Journal of Mary Phyllis Fisher - Thomas Davies

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I think I must have a touch of flu because I have been so weak and dizzy and sick since we got home. Mary Sheppard came and stayed here while we were gone. They didn’t have any heat in the trailer. Only a little cook stove. So Mary came and stayed and she had the flu Emma said. I didn’t know this and she had slept in our bed. Anyway I do hope I will feel better soon. I know now that we should not have gone up to Edmonton even though I didn’t do much. I felt awfully tired when we got home and was sick the next day. I still feel weak and sick. Today I cleaned the fridge. The freezer part was so frozen I could hardly get the door to open and it needs defrosting badly. I played the organ for a little while and had a good sleep. Father worries about me and thinks I am lying down too much. He thinks it is that that makes me feel so weak. I only know that I don’t feel very good and want to sleep. Things are getting so pretty and green outside now. We had a little rain yesterday. The garden is growing. Everything is up but the potatoes. I have some tomato plants and will put them out on Monday. They are not very good ones, they are so small. Father wanted to see the boys so he went to Lethbridge when he came home from the temple. Sara sent me a beautiful bouquet of lilacs. They give off an aroma that smells so nice. I must read the Sunday school lesson for tomorrow. We are taking the Old Testament so I have been reading the Bible this year. 1974. June 8 th I didn’t go this morning to Sunday school because I felt so weak. I am waiting for Father to come and take me to church. I will rest awhile. Lore and Dan and their families came to see us. We were so happy to have them spend the afternoon here. Carol is going away to school at the BYU. Oh I do hope and pry she will be a good girl. Somehow I have failed in helping my grandchildren. They are such good children and I pray they will stay clean and pure. There is so much temptation in the world today. Dad and I just drove out to Veryle’s. He is not very well. His hand that he got caught in the machine is full of infection. It is good he has two boys to help him and Jerry takes over and Ken, Ren and Clay are big enough to help. We got a letter from Noel. She is such a beautiful writer and expresses her desire to do what is right. Oh how I wish we could help her. We pray for her and all our grandchildren and hope they will do what is right. I am going to do my teaching today. Sister Stringham comes and gets me and we visit Ramona Spackman, Jutta Vander Heide, Sommerfeldt, June Parks, Lorna Hatch, and Shirley Paulson. Most of them work so we do not get to see them in one day. Our topics for this year have been, ‘Committing Ourselves to Live a Life of Righteousness.’ ‘Committing Ourselves to Helping Others’ ‘To Live Righteously Through Prayer’ ‘To Live Righteously Through Searching the Scriptures’ ‘Seeking after Excellence in this Life by attending Sacrament meetings, through Service and Committing Ourselves to Not Judge our Fellowmen’ 1974. Wednesday July 17 th On Friday and Saturday we will be having our Ren Davies Reunion so I have been cooking cakes and buns today as I will be going to the temple tomorrow. The Reunion will be on Ellen and Veryle’s farm down by the creek as we have had before. It is lovely weather and there is a pond and trees and they have been fixing it up by pulling weeds and tall grass. They are also fixing a barbeque for Friday night. 74
Fay is expecting soon and Rae is not too strong since the baby was born so she doesn’t want to bring her little baby so far. I hope it will be a successful day. 1974. July Ren and I decided to go to Ottawa to see Lloyd and his family. We left home July 28 and went to Edmonton. We stayed at Tom and Rae’s and had a nice visit with them. The next day we left our car in Edmonton and got on a plane and flew to Ottawa in Eastern Canada, where Lloyd is working for the government. Jane took us to see the Government buildings and the office where Lloyd works. She also took us to see the Art Gallery, which was interesting. One day she took us to see the changing of the guards. The guards were dressed in their red uniforms with tall black hats. They paraded in front of the Parliament building with their guns on their shoulders. They lifted their feet high when they marched and stood so erect. As they moved their guns from shoulder to shoulder they fired into the air. There was a large crowd around the fence to see them. Then they marched with their guns at their side and on their shoulders. It made me dizzy so I went and sat in the car for a little while before the parade was over. One day Jane took us to the Art Gallery. It was surely a beautiful place with pictures all around the walls. There were old and new paintings and drawings of the Great World Painters. On Sunday they took us to Sunday school and meeting. They have a lovely new church. We stayed for a week and we had a lovely time. Lloyd and Jane came back with us and drove their new car. Father and I, Lloyd, Jane, Janene, Denise and Michael rode in their car. We passed acres of beans and corn as we drove along the road. Ottawa looks a lot like England with large brick and lumber houses, small lawns, trees and flowers, and large steeple churches. Most of the houses are painted white. Lloyd took us to see the Kirkland temple, on our way home. It is owned by the Reorganized Church. A Mrs. and Mr. Davis were in charge there. They took us through the temple. It has been well cared for. The woodwork, and the doors and window are carved so beautifully out of wood. They regard it as a sacred place. They do not hold church there. They are waiting for Christ to come to His temple. They have a church across the road. And they said they are ancestors of the Prophet Joseph Smith. Last night we stayed at some friends of Lloyd and Jane’s, Dan and Elsie Peterson. Jane phoned and asked them is we could stay with them that evening. They have a lovely new home. He takes old homes, repairs them and rents or sells them. They treated us so very nice. We are on our way home again. We are still passing fields of corn and beans. The corn stock is used for the cows in the winter Lloyd said. Behind the houses are cows feeding on the green grass in the pastures. I have never seen such tall trees before. I can easily see how people could get into the trees and bushes and never find their way out. All ready I am tired of seeing beans and corn. I’d like to see some green grass for a change. But I do love the trees. There are many kinds of trees I have never seen before. 1974. August Sometimes I feel so sorry I resigned from the temple but yesterday a lady I know well [I can’t remember her name] said she was working now in the temple and she seemed so happy. I said to my self, “It was right you resigned to give others an opportunity to work there.” I was an officiator at the temple for 8 years. I was the receptionist during the morning, ate dinner, did 12 names in ordinance work, then did 40 sealings, walked home and had a nap. I went back at night, did ordinance work and 3 times at the veils. This was my usual days work while working at the temple. 75
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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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Page 33 and 34: Sara phoned yesterday. Ricky was on
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Page 41 and 42: Lynn had living quarters in part of
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Page 49 and 50: Rae showed a locket with a picture
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Page 59 and 60: told him that morning, of a time wh
Page 61 and 62: This morning Gail Southerton was ma
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Page 69 and 70: took names for the dead. I will try
Page 71 and 72: 1974. April 27 th It is Saturday mo
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Page 79 and 80: 1974. December 3 rd Today I went to
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Page 95 and 96: Maybe the thing for me to do is to
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Page 113 and 114: 1977. August 24 th This morning Ren
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Page 117 and 118: 1978. March 7 th I have been lookin
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of boxes with pretty curtains aroun
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