Journal of Mary Phyllis Fisher - Thomas Davies

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1978. November 7 th I have heart trouble. Three heart valves are leaking and I have to go for a check up every week and the doctor told Ren that I am not able to work in the temple or go to the temple so he goes and I stay home most of the time. 1978. November 28 th It is evening. Ren and I read the Book of Mormon together for awhile. We started to read Alma chapter 45 through 47. I enjoy so much reading together. Ren is now reading another book. He doesn’t like to read his story books to me so I’ll have to get me one of my own. Ren’s stories are cowboy stories 1978. November 30 th Last night Tom came and stayed with us. He brought a friend who brought him down from Edmonton and they stayed all night. They had breakfast then both went to the temple so I am home alone. I will read a while. 1978. December 10 th Jerry and his wife Gloria came to see us and stayed for supper. We enjoyed their visit. They make you feel so good. They are so grateful for each other and for friends and relatives. Dear Little MIA Maid with your tears and fears. You have many years before maturity. May you be happy and as sweet as you are today. This I humbly pray. This evening Sara came over and stayed with Ren and me. We had such a nice visit with her. It was Ted’s sister’s birthday so he went to see her and Sara came to see Ren and me. She had her daughter Wendy’s baby with her while she and her husband went to visit Ted’s sister. They came over after and talked awhile and then they went home. Ren said when he left for the temple he would be home at about 8 but he is not home. It is too dark for me to see. This morning I went to the temple. I went through a session and took a name. Then I went to dinner with Ren. We had a lovely dinner with fresh warm rolls, potatoes, gravy and green beans and pie. It was all very good but it cost $3.00 for me. Dad gets his free as he works there. Ren took me down to the doctor’s for a check up. I told him I was fine but he said the doctor says I must have a check up because my blood gets too thick and is not getting to my heart as it should. What is it that makes blood? Is it food? He says I am to eat no meat, no sugar or rich food. Surely I don’t need to eat meat or sugar if that is what is affecting my heart. 1978. December 3 rd My visiting teachers, Rose Williams and Margaret Woolford came visiting and wished me a happy Christmas. 1978. December 12 th Ellen and Jerry, who has just returned from his mission, came by. They had the baby with them, Kerry Lance I think they called him. They have just left. 122
1979. January Relief Society is at 9:30 on Thursday morning. Sunday school starts at 11:30 Sacrament meeting starts at 4:30 Margaret Smith, now Margaret Woolford came over in her car and took me to Relief Society. Oh I appreciated her coming to get me. I wish I could do something to repay her but now I don’t know what day Relief Society is on. We had a good lesson and I enjoyed it very much. We had a lunch after. Then Margaret brought me home. We no longer go to the 3 rd ward. It’s 5 th ward now. Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday I go with Ren to the temple. I go through 2 sessions and go down to dinner as soon as I get out of the 2 nd session. I am so grateful for the many opportunities I have had to serve in the church and for the 8 years I worked in the temple. I must go to bed now and not disturb Ren. He doesn’t have much time to sit down and read and that has always been the joy of his life. [THE FOLLOWING ARE FROM MOTHER’S JOURNAL WHEN SHE BEGAN REMINISCING ABOUT HER CHILDHOOD. BECAUSE THE JOURNAL WAS DROPPED AND THE PAGES MIXED THE ITEMS MAY NOT BE IN SEQUENCE]. I remember going to a birthday party at Cleo Jensen’s home when I was about 6 and what a beautiful house they had with carpets on the floor. I remember going to Stake conference with Father and Mother at Raymond. We went to Brother Allen’s home I think it was, for dinner. He and Father worked together in the Religion class, a class for the children once a week in school. I had such a good time. The girls asked me to stay all night. Their Father was going to Magrath the next day and I could go home with him. Mother and Father said I could stay if I wanted to and I said I did, but when Mother and the other children Orrin and Glen, were ready to go I started to cry because I wanted to go home too. Then there was the time we had a contest in school to see who could tell the best story. Mother taught me the story of Queen Victoria and I won the prize. And then the Christmas program put on by the school. This was an important day of my life for all the girls in grade one wore long skirts and a shawl around their shoulders and we sang “Once I was a lassie, a lassie etc. I loved my Sunday school teacher, Brother Fletcher. He taught us a song about Jenny taking a walk. He would ask who would like to be Jenny this morning. I think I always held up my hand to be Jenny because I liked to act it out so well. When I was 8 years old beginning my second year in school we moved to Hill Spring. There was not school that year for me but the next year we held school in the Garinger Hotel. Orrilla Woolf Tanner was my teacher. I seemed to have forgotten all I was taught in school for it seemed so hard for me. Orrilla Tanner was strict and I felt I hated school and my teacher. But some years later Sister Tanner taught my first Mutual class and I learned to love her very much. I used to go to her house and visit her. Once she gave me a song from a magazine she had. Mother was going to have a baby soon so grandpa came up to see us and he taught me the song with the piano by ear. That week the baby was born and I sang the song in MIA “Little Baby Girly. I still remember it. I remember when Father bought home our first piano. It was second hand and he traded a cow or horse for it. I took a few lessons from Leo Comb but never really learned to play although at one time I could play the hymns pretty well. 123
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TO MY CHILDREN Journal of Mary Phyl
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us, and Tom and Lore, went down to
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When Tom was just a little fellow h
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gave me such a lovely blessing. He
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came out for the first time. I came
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milking cows. He also got a small t
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They wouldn’t take any thing for
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companion to come to Los Angeles an
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and seemed so homesick and discoura
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had been renting, so Ren and Lynn p
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Merrill, reading by Veryle’s 14 y
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Boy born at Utah Valley Hospital, J
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take. Dan and Ted went also. Anne d
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warm and quiet and clean. We got tw
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Christmas with Leatha and Aunt Dora
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1960. February 19 th Tonight Ren, F
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Sara phoned yesterday. Ricky was on
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Father bought a new car and we took
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e back to work Tuesday morning so t
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They had gone to Las Vegas a number
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Lynn had living quarters in part of
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this year. So our family is growing
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grandparents, were there in the roo
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Janene and Denise. Lloyd had finish
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Rae showed a locket with a picture
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Veryle read it so nicely. The parce
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along with some cookies, for lunch.
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Stringham brings her car and picks
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Myrtle has lived in the hospital. S
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told him that morning, of a time wh
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This morning Gail Southerton was ma
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things in the one bedroom and garag
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In the year 1830, a member of the c
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will learn obedience and grow to be
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took names for the dead. I will try
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