A Bahá’í, absent for a time, returned to the city as a follower of Mason Remey.

On November 27, 1960, Betty wrote the National Spiritual Assembly that a grave trial had come to afflict the Punta Arenas community. Mason Remey, a Hand of the Cause of God, had broken with the Bahá’í world following the death of the Guardian, Shoghi Effendi, saying that he was the new Guardian of the Faith. A Punta Arenas Bahá’í, absent for a time, returned to the city as a follower of Mason Remey. In September, 1961, Artemus Lamb, one of the original founders of the Local Spiritual Assembly in 1945, wrote Betty that a covenant breaker could be coming to Punta Arenas and to take special precautions against association with him. By August of 1962, the covenant breaker’s wife and an inactive Bahá’í joined him as covenant breakers and caused untold anguish in the community. One woman expelled from the Faith by association with the known covenant breaker began demanding that she be reinstated. If not, she threatened to publish purportedly damaging facts about the other Bahá’ís in the community. She also threatened legal action and to have a Bahá’í radio program cancelled.

Hand of the Cause Mr. Faizí came to Punta Arenas in October, 1962, initially for just a few days, to deal with the problem. He ended up staying forty-five days, not just to work with the problem of the covenant breakers, but also to deepen the local believers. He had hoped to bring the errant souls back to the Faith of Bahá’u’lláh, but was completely unable to do so. Just after Mr. Faizí departed, Auxiliary Board member Khamseh arrived.

(Betty Becker - Valiant Servant Pioneer By Earl Redman)