Journal of Mary Phyllis Fisher - Thomas Davies

going to such a wicked place. But I know the Lord will protect him if we pray for him and if he
puts his trust in the Lord. Ren is going down with them. Sara has asked him to go to help him
drive back. She doesn’t want to stay and come back alone. But Dad doesn’t want me to stay
alone even though I want to so I guess I will go too. He phoned and asked Mary and Lawrence
Leavitt if we could stay with them.
1975. March 14 th Anne came to see me. Blair came to a meeting so Anne and I looked at our
album and had a nice morning together thinking of the times when she was a girl. My memory
grows dimmer every day but she could remember so many of the pictures and when they were
taken.
1975. March 23 rd
We had such a lovely trip. The weather was lovely and the trees covered with yellow and red.
It was beautiful traveling between the mountains. They were topped with snow with the sun
shining on them. Ren and Sara and Rickie took turns driving.
Rickie’s girl friend was with us. She is a very down-to-earth girl. She is planning and saving to
go on a mission next year, she says. I felt that they were just good friends. Sara was so worried
by her coming to Lethbridge. After the missionaries are set apart they are not supposed to go
out with girl friends and Sara was quite concerned. Helen just sent them word she was on her
way to visit with them and would like to go back with them when they took Rickie to the MTC.
Sara didn’t leave them alone for more than five minutes at a time and wouldn’t let them even put
their arms around each other. They were both good about it. When they took Helen to her home
she grabbed her suitcase and ran into her home and didn’t even look back.
Mary and Lawrence were so good to Ren and me. Sara wouldn’t stay at Mary’s. She went to
the hotel with Helen Catzmann, Rickie’s girlfriend. We stayed at a hotel going down. They
stayed at a friend of Sara’s while we were in Salt Lake. We got up early and came back in one
day.
1975. March 24 th
I am sick in bed. I don’t know if it is my heart or the flu. I have been taking my pills lately
every day. The flu is going around. I am not sick at the stomach though nor do I have a sore
throat. Just that same dizzy feeling and it is hard for me to breath and the same pounding of the
heart. I think it is just another heart sickness.
Emma and Jack came over to see us but we haven’t been back to see them.
It is Monday and Father is home from the temple. He has been waiting on me all day. He got
breakfast and went down town and bought apples and grapefruit, grapes and oranges and waited
on me. He is so good to me.
Have finished my story, ‘Her Father’s Daughter’. Enjoyed it very much just as I did when I was
young.
Last week I went to the temple for a couple of sessions. I had hoped to go again this week.
Washed on Monday and in the night I couldn’t sleep, felt so sick and dizzy.
I went to see the doctor some time ago and he told me that at one time two of my heart valves
had leaked and gristle had grown over them, and that the 3 rd valve was now leaking. I guess the
trip was too hard on me for I’m back in bed again. The doctor said I must have lots of rest and
when ever I got tired I must lie down. I’ll be all right tomorrow, I hope.
I did enjoy the trip down and staying with Lawrence and Mary. They are such wonderful
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