Don Bi'zaad

In the Navajo language the title Don Bi'zaad means "Don his words".

Since my wife Nona and I have spent the last 25 years in missionary labors among the Navajo
and other First Peoples of the SouthWest this blog will be notes of memories and events.

Monday, July 28, 2008

July 28, 1983

We finally arrived! Friday July 18, 1983 was a long day driving in from Oklahoma City, OK. We stopped in Albuquerque, NM for supper at the Royal Fork Buffet. Funny as it seems this was the first time we had ever ate at a buffet in our lives.

When we pulled into the Bible Methodist Navajo Mission at mile marker 9, Hwy 249, it was dusk, with the sky beautifully setting in the west.

This would be our home for the first year of mission work among our Navajo People. The things we learned this first year, definitely had an impact on the rest of our 24 years.

There was a lot of work to do yet on the mobile home we would be living in. This would be the 1st of 3 mobile homes we would live in, and we still do today.

We hit the ground running, preaching in the morning service on Sunday morning, less that 48 hours from arriving on the field. We never dreamed that our mission work would grow until there was a period of a couple years we spoke 11 times a week. Whew! Those were the days.

Well we arrived, so we will stop our day to day journey to get here, but will try to post random memories, and even current events.

May God be Praised for all His help, during these past 25 years. - dwp

1 comment:

Norma Gwen Watson said...

Congratulations on 25 years of service on the mission field. I know you have been through a lot with Nona's illnesses, etc. but you have stayed true and God has blessed you all!
We are moving on Sept. 1st from SC to Frankfort, IN. God just miraculously opened all the doors and we are going to a good church and school for Missie.
Tell Nona hello!