waiting for the new Pastor to arrive.

We continued the services at the church with Rachel helping me out on the weekends. I believe that the Siggelkows were staying in Regina also visiting family. Ernie most likely was ordained at this time. In the mean time that summer we had daily vacation Bible school. I visited some of the seniors in town. One I remember was Grandma Paterson, she needed encouragement to come to church since she had moved from the North country near the town of Kenton. Her daughter in law Barbara and her family of four, Jerry, Beatrice, Harvey & Barbie. I believe it was around this time that their grandpa Paterson had passed away. This family were a great help in the church. Barb later became one of my close friends. She would often pick grandma Paterson up for church. I would later be the one she asked to look after three of her brothers family in a time of their mothers ilness.

The Carin's family were musical for Cecil was our piano player when the Carin's couldn't get in. There were some very cold days he could not always get in due to road conditions. The summer after Max & I were engaged, he didn't have any cash to purchase a ring for me. He was doing most of the farming, as several of the family were still at home. Max often helped his mother and would milk a number of cows. She had many chickens & many other fowl to help bring in cash. All the men folks would help getting the fuel for their furnace, cook stove & heater by going to the bush areas on their farm to cut down trees for the years fuel, so it was a big job to get enough wood cut hauled then sawed ready to dry each summer for the cold winter in that part of Manitoba. All this plus the harvesting of their crop in the fall. Max was the mechanic in the family. I believe it was about this time a John Deer Tractor was bought to work the fields, a lot of the work was still done with horses. I was going to Regina to see my family so Max gave me enough money when I left to pick out a signet ring with MG to AL inscribed on it. That fall I help cook the food when they harvested his brother Elmers crop near Oak Lake which helped his mother who had lots of work at their farm north of Oak Lake.