Journal of Mary Phyllis Fisher - Thomas Davies

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.
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