Tuesday, October 3, 2017

NOVEMBER 1984

NOV, 6
Terreton, Id
6.2% fetal blood

About 1 week ago Charles & I and Brenda's baby all went to the hospital and had a blood test.  Dr. Davis who was taking care of Tyler had us go get the test.  They were checking for fetal cells.  He said the fetal cells would make our blood tests come out inaccurate sugar tests.  When a fetus is born the blood changes.  Ours did not change completely.  Charles is a true diabetic and can go into a coma, but Tyler and I cannot go into diabetic coma.  Tyler has 8.1% fetal cells.  I have 6.2% fetal cells.  It is like we were allergic to sugar.  The body does not handle it.  We cannot eat sugar and be healthy.  This is hereditary.  There is nothing we can do, only not eat sugar at all.  If Tyler married a girl with the same trouble they would not be able to have any children.  They would die at birth

Friday, September 29, 2017

OCTOBER 1984

Oct. 3, 1984
Weber Creek

Time goes by so quickly.  The summers ahs come and gone.  They dike broke several times but it was always in the day or when people were close and the community worked together so that there was not as much damage as it would have been otherwise.  A lot of our acres were covered with water.  Heavenly Father blessed the community.  We are so thankful. 
Ronda called several times to tell us that her husband was still being cruel to his family.  We are very much against interfering with family problems.  Ronda said he was physically and mentally abusive. 
On July 3rd Wallace became very ill.  He could not breath well and his chest was in terrific pain in it.  Gloreen and I took him to the hospital.  Gloreen is Darwin & Charlene's oldest daughter.  She is staying with us.  When we got Wallace to the hospital his heart doctor said that he had pneumonia.  He had to stay in the hospital for several days.  He did well but could not go to Canada with Larry, Patricia, & I.  We left on the morning of the 4th of July.  We took the old red pickup and our trailer, two wheeler.  We had the wheels on the trailer fixed and packed with grease.  He did not put it back together right so we almost lost a wheel.  Our Heavenly Father was watching over us.  This is a testimony to me because we were going around curves and there was nothing holding that wheel on except the power of the Lord.  Larry heard it making a funny noise.  We pulled off there was a little mountain town.  We went into the cafe and asked them about a place to get parts.  Nothing was open because it was the 4th of July.  We discussed it and decided we would have to leave the trailer there and drive to Helena, stay over night and return the next morning with parts for the trailer.  We had to be in Cardston on the 5th and it looked like we were not going to make it.  We were unhooking the trailer when a young man came up and asked us what our trouble was about.  We showed him the wheel.  He said he thought he had a part that would work.  Larry went with him and in a very short time they came back with the part.  It did not fit exactly but we got to a place that had parts just 20 minutes before it closed.  We bought a part and on the way back we dropped it off to the nice young man.  We made our appointment with Ronda on time with the help of the Lord.  We got back to Terreton safe and sound.  Ronda, Jeremy, Gordon and Mark were with us and as many things as we could bring.  She left a lot of things that meant a lot to her.  Romney was not home and he has not contacted her as far as we know, only to sign over all property in exchange for custody of the children and divorce papers were sent by his lawyer. 
We came camping for a week or so.  We had a reunion at Downatta.  A very popular swimming resort.  All our family were together except Glade & Penny & family.  It was so much fun.  We have decided to have it there again next summer.  Everyone has so much fun. Ronda was kept very busy.  Ronda had an appointment with her doctor at Medicine Hat in Canada.  She is still having trouble with her wrist that she broke at Christmastime.  We were on our way to Medicine Hat when on our stop over night Gordon got a high fever.  We talked to the people at the camping place and they said there was a hospital about 15 miles back.  We went there with Gordon and they put him in the hospital until his temperature was down, which was the next morning.  We then went to Lethbridge to get her storage which she had left with her friends.  When we left Lethbridge Canada we headed for Rapid City South Dakota.  Glade and Penny live in Rapid City.  They have a new baby.  She is about six weeks old.  Her name is Kristi Sue.  She was named after Penny's mother.  When we got there the baby was in the hospital.  She had a high temperature.  It was difficult with the baby in the hospital but we enjoyed our stay very much.  We went to Mount Rushmore.  They have a program to tell about the sculptures and the man who did it.  Wallace had a rough time because we had to walk up so many stairs and it was a long walk.  The baby is fine and Glade and Penny said she is growing and doing well.  She is a beautiful baby.  It was a long trip but very enjoyable.  The Fullmers had a reunion at Alden and Julia's.  All of my brothers & sister and mates were there.  That was very special.  Freda & Harold, Billy & Fern, were here from Washington also Cynthia and son John.  We are going to meet again in Rexburg the last week of July.  Ronda wanted to get into nursing school.  She tried at Ricks first but I guess there is a two year waiting list.  She called all over Idaho and no place, every place was filled up.  After our reunion at Downatta she went to Utah with Larry & Patricia.  She tried all the schools down there but all were filled up.  Someone suggested that she call Price Utah.  We felt that she did not have a chance to get in because she did not have any money but with her determination and the help of the Lord she is now going to nursing school, and she is getting help from the government to go to school.  She got an apartment about one block from where she goes to school.  They have a day nursery at the university where she goes to school.  The kids are all in school.  Mark is in kindergarten and loves it very much.  We feel that Heavenly Father has helped her every step of the way.
LaVar got a permit for an elk.  Wallace and LaVar are up on the hill.  I am alone.  It is so nice, so peaceful.  I am going to do some oil painting so I am excited about being alone. 
I have a strong testimony of the gospel.  I know if we do what we know is right that the Lord will bless us.  It does not mean that we will not have trouble and heartaches but that He will help us over the rough places.  I am so grateful for His help and the knowledge that he loves us and will bless us when we need Him.

Thursday, September 28, 2017

MARCH 1984/ APRIL 1984/ MAY 1984

March 8,
Terreton Idaho

Wallace is in Pocatello helping Darwin with his house.  I was not feeling well so I stayed home.  There is still lots of snow here.  People are concerned about the lake.  It is almost at flood stage and we have had no run off at all.  Brenda and I talked to Ronda yesterday.  She was working at the hospital for the first day since her accident.  She said they were doing fine as a family.  We pray that everything will work out fine.  We pray that they will stay close to the church and that the children will grow up to be good and wonderful people and good citizens.  We have not heard from Larry and Patricia.  We pray that Larry is better.  We pray that the doctors will know how to help him.

April 6
Terreton Id

Glade came home the first part of the week.  It was so wonderful to see him.  He looks good and said that he was doing very well in the Air Force.  We had such a good visit.  Thursday he went to Logan and brought Penny and Michael and we met in Pocatello and all went out to dinner.  It was so special!  There was Wallace & I, Charles & Evelyn, Blair & Philline & baby Rebecca, LaVar & Brenda & baby Tyler.  Darwin had to work so he was not there.  Charlene was with us.  Glade & Penny & Michael their baby too.  We had such a good time.  It was great!  Penny looked so good.  She said she has been doing well.  Their baby is due in June!

May 20, 1984

Brenda & I have been getting up at 4am to oil paint.  I finished a picture of swans flying over grass and water with he Tetons in the background.  I have just about finished a group of three of flowers.  It has been so much fun.  Today was Vonell Summers, LaVar & Brenda's daughter, Baccalaureate.  It was very nice.  Jack Gerard talked.  He graduated from West Jefferson High School a few years ago.  Graduation is Wednesday the 23rd.  Patricia called.  She said Larry was feeling much better and they are going to spend the weekend with us.  There has been a lot of flooding in Hamer & Camas.  Mud Lake is at flood stage.  They have been working on the dike and we pray that it will not break.  This is a hard place to make a living.  It has taken so very long for the area to develop.  It would be very bad for this area if the dike should break.  There have been lots of prayers for this area.  Evelyn's father died May 15.  He had been sick for so long.  They are a very close family and because he has needed so much care he will be missed so much by the family especially his wife.  She is such a lovely lady.  Her name is Alberta Smuin.  Evelyn's father was Thomas Franklin Smuin.  For Mother's Day and my birthday Blair & Philline took us out to dinner.  We met them in Idaho Falls and then we spent some time the next day.  They came out on Sunday and spent a very nice afternoon.  It was so nice of them.  They gave me a bouquet of red roses and purple flowers.  They were so beautiful.  I needed some oil paints and they brought me two tubes.  Nice!  Patricia called and Ronda called.  I will be so glad when we get a telephone so we will be able to get our messages first hand.

FEBRUARY 1984

February 3, 1984
Bountiful Utah

Got a telephone call from Ronda today.  She has gone back to Romney.  We are working on the beauty shop for Patricia.  It is looking good.  Larry's mother is going to get the covering for the floor.

February 6, 1984

Yesterday February 5, 1984 Russel was ordained a priest by his grandfather Wallace Walter Wilding.  Wallace gave him such a wonderful blessing.  He has a bishop that is interested in the boys.  He is a wonderful man, Bishop McConkie.  We called Ronda today.  She said they were doing fine.  We pray for their well being and that the children will be brought up in a home where there will be harmony and love.

February 15

We have been to Terreton and back to Larry and Patricia's today.  We stayed with Evelyn and Charles last night.  We want to stay here long enough to finish up the room for Patricia's beauty shop.  We had a nice trip down here.  The roads were good most of the way.  Yesterday while we were at Charles & Evelyn's it was a very rough blizzard, so we expected the roads to be bad but there were just spots that had drifted over the road.  Larry is still very ill.  He is working but not able to keep anything down.  He is vomiting a lot and in a lot of pain.

JANUARY 1984

January 8, 1984
Somewhere between Bountiful Utah and Idaho

So much has happened since the first of December, it is hard to know where to begin.  Larry got along well after his surgery but he did not continue to improve.  He has not been able to eat and his stomach has been so distended.  He has vomited a lot and he is so discouraged.  He went to the doctor Thursday and the doctor said he had an obstruction in his colon.  He told Larry that he was going to have a colostomy.  It is so scary because he has been sick for such a long time.  When we were there a month ago Ronda called from Canada and said she had had an accident.  She had been putting lights on her home for Christmas and fell.  She fell about 20 feet.  She broke her pelvis in two places and broke her wrist.  Her wrist is a very bad break and she will be in a cast for 6 months.  When she called she told us that she needed us.  We decided if she needed us that was where we should be.  We got to Canada a week before Christmas.  We went to the hospital first and Ronda told us that Romney was very unhappy that we were there.  Ronda was so happy to see us.  She cried and loved us, so to us that was the important thing.  She started to improve after we came.  With some persuasion Rom was nice to us and we had Christmas at the hospital with Ronda.  Santa came to the hospital and the staff were all so nice.  The kids had fun and that was important to us.  We had Christmas dinner at the hospital.  A Christmas we are not about to forget.  When Christmas was over we headed back home.  We had good roads both ways.  We stayed with LaVar & Brenda until after New Year's and then we went to Bountiful, Utah.  On the way we stopped at Blair & Philline's, Darwin & Charlene's and Charles & Evelyn's.  We stayed with Charles & Evelyn all night.  Darwin & Charlene and Wallace and I went out to supper.  It was very nice.  Mark & Tammy and new baby Wallace Michael were at Charles.  He is such a beautiful baby.  He is our second great grand child.  When we got to Larry & Patricia's Wallace worked on the room that was to be Patricia's beauty shop.  He got it ready to paint.  Ronda called and said she needed us to help her get her divorce from Rom.  This is a scary trip because he was angry at us before.  No matter how this turns out we will be the villains.  She is a battered wife and the situation is impossible.  When we were at Patricia's there was so much snow and ice that the big trees in front of the house were all broken and split.  It was so slick that it was impossible to keep your footing.  Yesterday Jan 7th Patty Lynnel Christensen was baptized by her grandfather Wallace Walter Wilding.  It was beautiful.  After the baptism she was confirmed by Wallace Walter Wilding.  Larry's mother Phyllis Christensen was at the baptism.  It was a very special day.  Lynnel is a very special little girl.

January 17, 1984
Somewhere between Cardston Canada and and the Canadian border

We stayed overnight and then came on to Canada.  The roads were good and there was no snow in Cardston.  We went to see Ronda at the hospital.  She was ready to leave the hospital the next day.  We stayed with Brother & Sister Harker overnight and had supper with Amy Cahoon and husband and family.  They were so good to us.  One of Ronda's friends helped us move the things that she absolutely needed.  Ronda got the two kids out of school and then we found out that Rom had found out that we were in Cardston and had picked up Mark.  Rom came and got Ronda and they went and talked to the bishop.  They decided to try again.  We stayed with Rom and Ronda for four days.  Last night Ronda made a special supper and a birthday cake for Wallace on his 68th birthday.  It was very nice and we appreciated it very much. 

January 25, 1984
Bountiful, Utah

On January 18 when we got to Brenda's Ronda called and said after we left Rom was very angry and told her off.  She decided that she could not take what she had been through and the way he acted that evening, he was not going to change.  So she went to Lethbridge and stayed four days then she came back to Cardston.  She called a couple of nights ago and said he had been giving her a rough time.  We have not heard since how she has been doing.  We have been in Utah because Larry has been in the hospital and also because it has been so much warmer here.  I went to the doctor today.  He seems to think that I am low on calcium again.  I had a mammogram today too.  The doctor is going to call tomorrow or next day and tell me about medication.  Larry came home from the hospital today.  It seemed so good to have him home again.  It has been thawing all day.  Every thing is so white it would seem good to see the ground again. 

Thursday, August 24, 2017

JANUARY 1983

January 11
Apache Junction Arizona

Patricia called last night to tell us that Larry is in the hospital.  Wish that we were there so we could be of some moral support.  We pray that he will be well and strong again.  He is such a special man.  Bill & Phyllis, Bud and Ada have been here for several days.  It was so nice to have them here.  Phyllis is not very well and she will go into the hospital to have her hip operated on when they return to Idaho.  Ida is getting around some but she is still in a lot of pain.  We pray for her recovery.


April 5, 1983
Arizona

We left Apache Junction about 4:30 a.m. and just stopped for breakfast at Wickenberg, Arizona.  When we left to Las Vegas we called Phil and Marion Wiser.  We are going out on the town.  We stopped at Hover Dam and went on the tour.  It was so impressive.  It was fabulous.  Wallace and I have been teaching a teacher's development class in the Sunday School.  We tried to go to the temple once a week.  We enjoyed that very much.  I have been very tied down because Ida was not well.  She has improved so much since we arrived.  She has been getting around very well.  They will be on their way home in about a month.  Wallace has been studying about insurance and hopes to pass his insurance exam when he gets to Idaho.


May 12, 1983
Terreton

When we left Las Vegas we went to Salt Lake and stayed with Larry and Patricia for almost a month.  Larry is in pain all of the time because of this they have decided to have another surgery on his stomach.  Before the surgery the ward had a fast for those who were ill.  Larry & Patricia and family went to the Relief Society room where all the people who had been fasting met and had prayer together.  We were there too.  After the prayer the Bishop and counselors also their home teachers took them into the Bishop's office and gave Larry a priesthood blessing.  The bishop gave him the blessing.  It was beautiful.  He promised Larry that if he would live the gospel he would be well.  He promised him that he would receive blessings that could not be comprehended.  He said he would be able to take his family to the temple and that his children would be missionaries.  That they would have joy in this life and in the life to come. His surgery went well.  The doctor was pleased with the way the surgery turned out.  We left Salt Lake before Larry got out of the hospital but he was doing well.  We left Friday morning and drove to Pocatello.  We visited with Darwin & Charlene.  Mary Ellen had the chicken pox.  Darwin likes his work and seems to be doing very well.  They had bought a saw and other equipment for making things out of wood.  Darwin was excited about this.  The children are fine.  We visited with Charles and Evelyn and Family.  We saw Mark but did not see Tammy.  Mark looked good.  He had gained some weight.  We then came to Terreton Idaho.  LaVar and Brenda had their little boy blessed Sunday morning.  They named him Tyler Wayne Summers.  He is a beautiful baby.  He has a lot of dark hair and very dark eyes, a round face.  He is a very perfect little boy.  LaVar blessed his little boy.  We stayed with LaVar & Brenda for a couple of night, then we came here to our two room home.  It is comfortable.  The weather has been cold.  It snowed night before last and yesterday was cold and windy.

September 28, 1983

Daddy is with Uncle Don.  He wanted some help so he went to Island Park to help him with some plumbing.  We just had a wonderful weekend.  Darwin's Jared was baptized and confirmed.  We went to Pocatello for the baptism and stayed overnight so we could be there for the confirmation.  On Sunday morning a Brother Murdock from the Stake came over and talked to Darwin & Charlene.  Then made an appointment to talk with them at church.  He was from the High Counsel.  He asked Darwin if he would be secretary of the Elder's Quorum.  Darwin accepted.  We were so pleased.  Charles & his family were at church.  Blair and Philline and family were there.  We had 16 grandchildren at the sacrament meeting.  When Darwin was set apart there was Charles, Mark, Daren, Lore, Tommy, Blair and Philline, David, Charlene, Jeff, Gloreen and Wallace and I.  James stayed home with the little ones.  It was so very special.  The counselor of the stake presidency gave him such a wonderful blessing.  The man that gave him the blessing was his former bishop.   In July we had a Fullmer reunion at Alden's place.  It was so very special.  Freda & Harold, Velma & Jack, Verlan & Janet and daughter.  Velma & Jack's daughter Janet and her children Darcy & Jason were there.  Our daughter Brenda and her husband LaVar and children, Kevin, Vonell, Kim, Kirk, Kelly, Jake and Tyler were there.  Alden had tables set up and we had so much food.  We had a very good visit.  It was so perfect.  My cousin Theo and his wife Betty came for a while.  My Uncle Fremont and Aunt Golda came after most everyone had gone.  They were so disappointed that they had not come sooner.  Blair & Philline and family came late too.  They came from Montana.  They had Joddi, David, & Wendy.  Dorsel and Birdie were there also.  Before we left Harold and Freda invited Wallace and I to go to Washington with them.  Jack & Velma were going so we could come back with them.  Wallace said there were so many things that he wanted to do at home so he would not go.  I went with them.  It was the most wonderful week.  It would have been just perfect if Wallace had been with us.  We went over LoLo Pass.  It was such a beautiful drive.  We all stayed at a beautiful place called Three Rivers.  We walked, visited and ate together at the camp.  The next day we went on to Kennewick.  We spent the first night with Billy & Fern.  Fern had been having trouble with her eye.  She had had a detached retina.  She had surgery on it, now it was bleeding.  She had not come to the reunion because of it.  It was so wonderful for all four sisters to be together.  We spent a whole week together!.  We all went to Harold and Freda's cabin and then on to Mt. St. Helen's.  What a trip!  Harold and Freda are perfect hosts.  They were so wonderful to us.  On the way back home we stayed over night with Blair & Philline.  The whole week was just perfect.  Wallace met us in Leadore.  Jack and Velma stayed with Ron and Janet their daughter.  We came home by way of Dubois.  We rode and visited, had dinner in Dubois and had a very enjoyable time together.  It was so good to be together again.  I love him so very much.


October 5, 1983
Terreton Id

Today was a very special day!  This morning I went to Sara Simmons and got lunch for her and Ted.  We then went to town.  Wallace went to see if they were working on the truck.  They were working on it.  We had pizza for lunch and then we went to the temple.  Lorin was going to get his endowment.  Wallace was his escort.  Mark & Tammy were there, also Daren and three of their friends.  Young fellows.  Blair & Philline were there.  It was so wonderful to be together in the temple, just perfect.  The session was small, it was very nice.  Our hearts were so full of joy and happiness.  Lorin will make a wonderful missionary!  After the temple session we all went to the Arctic Circle and that was so enjoyable.  We got to visit and enjoy the food.  Like I said. "A very special day!"

October 23, 1983

Sunday October 23 a great tragedy came to our country.  We had marines stationed in Lebanon as a peace keeping force.  A truck loaded with explosives drove into the building where the marines were sleeping.  Two hundred and more men were killed and many wounded.
Tuesday Oct. 25 President Ronald Reagan sent marines to a small island off the coast of Florida.  Castro from the Cuban island was building up a military base.  The island was Grenada.  At this time eight men have been killed, eight missing and many wounded.  On the island were about 600 medical students from the United States.  Many as they landed and got out of the plane that brought them to the United States kissed the ground.  Last night President Reagan addresses the nation.  His closing remarks were "God bless the American people!  God bless America!  We are going to have to fight for the gospel and also our freedoms.  God Bless America!

October 30, 1983

Today we went to Pocatello to see and hear Lorin Wilding have his farewell before he leaves for Alaskan mission.  We took Kevin & Kim & Vonell with us.  LaVar was ordained a High Priest today at Stake Conference in Roberts.  Charles, Evelyn, Mark, Daren and Lorin talked.  They all did so well.  Shalene sang a song.  She sang so very well.  She has a lovely voice.  Evelyn said she loves to sing.  After the meeting we had a meal together.  Charles & Evelyn's house is so small, ( the front room & kitchen) they rented a place.  It was so very nice.  So many children, it was hard to believe.  It seemed most of them were under the age of six.  Evelyn's brothers and sisters were there, also her father and mother.  Bro & sister Thomas Smuin.  Bro. Smuin was in a wheelchair.  He is not very well.  On October 28 it was about 5 minutes after 8 a.m.  I was drawing some water for a bath.  Wallace called me with urgency.  I ran to him and the bed was shaking and the light was swinging.  He said we are having an earthquake.  It centered in Challis & Mackay Idaho.  Two six year old children were walking to school and a front of a building fell on them.  They were killed.  Huge rocks rolled off the mountain and into town.  One rock crushed through a wall and settled in a kitchen.  On T.V. they showed other rocks as large as a car in people's yards.  Ronda called from Carston Canada to see if we were all right.  She said they felt the quake there.  Hunters are still stranded in the hills but they have not found anyone that was killed or injured.  They showed pictures of Mackay and Challis and the towns were in shambles.  Prophesy is being fulfilled under our very eyes!

November 27, 1983
Bountiful Utah

Dearest family, we were all together but Charles, Ronda, & Glade families.  We were at Patricia's.  She had 36 for Thanksgiving.  It was so much fun.  So much food and so very enjoyable.  Just perfect.  Larry's mother was here.  We had such an enjoyable visit.
Brenda & LaVar & family went home in a snow storm but they made it home fine.  They said the roads were good until they got just off the junction just 12 miles from Mud Lake then the roads were a sheet of ice.
Glade & Penny called and we all got to talk to them.  They are fine.  Penny is expecting and I guess she is not feeling so well now.  Glade is doing fine in the air force.  He is also going to the university and doing fine there.
We have to go back home Wednesday to get the big truck and take it out to Blair.  There is a huge bill against it.  Hope we will be able to sell it so we can pay our bills and perhaps buy a mobile home.  We will have to see how things work out.

November 28, 1983

Today Larry was in so much pain.  He & Patricia went to the University of Utah hospital.  They put a tube down with mercury on the end to make it heavy.  When the tube gets stuck they will take X-rays.  They know where the obstructions are but they have to make double sure.  They are very discouraged, but he could not continue with so much pain.  Today is Monday and they will do surgery on Friday.  We pray that he will be fine and that Heavenly Father will bless him and his family.  They are all so concerned about him.  We love them so much.

December 1, 1983

Today Daddy went back to Idaho.  He had to see about the truck.  I was very worried because the weather was terrible.  It has been snowing and raining all day.  Wallace called this afternoon and said he had made it to Pocatello.  He said the road was bad part of the way.  Today I spent with Larry in the hospital.  He has a tube in his nose that goes into his stomach.  He is not bloated but it is still very sore.  He will be operated on in the morning.  They are going to put a rigid tube in and leave it about a week then they will remove it.  They hope it will keep the opening open long enough so it will not close off.  Larry is frightened and I don't blame him.  He is weak and thin and not very well at all.  May God bless him and bless the doctors so they can make him well.






Thursday, June 30, 2016

DECEMBER 1982

Apache Junction
December 21

On November 30 we started for Arizona.  It had been snowing hard and the roads were snow covered and slick.  Wallace decided we would be safer with chains on our tires.  We were taking the pickup down to Glade at Logan so we were driving the car and pickup too.  I drove the car to Idaho Falls.  By the time I got there, the chains were banging and I knew they were wore out.  Wallace had gone to Rexburg and met me in Idaho Falls.  The chains had wrapped around the axles and he could not get them off.  We had to take both back tires off and then use a hammer and tools to get them off.  He was working in about four inches of slush.  We were so cold and wet before we left Idaho Falls and headed to Pocatello.  We drove 20 miles and hour and sometimes slower.  The road was slick but it was also like going over a rocky road.  We stayed all night with Charles and Evelyn.  Mark is getting married on the 7th of December.  How we would like to stay!  I am so anxious to get out of the cold weather.  I worry about Wallace and the cold.  Wallace's sister Ida has also been very sick, they called to say they needed us very much.  We saw Darwin, Charlene and family.  They were fine.  We then left Pocatello and a few miles out of Pocatello we had bare roads and we never ran into any bad roads at all.  We stayed with Glade & Penny & Michael at Logan that night.  They were fine and excited about going into the Air Force January 17, 1983.  The next day we went to Larry & Patricia's.  We got stuck in their driveway.  We stayed all night and then went to my sisters, Velma & Jack Earl.  They were not at home.  We were disappointed because they were not there.  We went to St. George and we stopped to see my cousin Elnora Cheney.  She was still on her honeymoon.  We stayed that evening in Wickiup and then on to Ida & George's.  It was so good to be out of the snow.  Ida is doing better.  She has a long way to go but she is improving.  The day we got here Wallace's brother and wife got here.  Arnold & Mary.  We had such a nice visit with them.


December 28

Christmas has come and gone.  It was so very nice.  We had tapes and records of Christmas Carols.  We played them on Christmas Eve.  We talked and opened some gifts.  It was very special.  Each one of the children called us.  They all had a very nice Christmas.  Charles & Evelyn went to Darwin and Charlene's and they all called.  It was so good to hear their voices.  Evelyn said Mark & Tammy were there for Christmas.  She said their reception had turned out special.  That they were such a cute couple and seemed so happy.
Blair & Philline wrote several letter before the holidays.  They were spending Christmas in Idaho.  Patricia, Larry & the children all talked to us.  They sounded happy and good.
LaVar & Brenda said there was lots of snow in Terreton and that the wind had blown and that it was miserable.  They said they had a good Christmas and Jake talked to Grandpa.
Ronda called.  We talked to the kids too.  They were excited and Ronda seemed fine.
Glade & Penny called.  They were excited about the Air Force.  They had a special Christmas.
Two days before Christmas Wallace and I spent the day together.  AT first we went to the flea market, walked around a bit then we went to one of our favorite places and had lunch.  We then did some Christmas shopping.  Then we went to the Temple Information Center.  We saw some very special films and also the Christmas lights.  It was just a perfect day.  We are so grateful for the gospel and so proud to be a member in His Church.