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Show Two Missionaries Return; Bring Hopi Indian Girl Slowly getting acquainted with this city and her new surroundings and hoping to make friends among .Springville young people-, is Mary Ann Lomaintwa, 13, Hopi Indian girl, who arrived here Sunday, to make her home temporarily with Mr. and Mrs. Walter nAderson. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson returned recently from the Southwest Indian In-dian Mission with headquarters at Gallup, N. Mex., and Mary Ann is one of their converts in whom they have taken a special 'interest and whom they hope to keep as long as she doesn't get homesick. The girl is the eldest of a family fam-ily of six children who live at Winslow, N. Mex. Just before the Andersons were released from their mission they were transfered to another vicinity so Mary Ann joined thorn here. She has been to school and hopes to continue her studies here. Much will depend on the friends she makes and the help she receives in trying to get acquainted with the new environment and methods. Her parents, in their early thirties, were reluctant to have Mary Ann leave home, but also felt that she would have more opportunity for an education here. The girl and her two brothers were baptized into the LDS church but the parents par-ents have not as yet become members. mem-bers. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson report an enjoyable mission with many interesting in-teresting experiences and many new friends made among the Indians In-dians of the area in which they labored. |