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.

Bead Work And Rugs

30 X 25 size

Larger ryg

This is a rug that has been woven by Lucille Begay.  She sells these to make money.



There small colored beads that make up the body.  The
process is like weaving only it is done by using small beads

These are done by Lorenzo Brown. They would not let us in the first time we came. Through using Ammon techniques they have become great friends. We are going to do a garden for them. You can see the size of the beads in the tray at the left.

This is a good way to sweep your floor.  With a rake.  This is the Hogan of Zola Yazzi.  She has carpet remnants around the edge.  The stove is in the lower right hand corner.  We have been teaching this lady and her daughter. Kylie and Zola are below. T\his is the lady that makes the little Hogans for us.  Kylie like most teens has a lot of pressure about going to church from her friends and some family.

Kylie and Zola Yazzie

 This is the little miniature Hogan that she made for us.  We have helped her sell several of these.  They are made of very simple materials.

 We had a chance to visit the Honeymoon trail that ran past the chapel.  They would cross the Colorado at Lees Ferry and then go to the boundary of the Kaibab forest and then up toward Kanab and then onto to the St. George Temple.  There is a spring located at the bend where they turn North.  The camped here and up by the spring they carves their initials in the face of the rock.  They have identified 128 different names that have been carved.  The black names have been put there with axle grease.

 

Spring in the rock

Windsor Castle.  Named after Original settler

Winslow Castle is located on the Paiute Reservation outside of Fredonia.  This property was used to range the cattle that were donated for tithing in the early days of the church.  It is 7 miles west of Fredonia.  At the height of activity the church had over 1,000 head of cattle here.  They also made cheese at this location.  The ranch was sold when changes in the season made less food available for the cattle.

Original work area

Residence house

 We were fortunate to have Devin and Ashley. our grandkids come before Christmas.  Devjn did a service project and brought toys, clothes and gifts to our people.  We were very hapy to have them stay with us for our Christmas Party,  We distributed gifts to all of our Branch Members and they helped up put together the packages and the quilts and blankets and deliver them to the Branch Members.

Playing games

Jarius and Janelle fell in love with Ashley and Devin.  They are not used to having someone to play with.  That is not done in the families on the Res.

Judy Yazzie- They are a great family that are
members of our Branch

Grandma Sellers.  She is 83 years old.  Note the progression
of the Arthritis in her hands.  Devin also helped her put
on a pair of new keds.  She was really happy for the support.
She has lost most of her toes.

Devin made Mr Sellers Bed with new sheets



Home of the pups

 While the Devin and Ashley were here we found some puppies at a house of one of the members that were away from home.  W went up each day and fed the pups.  They barely had their eyes open when we found them.

The side of the house where the pups were
found

 Animals like the dogs are treated as things.  They would not think of allowing the dogs in the house and each of them have 6 or 7.  For the most part the dogs are left to feed themselves.



Sorting the gifts that were brought

Devin, Grandma and Ashley in front of the
Vermilion cliffs



Gayle Tisi, Janiel and Jarius



Shania Dante and Santa



NEW SHOES FOR GRANDMA SELLERS

Begay,s at the Christmas Party.  This
is our Medicine Man that joined the
Church



St George Group

 We had a group from St George that brought food, Gifts, clothes, tissue and they served us our dinner at the Christmas Party.  This is some of the items that they brought to us.
It took us three days to sort through these clothes and deliver them to those that we knew needed warm coats, clothes and sweatshirts.  Toilet tissue is another very popular item that we now carry in our car.

We fed 175 people at the Christmas dinner including our guests from St. George.  We had 40 non-members that came. 
At Thanksgiving we served 107 people at that dinner.  We have made a little progress with the people in the area.  The remember that we care about them and it is fun to realize that this has not been done by any other Anglo's.  They still remember Devin and Ashley when we go back to visit them.


Gerald and Geraldine Yellowhair.  Geraldine is
not a member of the church.

We received the beautiful plate above.  we do not know who gave it to us.  please let us know who to thank!!

Secody first tree

Deloris Secody and her daughter 

Grandma T , Deloris daughter and Deloris

Deloris is a new convert to the church.  They never had a tree for Christmas.  So we found this tree in Page at a second hand store and took it out to them  I am standing in front of the stove to take this picture.
Grandma T has been through the temple.  Her main daily activity is to take the sheep up in the hills to graze. Deloris is taking after her mother. 
Deloris also sells beaded jewelry that her mother makes for her. 
We put in a garden for the family for next year.  That will be a great help for the to cover some of the food costs.

Wheelchair Project

Bessie Sellers Wheel Chair

Bessie

Bessie in her Chair

This was one of our projects yesterday.  Bessie did not have enough money to get a wheelchair.  To get one through her insurance would mean that she would have a monthly payment.  She had a motorized chair but the battery would cost over $600.  She had an old chair that did not have any foot rests. As you can see her hands are so gnarled from her arthritis that she has a hard time with holding the chair and she could not put her feet up so they could push her.(note the terry cloth arm rests)  The new foot rests cost over $50.  We found this chair at a second hand store for $10 and covered the arm rests for her. 
The sellers were one of the first members in this area.  Her husband was the translator for the Missionaries that came into this area