We went to Mesa to attend some temple sessions. We got in Mesa about noon. Loye had to get some bids on glass for the front of Gene Hall's Toyota dealership in Show Low. We then went shopping at Mervyn's where I bought me 2 blouses to work in. We got Jason some pants and shirts and Loye some pants and a shirt (gray). Then we went to Dahl and Shelley's and visited for a while. Dahl got all cleaned up to go out to eat, and Jacob, who had been playing outside came running in the house, he looked at Dahl, stopped! Then he said, "Is today Sunday?" We thought he was pretty cute, but Dahl was sort of embarrassed. We went to Cisco's and ate Spanish food (it was really good.) We went to Motel 6 and got a room (as we were going to the temple early we didn't want to stay at Dahl's and wake them all up so early. We got to the temple about 6:30 am but had to wait for the 7 o'clock session. But we did do 2 sessions. Earnie and Sue Pettyjohn, Idell Solomon, Ruth Ozment, and Fernith Palmer besides Loye and I were all that was there from our ward, and it was our wards temple excursion. It is really a peaceful and rewarding feeling to go there.
We visited with Louise and Joe Woolford while we were there. She is Loye's cousin, a daughter of Aunt Violet Lewis. When we got out of the temple we ate lunch at "The King's Table." Then we went to the "Price Club" and bought some stuff for us and Roger. I got a new Price Club card with my picture on it.
We went back to Dahls and told them we were coming on home, but that we were first going by "Bud and Mary Jo Pearce", which we did. They weren't feeling to good. Bud had, had trouble with his heart and liver and had high blood pressure.
Last winter his hole family had been living with them, they had 15 to worry about feeding and although he would never complain I think it helped to bring on his problems. He is much better now and his children have all gone to places of their own. I'm glad we went by. They are always fun to visit with. We started on home and got as far as the Saguaro Lake turn off when our car started steaming, where Loye looked under the hood he found we had a break in the water hose. There we were in the middle of the desert (where you never go without taking water) and we had no water. Cars passed by. Finally a car load of boys stopped and here one came hot-footing it down the pavement without shoes on, to see if he could help, but they didn't have any water or tape (we could use to patch up our hose), so they went on their way. In a little while a man in an old convertible from Florida called and asked if we needed some water, Loye said we sure do, so he turned in and found in his supplies some electrical tape we used to patch our leaky hose and he gave us 3 gallons of water. We were soon on our way. We stopped once at a stream to fill the radiator clear up then went on to Payson. Loye phoned Ike Cook who came and took Loye to a place to buy a new hose then he helped Loye put it on the car. We went by Ike's house for a few minutes then came on up the hill. At Christopher Creek we stopped to eat, but because the Payson rodeo the cafe was packed. They told us it would be about 45 minutes before we could eat. So we came on up to Merzville where we stopped and had some good food, but the atmosphere was terrible. We came on home and got here about 10 p.m. Jason had stayed with Loyelin so we just left him over night, and picked him up in time for church the next morning. School started on the 23rd of Aug but we had to be to work on the 22nd. Time really flies it seems like school just let out. Kate, Maybelle, Aunt Ida and Linda Ellison will be working at the kitchen with me this year.
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