The first Good Friday [1944] that we were here Father Liebler thought he would combine native culture and teaching. So after the Good Friday ceremonies, I brought in a bucket of white sand and spread it on the floor in front of the alter. Father Liebler had prepared various colored sands then he started to make a sand painting similar to the famous sand paintings of the Navajos. Father made a picture of the crucifix. Of course he had to tell the story of the crucifix and to make the drawings as he went along, and then we sang some Good Friday songs. When it came time for him to tell about it getting dark, he made a sun and then took black sand and blacked it out. That is really an important part of the story, but we thought nothing of it at the time. After the sandpainting was finished, we left it on the floor in front of the alter until just before sundown, because Navajo sandpaintings are all destroyed before sunset. During the afternoon we discovered that the children had been sent out to pass the word around that the Eenishodi or the missionary was making a sandpainting and better come and see it. [The Navajos] came in from all over.

On Easter Day during the service, we had a terrific cloud burst. After the service, Father Liebler took Aunt Jenny back down to Bluff and while he was down there, Dan Cage — one of the white men in town said, "Say Father, that was powerful medicine you used the other day." Father said, "What do you mean, powerful medicine?" "Why," he said "that sand painting" he said. "Don’t you know it has been dry all spring and the Navajos have been having all sorts of ceremonies to make it rain, and none of them have been able to make it rain. But that sandpainting of yours when you blacked out the sun, you sure got us rain. And they all think you got powerful medicine."—Brother Juniper, Tape 143