a Greeter and will be ordained to the Aaronic Priesthood soon.

 Devon is our first convert baptism.  He was so excited to be baptized.  Tom is his Uncle. Devon and his brother read the scriptures every day.  They are both very sharp individuals.  Devon's Mother has started coming back to the church.  Tammie, his mother works at Waweep in the boat rental area. 



Devon Delmar and Tom Hoover.

Each area have what is known as the Chapter House.  This is essentially what we would call the area "Town Hall"  The area that we are in is the Gap Chapter.  This is where most of the land activity starts. 
You can lease an acre of ground on the reservation for life.  You make application to the Chapter House.  The application fee is $30. They survey the ground you want and you can then build a house or move a trailer on the site.

EvelynTsiniginni.  She is the secretary of the
Gap Chapter House.  It was through her efforts
the the Branch were able to get the land to
build the building.  She was one of the early
participants in the Indian Placement Program

Karen Manyturquoise.  She will be baptized
this coming Sunday.  She has been called
as the Ward Translation Specialist.

Each Sunday we have a number of the older sisters that come and do not understand English.  In the clerks office we found a case full of hearing devices that they used during the dedication services of the building.  The person conducting generally tires to speak in some Navajo but it is difficult to have that older group understand all that goes on.  So we suggested that we call a translation specialst to use a transmitter and sit in the meeting and translate for the older sisters who have the receivers. The first Sunday we handed out 3 receivers.  Last week we handed out 7 so we are getting the "older generation" involved in our meetings. Due to the fact they are female we will have increased participation in the Matriarchal society because "Grandma" says so. Karen will serve as the branch specialists to translate for that group.