Journal of Mary Phyllis Fisher - Thomas Davies

1975. June 13 th
Well, it is morning. Father went to the temple. It is now 7 o’clock. I am going to go to the
temple to the 10 o’clock session. Father thinks it is too much for me to go through the sessions
but I want to go. It is the getting there and getting dressed that makes me tired, not sitting in the
session for when I’m home that is what I do, sit and read. Father got Sara to get some wool for
me to crotchet a cover for the couch. So I have been making it.
Well if I go to one session I must get ready now. Perhaps I’ll write a little more tonight. I go
one morning, do sealings, go through a session and come home at noon. I usually feel very
tired.
1975. June
Today I went to the temple and went into Brother Alma Wylie’s sealing room and acted as
proxy for the mothers who are having their work for the dead done. Then I went to one session
and came home. I think I should go oftener and do work for the dead. Maybe a session every
day would not hurt me. If I have heart trouble, I’ll die of it someday anyway and I think I
should do all I can before I go.
It is evening. I am home alone. Father has gone to the temple. I must go too. I feel lately that
all I live for is my self.
Perhaps I should go and have a check up from the doctor. He told me once to come every week
but when I went the last time he acted as if he didn’t even know me. He never tells me anything.
That is Doctor Spackman. When I went to my doctor, Doctor Van Orman he told me he knew
nothing about the heart. He knew that there was something wrong but didn’t know anything
about it and he told me to go to Dr. Spackman because he was a heart specialist. So I did. He
told m before that two of the main valves had leaked and gristle had grown over them, and that
now another was leaking. But it must be better or I would have heard.
Dr. Van Orman thought going to the temple might be too much of a strain on my heart, but it
isn’t. I love to go. It doesn’t worry me like it used to. If I make a mistake then it’s the workers
place to help me. I know the ceremonies all right so it doesn’t worry me to go through nor to sit
in the sessions. I love them and the spirit that is there.
1975. June 16 th
This morning Father and I went to Lethbridge. We had a lovely dinner with Sara, Ted and
family. Of course Rickie was not there but they said he seemed to be enjoying his mission.
After dinner we went with Sara and Ted to the last session of Education Week at the Lethbridge
Stake house. Sister Janene Morgan Payne B.A. and Wilfred Griggs from BYU were the
speakers. I enjoyed their talks very much and I am sure that BYU is a wonderful place to go to
get an education and to partake of the spirit of great LDS teachers. They told us faith promoting
experiences in their lives and talked of the subjects they teach. Bro. Griggs spoke on ancient
history and archeology. Sister Payne spoke on the Joy of Being a Woman. She is just beautiful
herself and spoke on beauty for keeps. She said beauty of the soul is shown by what we do for
others in our lives. I felt that I had done very little for others. She talked of Jesus and what he
did to help others do what was right and of his sacrifice for us. She also told the story of
Zacharias and how the angel told him that his wife should have a child and he would go before
and make ready for the coming of our Savior and of the messenger Gabriel’s visit to Mary and
said that the child should be called the Son of God. She spoke of Christ’s love for us and his
atoning sacrifice. She said we too must spend our lives doing good for other. It makes me feel
how selfish I am. I just sit at home and do nothing for others. I remember how mother visited
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