What's up on da Rez

If you are looking for an evening out these are some of your choices on the REZ. There is often a baseball game on also. Sports are a big deal here like in most communities.

We haven't experienced the local entertainment but we did see a cakewalk in progress at a craft sale. They would pay some money and then everyone walked in a circle with the music on and when it stopped someone won a cake.

                                                             FLOWER OF THE WEEK
These delicate little flowers are often seen growing in the sand. My identification would be that they are a Sacred Datura.

Tanaya and Isabelle

The highlight of our week was our daughter Kyla, her husband Adam and our four grandchildren coming to see us. After church kids usually come to our trailer for cookies(as you can see in Tanayas hand) This Sunday Tanaya was dressed in her traditional costume which I thought was pretty neat.
The dress was hand woven on a loom from yarn spun from wool.  We will have more about the Navajo weaving on a later blog.
The kids from the branch and our grandchildren had a great time playing after church. We fixed our usual roast beef dinner. They were changing the Branch presidency so by the time the afternoon was over we had fed 15 people. No leftovers.

                                 Our hike down into Canyon de Chelly. A beautiful day for hiking

Our highlight for this week was going to our Zone Conference in Polacca. We took the shortcut so had a half hour of very rough road on the way but saw some new scenery. It was good to visit with the other senior couples. We have 37 couples serving in our mission. Nine are service missionaries for the gardening project so will go home in the fall. This mission has more senior couples than any mission in the church.
President and Sister Jones gave excellent talks and we came away feeling encouraged and ready to go back to work. They will be leaving in July so this was their last meeting with us. Pres. Jones is a general authority but has been on special assignment as mission president here for the last two years. This mission was started two years ago on recommendation from Pres. Jone  s. Previous  the Rez. was split up among several missions, now its a mission in itself.
After our meetings Elder Lybbert and I went down to the Snowflake temple since we couldn't go on the Temple excursion because of Victors funeral. We will confess we went  a few miles  out of the mission to Show Low where Elder Lybbert served fifty years ago. It was great. We even saw tall trees, water in the river, and cattle gracing on grass. We hope to go again before we come home.
Love to all,
Elder and Sister Lybbert