Journal of Mary Phyllis Fisher - Thomas Davies

e back to work Tuesday morning so they will leave for home tomorrow. Sara, Lore and Ellen
and their families will be down for New Year’s Day, weather permitting.
All in all we had a lovely wedding and Christmas and the Lord’s protecting care was over us.
Anne and family phoned just after we arrived home to wish us Christmas cheer. Ellen also
phoned Christmas Eve and said she was sorry she couldn’t be at the wedding.
Aunt Lynn gave me a card with $10 in it to give to you.
February 15, 1964
This week has been warmer and the snow has melted some during the day but it freezes at night,
making the road icy. Yesterday we had large sessions at the temple. 183 people were in the last
session. Father and I took the double part in the morning session.
In the afternoon Dan and Alma and children came to see us and we were so happy to see them.
We went to Curtis Crawford’s reception. He was married at the temple. It was a valentine
theme and was very lovely.
1964. February 17 th
Today Father and I attended Sunday school and Meetings and had a lovely quiet Sabbath Day.
I need to write my life all over again. Some of it is so dim it can hardly be read.
1965. December
Not long before Christmas Father and I went to Calgary and met Lloyd at the airport and
brought him home. You can’t imagine the joy it brings to a mother to have her son return home
after completing an honorable mission unless you have experienced it. They are so clean and
fine and have gained such a strong testimony of the gospel.
We had taken him down to Salt Lake, father and I and Judy Sheppard, who went with us, to go
to school at BYU, and now at last he was home again. But at the end of January he left for
Provo to attend university, his second year at the Y. Uncle Lawrence Leavitt gave him a job in
his Yankee Lunch drive-in. Brice was managing it so Lloyd lived with them and worked to pay
his way though school. He didn’t come home that summer but stayed and worked and took
some summer courses in order to make up his year’s credits. The next year he sold insurance
and worked on the university farm and with what money we could send him was able to
complete his third year. When he returned home in May he brought Jane Cripps with him for a
visit. They were married July 27, 1967.
The spring of 1966 after Lloyd left for the “Y” Father turned over his share of the land on which
Dan was living to him, and Father worked the quarter. But his back hurt so badly and since the
boys were not interested in farming the land, we decided to sell the farm and move to Leavitt. In
April 1966 Veryle had offered Father a job on his ranch. Veryle was teaching school and
needed some one to look after his cattle while he was away. We lived in their trailer until June
then Veryle took his family and went to Provo to get some of his credits he needed to teach in
Canada. We lived in their home while they were gone.
1966. May
Last night we came back to Bow Island and found out that the government could advance the
money to Kase Strike to buy our place. This was the last time we stayed there all night. May 26
Ren and I returned to our trailer home in Leavitt. We saw Sara as we came through Lethbridge.
They are fixing up their basement. It is going to be lovely.
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