Code Talkers

                                                                CODE TALKERS

                                                         FLOWER OF THE WEEK
So many beautiful little flowers growing in the sand and rock.  This is a Scarlet Gilia.

This is a peak at our wildlife outside our trailer. A Say's Phoebe nesting on top of the light at the church. The spotted ground squirrel taking advantage of the bird seed. The usual birds, doves, house sparrows, house finch coming for their daily handout and enjoying the bird bath. We have identified three different lizards, the horned lizard, sagebrush and this guy the Whiptail lizard. We still haven't seen any little ones but we expect to see some soon.

We found the history of the code talkers very interesting. It is the Navajos name to fame and they are mentioned often. The last of the original 29 code talkers passed away last spring.

This is what is called window rock.  The town of Wind Rock is the head of the Navajo Nation where the headquarters for the reservation is located.  About 3000 people live here but the neighbouring towns of  Fort Defiance and St. Michaels add to the population.

These are a few of the office buildings both old and new at Window Rock.

Whats missing in this picture?? No, its not the green grass, no, its not flowers, no, its not the screen door the wind blew off. The clue is that we are home. You guessed it. Our trusty van is gone. These rough, sandy roads were too much for it and it started complaining in the transmission. We contemplated whether to fix it or look for another vehicle but after a little shopping on the computer at the prices here and all the inconvenience decided to fix her up. We hope to have her back and running hopefully sooner than later.  We had a flat tire Monday(fortunately after returning home from a gardening meeting in Tuba) and took her to Gary to fix and were back on Wednesday with transmission problems.
With car trouble and very hot weather we haven't been able to do as much contacting as we would like. We did have a lesson with Garys' family who came here since we couldn't go to them. Their 7 year old boy has been insisting on saying prayers and they wanted him to learn how.  We had a good lesson on how to pray and the restoration . Their son said the closing prayer and did a great job. Our testimony of the truthfulness  of the scriptures continues to grow as we teach and study

Love to all,
Elder and Sister Lybbert