Journal of Mary Phyllis Fisher - Thomas Davies

They wouldn’t take any thing for her ride home so she gave the one hundred dollars to Dan. She
went to Lethbridge and worked for a Lumber Co. and sent us money to help Dan on his mission.
1952. On February 26, ……..played with the Hill Spring boys in Salt Lake in the All Church
Men’s Tournament.
1953. Dan left Hill Spring on April 21, 1953, with Joe Dudley who was going to Salt Lake.
He entered the mission school April 22, where he spent a week before leaving for his mission in
Southern California. Dan spent most of his time in the Imperial Valley. He found the Spanish
language hard to learn but the Lord blessed him and he filled an honorable mission.
In June Tom received a call to go on a mission to Samoa. He was to be in the mission Home in
Salt Lake City on the 2 nd of September. About the middle of July he caught his hand in the
power takeoff on the tractor. It was a terrible experience. His fingers were badly cut and the
pointer finger was broken in 2 places and the chord was cut. They fixed it up at the hospital the
best they could. Doctor Benny washed it and put it into a cast. But when they took it out of the
cast in two weeks, it was full of infection. It had got into the bone and they were afraid his
finger would have to be taken off. But we soaked and poltised it and fasted and prayed all
during the month of August. Tom did so want it to get well so he could go on his mission when
the boat sailed. It began to heal slowly but when he went to Salt Lake September 2 with Uncle
Dave and Aunt Ethel who had come up for a visit, his hand was still in a cast. The doctor in Salt
Lake at the mission home examined it and said the officials would never let him go as long as it
had infection in it. For some reason the boat departure was postponed for two weeks and by that
time Tom’s hand was healed. Tom said in his letter, “The boat was postponed just for me but
they didn’t know it.
Veryle has received his degree in Agriculture. He is taking Anne and Blair to Provo where Blair
is going to school.
1953. It has been a very wet spring. It is now the 10th of June and only a little grain has been
planted, about 7 %. The land has been too wet to go on. President Brewerton has called a Stake
fast and prayer day tomorrow for weather conditions, that we might reap and harvest our crops.
We have rented the west part of Jo Dudley’s farm for the past two years. But the first year the
crops were snowed under and last year was also a poor year. We were hoping to do better this
year. We are depending on our cows entirely for a living and are anxious to get land of our own.
Dan is on a mission in the Southern California mission. He is in Calexico, a city of 15,000
people right on the Mexican boarder. Just over the boarder is Mexicali. Part of the time he
spends in Mexicali and the other half in Colexico. He left Tuesday morning April 21, and
arrived in Salt Lake at noon in time to enter the mission school where he spent a week before
going to his mission.
It was just a week before Dan left when Anne returned home from her mission. She arrived
home April 16 from the Northern California Mission. We had not expected her to be released
until the 18th but Hollands from Cardston were in San Fransisco where they had gone to see
their son married, and called at the mission home to see if Anne could go home with them.
President Gardner had just returned from General Conference with the intention of asking Anne
to stay longer. But he told her she must go. She had offered to stay longer before he left for
conference but he said “No” she had done her share.
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