Journal of Mary Phyllis Fisher - Thomas Davies

it will be rested. The doctor said I must be very careful and never get tired. The trip to
Edmonton, having Anne and family here for New Years, then the wedding I guess was too
much. I hope I will feel better tomorrow.
I am reading the Pearl of Great Price. But just can’t remember what I have read even when I
take notes. I do hope that when I die my mind will be quickened and I can remember some of
the things I have read. My patriarchal blessing says I shall be called to preach the gospel to the
nations of the earth. I’ll be 73 on January 28, 1975 so I may have another 10 years to go, who
knows.
Must rest now. My feet are so numb. The blood is not being pumped to my hands and feet as it
should be, Dr Roy Spackman says, and that is what makes them numb.
Will lie down for awhile. Father is asleep on the cot. He came home from church, warmed over
things left from supper. He is so good to me and takes such good care of me. I really believe he
doesn’t want me to die. I said to him, “If I die you can get you a new wife. I wouldn’t want you
to life alone.” But he always says he doesn’t want another wife. I love him so much and hope
when I go to heaven he will soon come too for it would be terrible to be without him. It couldn’t
be in heaven if he were not there.
1975. January 28 th
Well I am 73 years old today. I hope I can do my visiting teaching today. I have been going
with Sister Stringham, but she has asked to be released. She doesn’t like to drive when the roads
are slippery and covered with snow in the wintertime. So I am going to go with Sister Claudia
Roberts. Her phone number is 653 3010. Today at 2 o’clock we will go teaching to Rowena R
Spackman ,Jutta Vander Hiede, Vickie Sommerfeldt, June Parks, Lorna Hatch, and Shirley
Paulson. I hope we find some of them at home. We haven’t been finding anyone home lately.
They must all work….Well we went teaching. Sister Roberts came and picked me up. We went
to every house but no one was at home. They all work. I hoped she’d want to go at night but
she doesn’t.
Connie came over and had dinner with me. Father was not going to the temple this afternoon.
We had a pleasant afternoon together listing to the radio. I worked on some dish towels I am
making out of some sacks. Father brought me ten one hundred pound sacks. I needed dish
towels so bad I was grateful for them.
I was born January 28 , 1902 at my Father and Mother home in Magrath. There were no
hospitals at that time I do not think. Their doctor was the Lord working through the Priesthood,
who went among the Saints healing them when they were sick, in Jesus name. The women who
were called midwives were all the doctors they had. They would wait on the mother and the
babies who were being born. They had no way of putting the mother to sleep
Today is my birthday. I was born January 28, 1902. It is now January 1975. No one
remembered.
It is hard for me to keep track of birthdays. Father went to the temple. I am home alone. I feel
frightened but I must not say that or Ren will have to stop going to the temple. I guess I should
go to bed before he comes home but I hate to be in bed all alone in the house. I can always hear
so many things, people walking around down in the basement, cars driving up.
The doctor said that Dora Davies Coleman, Ren’s sister, wouldn’t last long. It was a surprise.
She has been living at the Citizen’s home. There are so many old people there who are mentally
sick. I think that it would be very hard on her. I hope I never have to go there but I shouldn’t
say that. I’m sure it would be better than living all alone. Some of Dora’s children were coming
on the train tonight and Ren went to see how Dora was and if her family got there. I don’t know
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