Elder Wood has a special “in” with the folks here, being ¾
Navaho and ¼ Pima Indian. His home
is on the Salt River Pima Reservation near Scottsdale Arizona. Elder Wood celebrated his 25th
birthday August 19, 2013. For my
birthday Elder Wood gave me a beautiful glass bead Indian necklace he
made. With my birthday on the 17th
and our neighbor in the apartment Kirk Magnus’ birthday on the 18th,
we all got together for a fun birthday celebration in the backyard. Kirk and Rachel (his wife? You never
know) made Buffalo Wings and Pizza for us. We invited the Gowanda Elders too. After dinner we played “Minute to win it” games. We had a great time! Kirk and Rachel find it difficult to
understand what we missionaries are all about as reflected in Rachel’s comment
at the end of the party, “So this is what a G rated party is like!” Both have serious drug and alcohol
problems. We have tried to help
but they are not yet ready.
Nevertheless we have become good friends. Rachel is a great cook. We swap dishes and recipes often. Kirk
is a generous-hearted guy and raised a beautiful garden out back. He has shared all his produce with us
this year and it’s been great. The
water here is not drinkable and he has brought us jugs of water from an
artesian well since we first arrived.
Did I say they before they’ve become good friends? Kirk tells everyone how much he’s going
to miss us when we leave.
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