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Click to see: NEWSLETTER #7 MAY 2017:
A Review of this post, plus questionaire & envelope message
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Click to see: NEWSLETTER #7 MAY 2017:
A Review of this post, plus questionaire & envelope message
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HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!
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HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!
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Click on highlighted links to see 2nd pages
-- Foundation Employs Again Teacher in CHULAC
-- Indian Queen Receives Scholarship from FID
-- FID Sponsors Folklore Festival--8th year
& 1997 Financial Report
Foundation Goals for 1999
SOON:
FIRST MOVIES MADE AT VALPARAISO
by Bob Allen & Lou Bertein
&
STUNNING HIGH DEFINITION PHOTO/ESSAY OF EXPLORATORY TRIPS & EARLY YEARS
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GUATEMALAN PROJECT UPDATING
by Cordell Andersen, Executive Director
THE GARBAGE DUMP COMMUNITY PROJECT --Aura's Master's Thesis
Below we see the homes of the community that are scattered over the hills surrounding the Coban City Garbage Dump.
Most of the homes are made of scrounged materials found in the garbage dump, like the retaining wall seen below made of old worn out tires. One exception is the red dish antennae seen on the left below--which is an inexpensive system, found all over rural Guatemala and Mexico, that only costs around $10/month. Quite a contrast to the communication we had for many years living on the Valparaiso Plantation when short-wave radio was our only secure contact with the world.
Most of the homes have dirt floors, and one seen above has an oven made of dirt and used to make bread stuffs to support a family.
Aura, along with a Peace Corp volunteer, is seen above visiting the families she is working with, and, below is seen directing the project in the classroom.
Earlier in the year, Aura's laptop died on her. One was donated and sent to her but was lost in the infamous mail system.
So, in February, when I was asked by Garth Norman, President of the Ancient America Foundation, to cooperate with them in their project and go on a trip to Izapa, and then to Valparaiso, as photographer, guide and speaker, Garth and his wife, Cheryl, acquired for Aura a laptop. I took it as part of my carry-on luggage, and presented her with this generous gift--which is now helping her complete her studies.
We are most grateful to Garth & Cheryl.
More from them at the end of this post -- which we need you to respond to.
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NEEDS AT THE
VALPARAISO/RIO FRIO SCHOOL
Federico, our Regional Director, is visiting the school and learning of their needs, and explaining that the teachers need to help him organize the two rural communities--Valparaiso & Rio Frio, to give as much as they can.....then we as a Foundation will complete the $1,000 needed to make necessary repairs to the school's kitchen we see below, along with needed pots and implements.
Please do as much as you can to help us with this project, and also to be able to accept several recent requests from two other schools to help them construct kitchens to make possible more efficient preparation of the daily nutrition supplement.
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PROPOSAL-- ANNOUNCEMENT
Above, Garth is giving a guided tour of the Izapa Visitor's Center, to community leaders, pointing out that the photographs of the important "Ancient City of Izapa," were taken by me in 1966 when he was beginning his 50+ years of researching the site, I was beginning our work with the Mayans in Guatemala.
Click to see YouTube video of IZAPA TRIP
Click to see YouTube video of IZAPA TRIP
Below, he spoke a few days later in a meeting at the Valparaiso Community, explaining its key importance in the history of ancient America and the hope of a Maya Cultural Center in the area.
Click to see YouTube video of The VALPARAISO TRIP
En Espanol
Click to see YouTube video of The VALPARAISO TRIP
En Espanol
Below is his message to all of us in the Guatemalan Foundation,
and needs our input:
INTRODUCTION BY CORDELL ANDERSEN, Executive Director of the Guatemalan Foundation:
In 1963, through an ex-missionary companion, Frank Lawton, I met Garth Norman, on my first return trip to Guatemala, 5 years after my LDS mission. That chance meeting led to the 1966 expedition to Izapa with Garth in my pickup, when I got for him, on 4"x 5" professional film, the collection of photographs he has since used in becoming the recognized expert in that area of ancient American archaeology.
For the next 48 years we each specialized in our chosen, but related, fields of interest. Then, in like 2014 a chance meeting in the parking lot of the Fresh Market in American Fork, Utah, brought us together again, and now 54 years after first meeting we are convinced we need to become partners again to basically do our best to finish what we started more than half a century ago. In four months the Guatemalan Foundation will end it's mission, but mine will continue as an individual helping my people in Guatemala as best I can, finishing my High Uintas Wilderness Project, and working as a volunteer with Garth and the Ancient America Foundation. I believe it's more than coincidence our coming together over the years. With that introduction, here's Garth's message:
Hello, Guatemalan Foundation supporters
ANNOUNCEMENT
Coalition: Guatemalan Foundation and Ancient America Foundation (AAF) for Maya culture history restoration & Book of Mormon Project announcement.
As President of the Ancient America Foundation, I (President Garth Norman) am pleased to announce AAF's coalition with the Guatemalan foundation for Maya culture and history restoration development. After fifty years we are moving into a new era. This shared program focuses on ancient Maya origins according to Ki'che Maya Popol Vuh, and related restoration according to the Book of Mormon.
This shared mission vision began in 1965 with Norman's appointment to the Izapa sculpture project with the BYU-New World Archaeological Foundation's Izapa, Mexico, Archaeology Project.
Cordell Andersen in 1966, then a freelance photographer, assisted Norman in obtaining quality photographs of Izapa sculptures for the Izapa album and text (Norman Izapa Sculpture 1973, 1976).
Project Goals: We are entering a new era of Maya history restoration related to the Book of Mormon. The long awaited day of Book of Mormon history documentation predicted by Joseph Smith in 1842 (Times & Seasons, Oct. 1) is at our doors.
The best available evidence now identifies Alta Verapaz, including Valparaiso, with the land of Manti at the headwaters of the river Sidon. Captain Moroni's seven fortifications in the first century BCE are being identified across northern highland and coastal Guatemala, as described in Alma 22:27, with archaeology investigations in progress for restoration. Norman's ongoing Izapa project has just completed an education visitor's center at Izapa (Judea) that will provide education displays for the new Valparaiso community center displays.
Our shared mission in this coalition project is to speed restoration of Book of Mormon history to the Lamanites in Mormon's homeland to help restore their covenants (in Central America and beyond) as promised in the Book of Mormon (see Title page; 2 Nephi 3:12, 30:5, 29:11-12). For more information go to vgarthnorman.com; izapacalendar.com; ancientamerica.org; tierraslibrodemormon.com; Izapa.com (Spanish); Email: vgarthnorman@gmail.com
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PLEASE HELP US WITH THE FOLLOWING
INVITATION: The GUATEMALAN FOUNDATION invites our donors and all of those interested receiving this repoort & newsletter, to
SHARE WITH US:
1. Your impressions & suggestions regarding this proposed coalition.
2. After August 2017, when the Guatemalan Foundation ends its work, would you be interested in being on the Ancient America Foundation's mailing list and maybe consider becoming a donor?
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PLEASE CONTINUE HELPING US WITH OUR HUMANITARIAN AID PROJECTS DURING OUR LAST 4 MONTHS
Using the enclosed return envelope--with the printed version,
send your written reply to the above questions & your donations to:
send your written reply to the above questions & your donations to:
GUATEMALAN FOUNDATION
P. O. Box 1296
American Fork, UTAH 84003
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