The Kinlichee family is preparing for a wedding and baptism. They had us come up and bless their home yesterday. The parents are really working to make their situation better. Bro. Kinlichee had a job interview Wed. which we hope has positive results as well. They are planning to get married on Feb. 14. Wed. Sis. Davis and I spent about 3 hours filling commodity boxes for the Sr. Citizens, while our husbands ran the Addiction recovery program at the church. We went there planning to do a craft activity, but the room was filled with cases of canned good of all sorts. We had to break down the boxes, and repackage them, with the same items in each smaller box. It was wild for awhile. It think we probably packaged 40-50 smaller boxes with about 20 different items in each. Boy, were we tired when we finished. My favorite item was the Vita-soy chocolate mint milk substitute!
My other project has been getting publicity designed for a fireside our branch is hosting Feb. 23. Four men from Blanding starting producing religious broadcasts in Navajo about 10 years ago. In the process they helped to start a Navajo choir, which provides the music. It has really been a grassroots dream they've brought to fruitition. Two of them, Steve Lovell and Ike Chamberlain were SW Indian missionaries 50 years ago, one is the singer, Stan Bronson, and Clayton Long is the Native speaker. They've done all the recordings in Blanding, having to have the time down to the second. They send out the CDs to 4 or 5 AM radio stations that reach the reservation. They have recorded over 50 different program, and it has been a real labor of love. We knew something about their efforts while in Blanding, but didn't realize the financial sacrifice and time commitment it has been for them; neither did we realize how much the Navajo people love the program. it reaches homes that are often inaccessible to us as missionaries and brings a strong gospel message to them. They have had 17,000 requests for literature since the first broadcast in 2000, but are hoping for 50,000. We've invited Steve Lovell and his wife to come down and do a fireside, to tell the people about this labor of love. We really want it to be successful, and hopefully, it will reach additional people, and bring them to the church.
