Journal of Mary Phyllis Fisher - Thomas Davies

gave me such a lovely blessing. He said that because of the faith I had in this principal revealed
from Heaven that I would receive a special blessing. When Sara was born the Doctor said that it
was a miracle she had lived. A few minutes longer and she would have smothered, and I knew
the Lord had blessed me.
1933. June 25 th
It is Sunday and I am not very well, so did not go to Sunday school with the others. Tom and
Ann and Sara and Danny and Lore are asleep. [Lore wanted to be called Junior. He says, “Call
me Ginger Momma,” but I keep forgetting. ]
Little Danny wants me to hold him all the time. It’s hard on him to have another baby in the
home. He is so big to carry around because of the pain I still have in my side. Sara is surely
growing. She has the sweetest smile.
Lore went to Sunday school. Tom and Ann brought him home, and then they went back to
meeting on Queen, a little horse that Dad got for them. They would ride it all the time if they
could. They are just like little men and women. I can hardly believe they are big enough to go
by themselves.
1933. September
We have been living on the farm Ren got from Jo Dudley. Tomorrow is quite a memorable day
in my life. My own little daughter Anne, my comfort I call her, starts to school. Undeen
Caldwell is to be her teacher. She prayed tonight that she would get there on time. Tomorrow
she starts on life’s pathway. She is no longer my baby girl, my little helper. She will make new
friends and will have new cares and responsibilities. May God bless and keep her as sweet and
precious and lovely and good as she is today.
1933. November
Anne is coming along nicely in school, Mrs. Caldwell says.
Ren sold our horse, Kisser, and got flour. He traded some logs to the miners for coal. We had a
very bad storm. The lake was frozen over. We didn’t have any coal or wood. We were very
concerned about it. In answer to our prayer, Ren was able to haul a few loads of beets for
Golden Allred and got enough coal to last us until Ren was able to sell two loads of logs from
the mountains.
The weather is warm now. Sara has a bad cold and infatigo. I am teaching the Theology lesson
in Relief Society this year. I hope I can keep it up. The lessons are so good.
Ren bought Danny a little wagon and he’d play he was a horse pulling the wagon.
1934. April 25 th
It has been nearly a year since I wrote in my journal. Such a lot has happened since then. Last
spring we moved into the two north rooms of Olson’s house in Hill Spring. The girls, Edna and
Billy, lived in the other part and went to school. They are such nice girls. I learned to think so
much of them.
Ren worked on the irrigation ditches on the road at Waterton Park, and put up hay so we
managed to get along. That year we had the best garden we have ever had.
About the 2nd week in October, Tom and Anne went to Cardston to stay with their grandmother
Davies and go to school. Ren had rented a house near his folks but the children would stay at
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