Just some notes from the Navajo Nation this afternoon.............This has been a BUSY week and we have loved it all........
Elder Hafen is right into things here.............(thanks to Elder Barlow from the MTC who gave him the bolo tie before we left for Arizona...............) Thank you Elder & Sister Barlow...........Love the tie.......
Sister Hafen sends her greetings as well...............the time at the office is getting easier - just busy. We often feel like we have gone back to work - except we love the rewards. Thursday we had President Brown (who owns the Navajo Inn & Denny's) call and needed 3 housekeepers......so we began going through files to find people for those positions.......he wanted us to screen them before sending them up to him. We found several. That afternoon there was a woman came in who just moved back to the Rez from Phoenix and was looking for work. She heard us talking and said "I'll take Anything!!" As one young man came back into the office from his interview for the housekeeping - he said "Wow......I wish I could have qualified for an accounting position - they have that open as well............." Well.........this woman just about came off her chair........she had experience - SO we hurried and got her application, cover letter, resume, etc all together...............and she went up. She came back SO excited - we are all hoping so that she gets it. Should know next week. Anyway- I told her to go home and pray about it!!
She looked at me and smiled and said........"I'll go home and get my cedar bag and my feathers..." So I said - "Great, I'll pray and you get your cedar bag and feathers"...........that combination should work!!!! Also had a young woman in who had just got her BA in Environmental Science and she was applying for a Navajo Nation Goverment Job...............those applications are HUGE....so we worked on her paperwork as well - she wanted to get it in by 5:00 that day!!! (Seems like everyone comes in about 1/2 hour before they need things done and away we go!!! Thursday is the day we get all the newspaper listings and the job listings from the Navajo Nation and Indian Health Services and prepare them to send to all of the surrounding areas - it is a big job! Another beautiful young girl from the ward who is going to school but getting summer work needed the same thing done and wanted me to proof read all of that...........In the mean time we had a woman come in from Lukachukai branch who was getting Bells Palsy on her face and she wanted Elder Hafen to give her a blessing and needed to talk.......so we did that! Another woman came in to have me help her get on the computer to find information on (get this) "Global Warming".............her husband was doing a report for English 101............needless to say - there is never a dull moment in the office.............We had 21 people again on Thursday.
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