Journal of Mary Phyllis Fisher - Thomas Davies

just how long he will be. He didn’t say but I think he said he wouldn’t be very long. He went to
the hospital this morning. I went with him but Dora didn’t seem to know anyone. She didn’t
speak to us anyway. She seemed to be in a stuper. I think she had been put to sleep. The doctor
had them send for her family. Some of them will be here tonight. She was a lovely woman.
I can’t seem to keep a Book of Remembrance. It always falls apart. I can never find a good pen
to write with. Maybe a pencil is best.
1975. February 6 th
It is now the 6 th of February. Time goes fast when it comes to writing in my memory book. I
forget what happened from one day to another. This week Connie and Ellen came to see me.
Connie came and had dinner one day. Her mother doesn’t think she should come over as often
as she has been doing. She wants her to take her lunch and stay at the school. She worries
about her when she leaves the school at noon and comes here alone, and I guess it is best to stay
at the school. There is so much evil in the world today it isn’t safe for a girl to go walking
around alone even in the day time. I will miss her so.
Father has just come home from the temple. He usually comes home after the afternoon session
gets off and has a little nap. I’m glad to have him here even if most of the time he spends
sleeping. It has been blowing and the snow has been drifting today. We already have a good
sized drift on the west. I see the paper boy is coming up the walk and father is just leaving for
the temple. He was late coming today so Father will have to read it when he gets home tonight.
I’m reading the book, ‘A Marvelous Work and a Wonder’. I read but cannot remember what I
read. What good will it do me when I go on that mission my blessing talks about. I play the
organ a little everyday at least I try to.
The men are the only ones who go to the temple now. The women are so far ahead of the men
that they have asked the women to stay home. It has been over a month since the women have
been able to take endowment names.
1975. February 13 th
Last night we went to Lethbridge. Lloyd had phoned from Ottawa and said he was being sent to
this district by the government so we went to Lethbridge to meet him. He said he would be
there on the 9 o’clock plane. But he didn’t arrive until 10:15 so we sat in the station for a couple
of hours. We were very happy when he arrived. When we came home it was snowing a little
but it was nice and warm in the car. We arrived home just in time for supper. Lloyd helped me
with the dishes.
Today he went back to Lethbridge to do the work he was sent to do.
Ellen, Connie, and Sherrie and Anne and Blair came over. Ren phoned to all the family and told
them to come in today or tomorrow. Lloyd is going back on Saturday. It was so good to see
him. I miss him more than any of my children. When we moved from Hill Spring to Bow
Island Lloyd and Frank were just little boys and they were all we had, the others had all married.
In a few years Dan came home from his mission. He married and came to Bow Island. We had
moved to Bow Island in 55. In 1966 both Lloyd and Frank decided they didn’t want to stay on
the farm. They wanted to go where they could carry on in their different fields. So Ren and I
moved back to Cardston where we could go to the temple and help Veryle and Ellen. We
bought a place in Cardston and went to the temple that winter. In the spring we were asked to be
officiators, a position Ren still holds. Last year I resigned because of my heart condition.
This evening Anne and Blair came over. Lloyd, Ren and I had a nice visit with them.
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