Since Thursday

August 24, 2015

Kaibeto, AZ

 

Surprisingly a lot has happened since Thursday. First my spider bite is gone. I have had bite on the top of my foot for about 4 weeks it was about the size of a 50 cent piece but after some council from the Mission Doctor it has nearly disappeared.

Let me tell you a little bit about Kaibeto. It is a small Reservation town about 40 minutes southeast of Page Arizona. There are roughly 330 homes and 130 of them are abandoned/shut down for remodeling. There is a ward here, which is smaller than it should be. When the houses were shutdown many members and investigators were moved out and sent to other places. This week we had about 50 people at church. Most of the church leadership comes form Page and Lechèè. There are a lot of wonderful people here. The missionary work in this area has been dwindling because they Elders who were here when the housing got shutdown got pretty discouraged, I don't blame them. Our only commodity is the Gas Station/Post Office/Grocery Store. Well that is Kaibeto.

We have received a lot of referrals this week.  We have had a lot of people tell us that we should take them out with us when we go to contact the referral. We have done quite a bit of walking and people are noticing us. Yesterday we had someone stop driving and give us some water. Right after our first sip she told us that she would like us to come teach her, we were able to get her address and will be going over after she returns from her trip to Phoenix. Things are really starting to move forward and it is all thanks to the lord. This week we painted a hogan, octagon house, with the Elders in Inscription House which was a great service opprotunity. (The difference between a hogan and an octagon house is that a hogan is made out of mud and an octagon house is made like a normal house, with shingles and sheet-rock).

Okay now here is the quote of the week. This is from a 12 year old boy. 'Whenever my grandmother farts she says "chìdì gìnè"

Now for those of you non-Navajo speakers "chìdì gìnè" translates to "devil speaks".

Hope you all have a great week.

Elder Warnick

Surprisingly a lot has happened since Thursday. First my spider bite is gone. I have had bite on the top of my foot for about 4 weeks it was about the size of a 50 cent piece but after some council from the Mission Doctor it has nearly disappeared.

Let me tell you a little bit about Kaibeto. It is a small Reservation town about 40 minutes southeast of Page Arizona. There are roughly 330 homes and 130 of them are abandoned/shut down for remodeling. There is a ward here, which is smaller than it should be. When the houses were shutdown many members and investigators were moved out and sent to other places. This week we had about 50 people at church. Most of the church leadership comes form Page and Lechèè. There are a lot of wonderful people here. The missionary work in this area has been dwindling because they Elders who were here when the housing got shutdown got pretty discouraged, I don't blame them. Our only commodity is the Gas Station/Post Office/Grocery Store. Well that is Kaibeto.

We have received a lot of referrals this week.  We have had a lot of people tell us that we should take them out with us when we go to contact the referral. We have done quite a bit of walking and people are noticing us. Yesterday we had someone stop driving and give us some water. Right after our first sip she told us that she would like us to come teach her, we were able to get her address and will be going over after she returns from her trip to Phoenix. Things are really starting to move forward and it is all thanks to the lord. This week we painted a hogan, octagon house, with the Elders in Inscription House which was a great service opprotunity. (The difference between a hogan and an octagon house is that a hogan is made out of mud and an octagon house is made like a normal house, with shingles and sheet-rock).

Okay now here is the quote of the week. This is from a 12 year old boy. 'Whenever my grandmother farts she says "chìdì gìnè"

Now for those of you non-Navajo speakers "chìdì gìnè" translates to "devil speaks".

Hope you all have a great week.

Elder Warnick

Castro and Me eating Chinese

Cheap Taters

Elder Anderson in Kaibeto

ME in Kiabeto

Elders Warnick, Rainey, Butterfield, and Anderson