Journal of Mary Phyllis Fisher - Thomas Davies

1978. March 7 th
I have been looking at the newspapers and that seems to be the last one as near as I can tell. I
have been reading the Church News. It says that in United States there are nearly 3 million girls
who smoke regularly.
1978. March 21 st .
Ren and I went up and saw Ada’s new home. It is very lovely. We enjoyed our visit and seeing
her home.
Ren and Lynn are going to see Mary. At first I asked him to take me too but now I feel it would
be good for him to go without me. He’s always so worried that I’ll do something wrong. It
would be good for him to go. Only he won’t leave me alone.
1978. April 12 th
This afternoon a car drove up to our house. My brother Frank Fisher and his wife Muriel came
into the house to see us. Muriel came up to see her folks and now they were on their way home.
Her father has been sick and now is dead and buried. I was so surprised to see them. I couldn’t
even remember Muriel’s name. It has been snowing the last 2 days and is still snowing so they
were in a hurry to get back across the line to their children. I didn’t even ask them about their
family. I don’t even know how many children they have. He asked me how my health was. I
told him I was well. Then I told him what my doctor said to me when I went to get a check up
this week. I go to have a check up every week. President Spackman is my doctor and he said I
was a mystery to him for I should have died years ago. I said to him, “President Spackman,
when my children and grandchildren kneel before going to bed, they all pray for their grandma.
I have 40 grandchildren and they will all be praying for me tonight. So it may be a long time yet
before I pass away.”
1978. April 29 th
I went with Ren to do sealings today. It made me feel that the parents and children were really
there. I wish I could remember how many children were sealed to their parents. I felt that they
were all there, parents and children. I didn’t feel that they were little children but grown up
children like I am. I stood proxy for the mother and some of the children. I wish I could always
have that sweet feeling in my home as we did there.
Ren took me down to dinner with him and I had such a lovely day. When we came home he
rested a little while and then went back to work.
It is now 8 o’clock at night. Hope Ren will be home soon for I know he was tired as I was when
he went back for it was him who did the talking and arranging or the set-ups of mother, father
and child. And I still feel tired. He is a wonderful temple worker. He knows everyone and
everyone seems to remember him. He helps them and tells them what and how to do things. He
has a nice way of telling them. He also remembers the ones he works for and who work for him.
He has such a wonderful memory. He helps to get all the people coming for the first time
whether it is for a wedding, sealing or just taking a name through for their endowments. He has
cultivated his memory. If any one in the temple wants to know about workers and those coming
in, he knows something about who they are. I’m sure having a big family of his own, plus 40
grandchildren and more great grandchildren and now we are getting great great grandchildren,
helps.
I can’t keep track of them but I never did have a very good memory.
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